Famous Proverbs

1] Intimacy lessens fame

2] When you do not know what to do – wait.

3] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

4] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

5] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

6] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

7] One father is more than a hundred school masters

8] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

9] Every beginning is hard

10] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

11] The biter is sometimes bit

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

13] Death alone can kill hope

14] The faulty stands on his guard

15] No flying without wings.

16] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

17] One sheep follows another

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

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

20] Nature will have her course

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

22] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

23] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

24] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

25] The cowl does not make the monk.

26] Christmas comes but once a year

27] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

28] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

29] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

30] Truth is god’s daughter

31] It takes all sorts to make a world

32] Two blacks do not make a white

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

34] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

35] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

36] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

37] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

38] Thrift is a great revenue

39] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

40] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

41] Advice when most needed is least heeded

42] An old ox makes a straight furrow

43] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

44] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

45] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

46] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

47] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

48] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

49] One swallow does not make a summer

50] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

51] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

52] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

53] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

54] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

55] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

56] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

57] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

58] Men do more things through habit than reason

59] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

60] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

61] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

62] Give a loan and buy quarrel

63] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

64] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

65] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

66] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

67] A good wife makes a good husband

68] Repentance comes too late

69] A little learning is dangerous thing

70] Beauty fades like a flower.

71] Cut your coat according to your cloth

72] Hitch your wagon to a star

73] Good ware makes quick market

74] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

75] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

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

77] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

78] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

79] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

80] Far from eye, far from heart

81] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

82] Man cannot live by bread alone

83] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

84] Desert and reward seldom keep company

85] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

86] A cat has nine lives

87] Never do evil that good may come of it

88] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

89] Accidents will happen

90] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

91] A good name is a rich heritage

92] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

93] All is fair in love and war

94] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

95] A soft answer turns away wrath

96] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

97] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

98] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

99] Prevention is better than cure

100] Easy come, easy go