Famous Proverbs

1] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

2] Where god will help, nothing does harm

3] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

4] A fault once denied is twice committed

5] If the cap fits, wear it

6] Exchange is no robbery

7] Better children weep than old men

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

9] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

10] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

11] Necessity knows no law

12] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

13] Pleasant hours fly past

14] Sow thin and mow thin

15] Borrowed garments never fit well

16] Truth has no need of rhetoric

17] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

18] Better be safe than sorry

19] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

20] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

21] Nature surpasses art

22] God’s lambs will play.

23] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

24] Practice what you preach

25] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

26] Better say noting than no to the purpose

27] Conscience does make cowards of us all

28] Poverty is not a crime

29] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

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

31] Erring is not heating

32] Once a use and ever a custom

33] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

34] The first blow is half the battle

35] A hedge between keeps friendship green

36] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

37] Alms never make poor

38] True doctrines require no miracles

39] Like mistress, like maid

40] Wise men silent, fools talk

41] Where there’s muck, there’s money

42] Bear and forbear

43] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

44] Truth conquers all things

45] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

46] What can’t be cured must be endured

47] Borrowed garments never fit well

48] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

49] He is wise who looks ahead

50] Soft fire makes sweet malt

51] If today will not, tomorrow may

52] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

53] Law makers should not be law breakers

54] New brooms sweep clean

55] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

56] Love me, love my dog

57] Truth is god’s daughter

58] The devil lurks behind the cross

59] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

60] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

61] First creep, then walk

62] Covetousness breaks the sack

63] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

64] Time lost cannot be recalled

65] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

66] Share and share alike

67] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

68] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

69] If you play with fire you get burnt

70] All is fair in love and war

71] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

72] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

73] Dogs bark as they are bred.

74] New things are fair

75] A man without a wife is but half a man

76] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

77] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

78] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

79] No man is born wise or learned

80] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

81] Man proposes, God disposes

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

83] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

85] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

86] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

87] Be just before you are generous

88] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

89] A willful man will have his way

90] Little by little and bit by bit.

91] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

92] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

93] Do right and fear no man

94] Slow help is no help

95] Soon gotten, soon spent

96] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

97] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

98] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

99] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

100] Fish begins to stink at the head