Famous Proverbs

1] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

2] A bully is always a coward

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

4] Home is where the heart is

5] Strike while the iron is hot

6] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

7] One is never too old to learn

8] Do right and fear no man

9] All doors open to courtesy

10] Many a true word is spoken in jest

11] The great fish eat up the small

12] Diamond cuts diamond

13] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

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

15] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

16] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

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

18] In the land of hope there is never any winter

19] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

20] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

21] Money isn’t everything

22] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

23] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

24] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

25] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

26] Birds once snared fear all bushes

27] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

28] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

29] Shrouds have no pockets

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

31] Nothing seek, nothing find

32] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

33] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

34] Save your breath to cool the porridge

35] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

36] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

37] Train the child in the way he should go.

38] Might overcome right.

39] Experience is the mother of wisdom

40] The ass that brays most eats

41] Far from eye, far from heart

42] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

43] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

44] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

45] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

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

47] There is a black sheep in every flock

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

49] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

50] Death does not recognize strength

51] The fairest silk is soonest stained

52] A good garden may have some ill weeds

53] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

54] When the cat is away, the mice will play

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

56] Erring is not heating

57] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

58] It is all in the day’s work

59] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

60] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

61] Names and natures do often agree

62] Truth conquers all things

63] Plain dealing is best

64] A man may learn wit every day.

65] Often and little eating makes a man fat

66] Wise men are caught in wiles

67] Many drops make a shower

68] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

69] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

70] The exception proves the rule

71] A little learning is dangerous thing

72] God helps those who help themselves

73] Marriage is a lottery

74] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

75] Every dog has his (its) day

76] Live and let live

77] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

78] Youth and age will never agree

79] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

80] What may be done at any time is done at no time

81] It’s a long lane that has no turning

82] Big fish eat little fish

83] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

84] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

85] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

86] What everybody says must be true

87] Almost’ never killed a fly.

88] One can’t help many, but many can help one

89] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

90] No remedy but patience

91] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

92] No man is born wise or learned

93] Good fences make good neighbours

94] He that obey cannot command

95] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

96] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

97] Seeing is believing

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

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

100] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel