Famous Proverbs

1] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

2] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

3] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

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

5] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

6] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

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

8] As soon as there is life there is danger

9] Men are known by the company they keep.

10] Misfortunes never come singly

11] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

12] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

13] They can do least two boast loudest

14] One is what one eats

15] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

16] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

17] One cannot put back the clock

18] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

19] Everyone to his taste

20] East or west, home is best

21] An evil life is a kind of death.

22] Cast not the first stone.

23] A man’s mother is his other God

24] Live and Learn

25] The wisest of the wise may err.

26] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

27] Honest is the best policy

28] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

29] What must be must be

30] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

31] He travels the fastest who travels alone

32] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

33] Do as I say, not as I do

34] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

35] The love of money is the root of all evil

36] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

37] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

38] All covet all lose.

39] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

40] He conquers who endures

41] Good words are worth much and cost little

42] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

43] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

44] Where there is whispering there is lying

45] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

46] Nature hates all sudden changes

47] What will not money do?

48] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

49] We live by laws, not by examples

50] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

51] Honest is the best policy

52] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

53] The hole calls the thief

54] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

55] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

56] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

57] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

58] The last drop makes the cup run over

59] Beauty fades like a flower.

60] Enough is enough

61] Money makes the man

62] A door must be either shut or open

63] The sign brings customers

64] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

65] Might is right

66] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

67] Good broth may be made in an old pot

68] Children learn to creep ere they can go

69] There is no rose without a thorn

70] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

71] A single rose does not mean spring

72] Gluttony kills more than the sword

73] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

74] The first blow is half the battle

75] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

76] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

77] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

78] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

79] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

80] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

81] It is not work that kills but worry

82] Through hardship to the stars

83] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

84] Never too late to repent

85] No wrong without a remedy

86] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

87] There’s always room at the top

88] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

89] A joke’s a very serious thing

90] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

91] Anger without power is folly

92] The exception proves the rule

93] Children should be seen and not heard

94] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

95] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

96] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

97] No convenience without its inconvenience

98] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

99] Idle folks have the least leisure

100] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand