Famous Proverbs

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

2] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

3] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

4] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

5] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

6] Like breeds like

7] Do not limp before the lame

8] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

10] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

11] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

12] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

13] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

14] Health is great riches

15] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

16] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

17] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

18] Misery loves company.

19] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

20] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

21] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

22] It is ill jesting with edged tools

23] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

24] Great trees keep down the little ones

25] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

26] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

27] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

28] Let the buyer beware

29] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

30] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

31] He that has an ill name is half hanged

32] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

33] See how the wind blows

34] From small beginnings come great things

35] Silence is golden

36] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

37] He that does most at once, does least

38] The best wine comes from an old vessel

39] Truth is stranger than fiction

40] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

41] Wrong has no warrant

42] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

43] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

44] Laughter makes good blood

45] One must howl with the wolves

46] Curiosity killed the cat.

47] Advise none to marry or to go to war

48] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

49] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

50] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

51] Dogs bark as they are bred.

52] A hungry man is angry man

53] He who does no good, does evil enough

54] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

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

56] A bully never grows up.

57] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

58] Expectation is better than realisation

59] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

60] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

61] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

62] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

63] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

64] A man’s wealth is his enemy

65] The king can do no wrong

66] Silence is a woman’s best garment

67] Live and let live

68] He that repairs not a part, builds all

69] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

70] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

71] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

72] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

73] The best wine comes from an old vessel

74] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

75] Failure teaches success

76] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

77] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

78] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

79] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

80] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

81] The Pen is mightier than the sword

82] No man is infallible

83] Wash your dirty linen at home

84] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

85] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

86] No misfortune will go on forever

87] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

88] Every commodity has its discommodity

89] He that eats least eats most

90] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

91] Everything in moderation.

92] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

93] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

94] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

95] Better eye sore than al blind

96] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

97] Flesh is frail

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

99] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

100] The early man ever borrows from the late man