Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make a crab walk straight

2] Example is the greatest of all seducers

3] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

4] A jack of all traders is master of none

5] Lavishness is not generosity

6] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

7] It will be the same a hundred years hence

8] What’s in a name?

9] Waste is not grandeur

10] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

11] Hear twice before you speak once

12] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

13] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

14] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

15] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

16] There is no place like home

17] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

18] A good wife is a good prize

19] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

20] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

21] All truths are not to be told

22] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

23] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

24] He who hesitates is lost

25] Ill gotten, ill spent

26] Mirth is the sugar of life

27] All doors open to courtesy

28] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

29] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

30] The age of miracles is past

31] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

32] Put out your tubs when it is raining

33] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

34] Full of courtesy, full of craft

35] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

36] Books and friends should be few but good

37] Waste not, want not

38] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

39] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

40] A straight stick is crooked in water

41] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

42] Bare walls make giddy housewives

43] Put not the bucket too often in the well

44] Comparisons are odious

45] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

46] Rats know the ways of rats

47] An evil life is a kind of death.

48] Exchange is no robbery

49] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

50] Dumb men get no lands

51] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

52] An obedient wife commands her husband

53] No man is infallible

54] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

55] Better a bare foot than none

56] Let like mate with like

57] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

58] There is truth in wine

59] It is not work that kills but worry

60] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

61] Like breeds like

62] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

63] No man is indispensable

64] Tomorrow never comes

65] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

66] There is none misfortune cannot reach

67] The weakest goes to the wall

68] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

69] Learn not and know not

70] Bad excuses are worse than none.

71] Money refused loses its brightness

72] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

73] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

74] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

75] Evil to him who evil thinks.

76] No feast lasts forever.

77] One kindness is the price of another

78] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

79] Stolen goods never thrive

80] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

81] The envious man shall never want woe

82] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

83] Revenge is sweet

84] Every dog is valiant at his won door

85] Never too late to repent

86] First impressions are half the battle

87] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

88] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

89] Well begun is half done.

90] Virtue carries a lean purse

91] Fine feathers make fine birds.

92] Suffering does not manifest itself

93] The dog that fetches, will carry.

94] Homo is a common name to all men.

95] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

96] Ill news comes apace.

97] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

98] Haste makes waste

99] One must be a servant before one can be a master

100] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one