Famous Proverbs

1] Weapons breed peace

2] Better unborn than untaught

3] The wisest of the wise may err.

4] Two heads are better than one

5] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

6] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

7] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

8] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

9] A good name is sooner lost than won

10] Honour is the reward of virtue

11] A true man and a thief think not the same

12] Praise no man till he is dead.

13] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

14] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

15] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

16] The biter is sometimes bit

17] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

18] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

19] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

20] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

21] A man can die but once

22] Money refused loses its brightness

23] He that talks much, errs much

24] Never say die

25] A gift much expected is paid, not given

26] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

27] Health and wealth create beauty

28] Out of sight, out of mind

29] One is never too old to learn

30] Four eyes see better than two.

31] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

32] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

33] Once a use and ever a custom

34] There is no blindness like ignorance

35] No garden without its weeds.

36] Every dog is valiant at his won door

37] The game is not worth the candle

38] A bully never grows up.

39] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

40] He that can stay. Obtains

41] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

42] Books and friends should be few but good

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

44] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

45] Riches along make no men happy

46] The exception proves the rule

47] He who begins many things, finishes but few

48] He that eats well should do his duty well

49] When wine sinks, words swim

50] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

51] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

52] Dying men speak true

53] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

54] None can guess the jewel by the casket

55] The longest journey starts with a single step

56] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

57] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

58] Go not to hell for company

59] Use makes mastery

60] No man is content with his lot

61] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

62] Rust wastes more than use

63] Fingers were made before forks

64] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

65] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

66] Many dishes make many diseases

67] What is worth doing is worth doing well

68] If you would be well served, serve yourself

69] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

70] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

71] Gold is tried in the fire

72] It is good fishing in troubled waters

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

74] Old foxes want no tutors

75] Love is lawless.

76] Anger managers everything badly.

77] Who greases his way travels easily

78] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

79] Stolen sweets are sweeter

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

81] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

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

83] They say so’ is half a lie

84] Love turns pimples

85] There is no fool like an old fool

86] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

87] Words fly, writings remain

88] Money has no smell

89] Much law but little justice

90] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

91] Marriages are made in heaven

92] Experience is the mother of wisdom

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

94] Every little helps

95] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

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

97] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

98] Faint heart never won fair lady

99] Dumb dogs are dangerous

100] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.