Famous Proverbs

1] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

2] Better eye sore than al blind

3] Never grieve for what you cannot help

4] Call a spade a spade

5] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

6] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

7] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

8] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

9] All things are easy, that are done willingly

10] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

11] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

12] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

13] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

14] No man can serve two masters

15] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

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

17] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

18] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

19] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

20] Youth and age will never agree

21] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

22] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

23] It is too late to call back yesterday

24] Wise men do not argue with idiots

25] How forceful are right words

26] Where there are reeds, there is water

27] Take heed is a fair thing

28] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

29] Fair exchange is no robbery

30] Stolen goods never thrive

31] Extremity of right is wrong

32] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

33] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

34] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

35] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

36] Young saint, old devil.

37] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

38] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

39] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

40] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

41] Precepts may lead but examples draw

42] Easier said than done

43] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

44] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

45] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

46] Self-praise is no recommendation

47] One thief will not rob another

48] Expectation is better than realisation

49] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

50] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

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

52] Once a knave, always a knave

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

54] Love will find a way

55] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

56] Time has wings

57] Never too late to repent

58] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

59] Step by step the ladder is ascended

60] Nothing is given so freely as advice

61] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

62] Small is beautiful

63] There are spots even in the sun

64] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

65] Great minds think alike

66] The last suitor wins the maid

67] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

68] Hasty work, double work,

69] Nature abhors a vacuum

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

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

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

73] Little by little and bit by bit.

74] Truth conquers all things

75] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

76] If one will not, another will

77] He that knows little often repeats it

78] One reason is as good as fifty

79] There is no rose without a thorn

80] No man is infallible

81] A good drink makes the old young

82] The good intention excuses the bad action

83] The money you refuse will never do you good

84] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

85] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

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

87] All roads lead to Rome

88] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

89] Live and let live

90] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

91] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

92] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

93] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

94] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

95] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

96] Never buy a pig in a poke

97] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

98] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

99] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

100] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick