Famous Proverbs

1] Call no man happy till he is dead

2] Even Homer sometimes nods

3] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

4] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

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

6] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

7] Virtue is the only true nobility

8] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

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

10] One fool praises another

11] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

12] Love can find a way

13] The Pen is mightier than the sword

14] A beggar can never be bankrupt

15] Dog does not eat dog

16] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

17] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

18] Too much hope deceives

19] If you want peace, prepare for war

20] Without luck, it is better not to be born

21] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

22] The king can do no wrong

23] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

24] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

25] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

26] Birds of a feather flock together

27] There is nothing that costs less than civility

28] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

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

30] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

31] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

32] As long lives a merry man as a sad

33] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

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

35] Better unborn than untaught

36] A great city, a great solitude

37] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

38] When angry, count a hundred

39] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

40] Danger makes men devout

41] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

42] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

43] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

44] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

45] A word is enough to the wise

46] A bad workman always blames his tools

47] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

48] A good lather is half the shave

49] As long lives a merry man as a sad

50] What everybody says must be true

51] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

52] A little is better than none

53] Forewarned is forearmed

54] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

55] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

56] The last drop makes the cup run over

57] Union (or Unity) is strength

58] It is easier to pull down than to build

59] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

60] First thrive then wive

61] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

62] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

63] Every advantage has its disadvantage

64] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

65] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

66] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

67] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

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

69] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

70] Too much money makes one mad

71] Facts are stubborn things

72] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

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

74] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

75] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

76] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

77] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

78] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

79] Eat to live and not live to eat.

80] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

81] Business is business

82] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

83] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

84] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

85] You can’t clap with one hand

86] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

87] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

88] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

89] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

90] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

91] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

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

93] Share and share alike

94] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

95] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

96] Those near the temple deride the gods

97] He who never was sick dies the first fit

98] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

99] There is no rose without a thorn

100] Light burden I heavy if far borne