Famous Proverbs

1] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

2] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

3] An army marches on its stomach

4] Erring is not heating

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

6] God arms the harmless

7] Come with the wind, got with the water

8] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

9] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

10] It is too late to look up after you have collided

11] Easier said than done

12] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

13] First think, and then speak

14] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

15] He that is absent is soon forgotten

16] Love will go through stone walls

17] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

18] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

19] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

20] Abundance, like want, ruins many

21] Heaven helps those who help themselves

22] Children should be seen and not heard

23] Bad luck often brings good luck

24] Lose a leg rather than a life

25] The best fish swim near the bottom

26] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

27] He who sows, trusts in God

28] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

29] Great trees keep down the little ones

30] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

31] No like is the same.

32] Exchange is no robbery

33] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

34] He that has no money needs no purse

35] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

36] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

37] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

38] Familiarity breeds contempt

39] There is no smoke without fire

40] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

41] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

42] Nature is the true law

43] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

44] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

45] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

46] Too long burden makes weary bones

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

48] Learning is the eye of the mind

49] Take things as they come

50] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

51] Rich folk have many friends

52] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

53] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

54] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

55] It is not every question that deserves an answer

56] Christmas comes but once a year

57] Eat to live and not live to eat.

58] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

59] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

60] Better an open enemy than a false friend

61] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

62] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

63] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

64] The early man ever borrows from the late man

65] It is well to live that one may learn

66] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

67] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

68] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

69] Books and friends should be few but good

70] What is money to a cat?

71] Everything comes to him who waits

72] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

73] The pen is the tongue of the hand

74] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

75] Pleasing ware is half sold

76] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

77] A wicked man is his own hell

78] Example, is better than precept

79] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

80] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

81] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

82] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

83] Ready money is a ready remedy

84] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

85] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

86] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

87] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

88] Strength grows stronger by being tried

89] Tigers and deer do not over.

90] Penny and penny laid up will be many

91] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

92] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

93] Words are but wind

94] Too much cunning undoes

95] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

96] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

97] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

98] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

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

100] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another