Famous Proverbs

1] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

2] Birds of a feather flock together

3] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

4] Liars should have good memories

5] Expectation is better than realisation

6] Ambition loses many a man

7] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

8] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

9] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

10] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

11] Better the foot slip than the tongue

12] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

13] Content is better than riches

14] Whatever man has done, man can do

15] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

16] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

17] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

18] They are rich who have true friends

19] Honesty is the best policy

20] Marriages are made in heaven

21] Where there’s a will there’s a way

22] Might overcome right.

23] He that has an ill name is half hanged

24] Don’t meet trouble half-way

25] A healthy man is a successful man

26] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

27] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

28] It takes two to make a quarrel

29] Adventures are to be adventurous

30] More haste, less speed

31] Give a loan and buy quarrel

32] Much law but little justice

33] There are spots even in the sun

34] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

35] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

36] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

37] Two blacks do not make a white

38] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

39] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

40] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

41] Give the devil his due

42] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

43] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

44] Of three main roads, take the middle one

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

46] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

47] What everybody says must be true

48] Care brings grey hair.

49] Learn not and know not

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

51] Prove your friend ere you have need

52] Borrowed garments never fit well

53] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

54] Either mend or end

55] Cut your coat according to your cloth

56] Learning is the eye of the mind

57] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

58] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

59] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

60] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

61] Lookers-on see most of the game

62] Truth conquers all things

63] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

64] Good hand, good hire

65] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

66] Brevity is the soul of wit

67] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

68] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

69] Let bygones be bygones

70] Findings are keepings

71] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

72] History repeats itself

73] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

74] Books and friends should be few but good

75] Waste not, want not

76] All that glitters is not gold

77] Old cattle breed not

78] Precepts may lead but examples draw

79] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

80] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

81] Necessity knows no law

82] One is never too old to learn

83] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

84] Sorrow will pay no debt

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

86] Great minds think alike

87] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

88] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

89] The beaten road is the safest

90] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

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

92] Nothing seek, nothing find

93] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

94] Fish and guests smell in three days

95] None can guess the jewel by the casket

96] Law makers should not be law breakers

97] Suffering does not manifest itself

98] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

99] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

100] Have two strings to your bow