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Famous Proverbs

1] One sheep follows another
2] Forgive and forget
3] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish
4] A fair face may hide a foul heart.
5] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.
6] Much babbling is not without offence
7] New things are fair
8] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty
9] He that brings good news, knocks hard
10] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden
11] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled
12] It takes all sorts to make a world
13] From small beginnings come great things
14] Love laughs at locksmiths
15] An ass must be tied where the master will have him
16] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue
17] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives
18] Six feet of earth make all men equal
19] Better a lean peace than a fat victory
20] Man cannot live by bread alone
21] Great oaks from little acorns grow
22] The greatest step is that out of doors
23] Half a word is enough for a wise man
24] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh
25] Never try to prove what nobody doubts
26] Fine words dress ill deeds
27] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
28] He who excuses himself accuses himself
29] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.
30] Every advantage has its disadvantage
31] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.
32] No like is the same.
33] Stolen pleasures are sweetest
34] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.
35] Blood will have blood
36] Nearest the heart comes out first
37] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice
38] One thief will not rob another
39] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work
40] Hope deferred makes the heart sick
41] The slowest barker is the surest biter
42] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.
43] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday
44] Keep something for a rainy day
45] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death
46] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good
47] Adversity makes strange bedfellows
48] Pleasing ware is half sold
49] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools
50] Don’t take your harp to the party
51] One must be a servant before one can be a master
52] Use the means, and God will give the blessings
53] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them
54] Bear and forbear
55] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away
56] Small is the seed of every greatness
57] Hope is but the dream of those that wake
58] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.
59] Give and spend, and God will send
60] One potter envies another
61] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife
62] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence
63] Often and little eating makes a man fat
64] The poor suffer all the wrong
65] The voice is the best music
66] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda
67] Hope springs eternal in the human heart
68] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil
69] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.
70] Hope is grief’s best music
71] There is no fool like an old fool
72] You cannot make bricks without straw
73] Good to begin well, better to end well.
74] Full of courtesy, full of craft
75] A single rose does not mean spring
76] Poor folk fare the best
77] Empty vessels make the most sound
78] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners
79] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food
80] It is an ill bargain where no man wins
81] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.
82] Many irons in the fire, some must cool
83] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.
84] When fortune smiles, embrace her.
85] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh
86] Thatch your roof before the rain begins
87] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well
88] An old ox makes a straight furrow
89] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons
90] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.
91] God never sends mouths but he sent meat
92] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
93] Desert and reward seldom keep company
94] Misfortune tells us what fortune is
95] The resolved mind has no cares
96] Full of courtesy, full of craft
97] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work
98] Noting is impossible to a willing heart
99] Crowns have cares
100] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two



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