Famous Proverbs

1] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

2] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

3] The dog is a lion in his own house

4] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

5] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

6] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

7] Light grows the burden which is well borne

8] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

9] What the king wills, that the law wills

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

11] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

12] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

13] Virtue is its own reward

14] There’s always room at the top

15] Pursuits become habits

16] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

17] It is ill jesting with edged tools

18] None but the brave deserves the fair

19] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

20] As you brew, so shall you drink.

21] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

22] The sign brings customers

23] Live and let live

24] Old vessels must leak

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

26] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

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

28] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

29] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

30] Variety is charming

31] Lovers are madmen

32] You never know what you can do till you try

33] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

34] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

35] The receiver is as bad as the thief

36] It takes all sorts to make a world

37] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

38] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

39] Kingdoms divided soon fall

40] He who demands does not command

41] Two blacks do not make a white

42] There is truth in wine

43] Quickly come, quickly go

44] Don’t cry stinking fish

45] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

46] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

47] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

48] A good wife is a good prize

49] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

50] Things past cannot be recalled

51] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

52] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

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

54] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

55] Never do evil that good may come of it

56] Failure teaches success

57] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

58] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

59] Shrouds have no pockets

60] Will is no skill

61] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

62] Money is the sinews of war

63] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

64] The devil dances in an empty pocket

65] Waste makes wants

66] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

67] A rolling stone gathers no moss

68] Experience must be bought

69] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

70] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

71] It takes two to make a quarrel

72] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

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

74] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

75] The end crowns the work.

76] Learn to walk before you run

77] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

78] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

79] Don’t cry stinking fish

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

81] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

82] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

83] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

84] Many drops make a shower

85] Anything will fit a naked man.

86] It takes all sorts to make a world

87] Young saint, old devil.

88] All cats are grey in the dark

89] Thrift is a great revenue

90] Honest is the best policy

91] He travels the fastest who travels alone

92] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

93] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

94] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

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

96] Idle folks have the least leisure

97] What is a workman without his tools?

98] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

99] A fool and his money are soon parted

100] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.