Famous Proverbs

1] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

2] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

3] A great city, a great solitude

4] Every dog is a lion at home

5] Covetousness brings nothing home

6] What is new cannot be true

7] A heavy purse makes a light heart

8] Expectation is better than realisation

9] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

10] All things are possible with god

11] Needs must when the evil drives

12] Beauty fades like a flower.

13] A rich man can do nothing wrong

14] All our pomp the earth covers

15] He knows the water best who has waded through it

16] There is no garden without its weeds

17] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

18] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

19] Strength grows stronger by being tried

20] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

21] Give credit where credit is due

22] Wine unveils the words of the heart

23] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

24] A man may learn wit every day.

25] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

26] Gold will not buy everything

27] Virtue is its own reward

28] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

29] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

30] Misery loves company.

31] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

32] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

33] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

34] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

35] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

36] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

37] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

38] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

39] There is no blindness like ignorance

40] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

41] It is not work that kills but worry

42] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

43] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

44] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

45] What is worth doing is worth doing well

46] There’s always room at the top

47] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

48] Fair play’s a jewel

49] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

50] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

51] Silence is golden

52] Content is better than riches

53] Like breeds like

54] Cut your coat according to your cloth

55] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

56] Delays are not denials

57] Curiosity killed the cat.

58] The labourer is worthy of his hire

59] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

60] Honesty is the best policy

61] Much meat, much malady

62] The best fish swim near the bottom

63] Necessity breaks iron

64] A useful trade is a mine of gold

65] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

66] Who greases his way travels easily

67] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

68] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

69] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

70] An old fox is not easily snared

71] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

72] Nearest the heart comes out first

73] Every shoe fits not every foot

74] Open confession is good for the soul

75] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

76] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

77] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

78] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

79] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

80] Great actions speak minds

81] In the end, things will mend

82] Desires are nourished by delays

83] Tigers and deer do not over.

84] A good word stills great anger

85] Give the devil his due

86] You never know your luck

87] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

88] Long absent, soon forgotten

89] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

90] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

91] All men are mortal

92] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

93] Many dishes make many diseases

94] Walls have ears

95] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

96] One may change the place but not the mind.

97] Silence gives (or means) consent

98] Never grieve for what you cannot help

99] Fine words dress ill deeds

100] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?