Famous Proverbs

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

2] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

3] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

4] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

5] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

6] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

7] Forecast is better than work-hard

8] One of these days is none of these days

9] Men do more things through habit than reason

10] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

11] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

12] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

13] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

14] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

15] He that pities another remembers himself

16] You must grin and bear it

17] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

18] Loyalty is worth more than money

19] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

20] The road to hell is paved with good action

21] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

22] Slow but sure wins the race

23] Ambition makes people diligent

24] There is no royal road to learning

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

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

27] Love cannot be compelled

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

29] The falling drops hollow the stone

30] Men are not angles

31] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

32] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

33] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

34] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

35] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

36] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

37] The thing which is rare is dear

38] Crows are all completely black

39] Money has no smell

40] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

41] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

42] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

43] The resolved mind has no cares

44] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

45] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

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

47] He conquers who endures

48] The end makes all equal

49] It takes a wise man to be a fool

50] Woes unite foes

51] Cleanliness is next to godliness

52] Few words are best

53] Clothes do not make the man

54] A good Conscience is the best divinity

55] When bees area old, they yield n honey

56] Every oak has been an acorn

57] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

58] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

59] One hand washes the other

60] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

61] Man punishes the action but God the intention

62] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

63] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

64] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

65] Grasp all, lose all

66] Shrouds have no pockets

67] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

68] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

69] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

70] That which Nature paints never fades

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

72] Let sleeping dogs lie

73] He stands not surely that never slips

74] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

75] He that pities another remembers himself

76] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

77] Strength grows stronger by being tried

78] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

79] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

80] Cheap is dear in the long run.

81] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

82] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

83] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

84] Who suffers much is silent

85] Custom makes all things easy

86] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

87] A little help is worth a deal of pity

88] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

89] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

90] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

91] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

92] He that repairs not a part, builds all

93] Dead dogs bark not

94] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

95] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

96] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

97] Beware of him who makes thee presents

98] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

99] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

100] The early man ever borrows from the late man