Famous Proverbs

1] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

2] Bold men have generous hearts

3] Gold will not buy everything

4] Alms never make poor

5] Little wealth, little care

6] Laws were made to be broke

7] The eye is bigger than the belly

8] He that praises himself, spatters himself

9] The best things in life are free

10] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

11] Weak things united become strong

12] Some are wise and some are otherwise

13] Little pitchers have big ears.

14] It’s dogged that does it

15] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

16] Evil to him who evil thinks.

17] The resolved mind has no cares

18] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

19] Failure teaches success

20] Second thoughts are best

21] The course of true love never did run smooth

22] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

23] You can’t tell a book by its cover

24] The labourer is worthy of his hire

25] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

26] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

27] A little body often harbours a great soul

28] Gluttony kills more than the sword

29] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

30] Too much hope deceives

31] Content is better than riches

32] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

33] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

34] If you want peace, prepare for war

35] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

36] He that has a wife, has strife

37] Don’t play with fire

38] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

39] Every little helps

40] No cross, no crown

41] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

42] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

43] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

44] Don’t kick against the pricks

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

46] The devil dances in an empty pocket

47] When bees area old, they yield n honey

48] No convenience without its inconvenience

49] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

50] The game is not worth the candle

51] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

52] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

53] Wine unveils the words of the heart

54] Stolen goods never thrive

55] All truths are not to be told

56] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

57] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

58] Every groom is a king at home

59] Least said, soonest mended

60] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

61] Every dog is valiant at his won door

62] Between two stools you fall to the ground

63] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

64] Evil to him who evil thinks.

65] Great hopes make great men

66] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

67] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

68] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

69] He that desires but little has no deed of much

70] The best of friends must part

71] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

72] Seek and you shall find

73] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

74] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

75] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

76] He who hesitates is lost

77] It is best to be on the safe side

78] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

79] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

80] Children and fools cannot lie.

81] A light purse makes a heavy heart

82] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

83] Hasty work, double work,

84] An honest good look covers many faults.

85] A friend is easier lost than found

86] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

87] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

88] He that can stay. Obtains

89] Well done is better than well said

90] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

91] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

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

93] Fair exchange is no robbery

94] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

95] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

96] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

97] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

98] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

99] Like mistress, like maid

100] A man may learn wit every day.