Famous Proverbs

1] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

2] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

3] The longest journey starts with a single step

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

5] All meat pleases not all mouths

6] The devil is not as black as he is painted

7] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

8] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

9] Prospect is often better than possession

10] Ill luck is good for something

11] A true friend is forever a friend

12] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

13] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

14] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

15] The longest way round is the shortest way home

16] There is nothing permanent except change

17] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

18] What is money to a cat?

19] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

20] An old fox is not easily snared

21] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

22] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

23] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

24] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

25] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

26] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

27] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

28] He that knows little often repeats it

29] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

30] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

31] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

32] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

33] He that sows virtue reaps fame

34] It costs more to do ill than to do well

35] Success has many friends

36] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

37] Nature will have her course

38] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

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

40] Words cut more than swords

41] Better an apple given than eaten

42] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

43] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

44] It is ill striving against the stream

45] Dreams are lies

46] Even a worm will turn

47] Respect is greater from a distance

48] Take heed is a fair thing

49] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

50] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

51] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

52] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

53] What is the mother of industry

54] Go while the going is good

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

56] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

57] Like mistress, like maid

58] Barking dogs seldom bite

59] Silence is also speech

60] A healthy man is a successful man

61] The good die young.

62] We are all Adam’s children

63] The word is far him who has patience

64] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

65] Big fish eat little fish

66] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

67] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

68] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

69] An old horse knows the route

70] Easy come, easy go

71] Every man praises his own wares

72] At open doors, dogs come in

73] No man is a hero to his valet

74] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

75] The belly carries the legs

76] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

77] The day obliterates the promise of the might

78] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

79] The tailor makes the man

80] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

81] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

82] All’s fair in love and war

83] He has not lost all who has one cast left

84] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

85] Findings are keepings

86] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

87] A merchant that gains not, loses

88] All lay loads on a willing horse

89] A true friend is forever a friend

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

91] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

92] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

93] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

94] Soon gotten, soon spent

95] The dog that fetches, will carry.

96] The best things in life are free

97] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

98] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

99] Better be alone than in bad company

100] There is no tree but bears some fruit