Famous Proverbs

1] Good is good but better carries it

2] It is ill striving against the stream

3] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

4] One cannot put back the clock

5] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

6] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

7] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

8] You never know what you can do till you try

9] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

10] The end crowns the work.

11] Love will find a way

12] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

13] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

14] He knows most who speaks least

15] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

16] He stands not surely that never slips

17] Virtue is the only true nobility

18] A little body often harbours a great soul

19] He who begins many things, finishes but few

20] Good broth may be made in an old pot

21] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

22] Judge not the tree by its bark

23] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

24] Gossiping and lying go together

25] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

26] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

27] Great talkers are never great doers

28] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

29] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

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

31] The best of men are but men at best.

32] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

33] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

34] Example is better than precept

35] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

36] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

37] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

38] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

39] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

40] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

41] Enough is enough

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

43] Great actions speak minds

44] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

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

46] Respect is greater from a distance

47] Soon gotten, soon spent

48] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

49] Dead men tell no tales

50] Every why has a wherefore

51] Wine is the best broom for trouble

52] Love me, love my dog

53] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

54] The early bird catches the worm

55] It is best to be on the safe side

56] Stolen sweets are sweeter

57] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

58] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

59] Love turns pimples

60] The hand that gives, gathers

61] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

62] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

63] No remedy but patience

64] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

65] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

66] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

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

68] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

69] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

70] No one betrays himself by silence

71] Idle folks have the least leisure

72] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

73] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

74] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

75] Variety is charming

76] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

77] Bad luck often brings good luck

78] You know what you can do till you try.

79] A good paymaster needs no surety

80] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

81] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

82] Never hit a man when he’s down

83] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

84] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

85] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

86] Truth is god’s daughter

87] There is nothing like being on the safe side

88] All our pomp the earth covers

89] One man’s means another man’s poison

90] Men are not to be measured in inches

91] Better be safe than sorry

92] Words are but wind

93] There is truth in wine

94] There is no blindness like ignorance

95] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

96] The end makes all equal

97] A merchant that gains not, loses

98] Necessity breaks iron

99] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

100] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)