Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

2] Quickly come, quickly go

3] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

4] Be just before you are generous

5] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

6] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

7] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

8] There is no place like home

9] He who pays the piper calls the tune

10] Better belly burst than good meat lost

11] A fault confessed is half redressed

12] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

13] One thief will not rob another

14] The borrower is servant to the lender

15] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

16] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

17] It is the unexpected that always happens

18] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

19] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

20] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

21] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

22] There is no accounting for tastes

23] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

24] Suffering does not manifest itself

25] An obedient wife commands her husband

26] Cheap is dear in the long run.

27] Diligence is the mother of good luck

28] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

29] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

30] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

31] A burnt child dreads the fire

32] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

33] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

34] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

35] Misfortune does not always come to injure

36] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

37] It is ill jesting with edged tools

38] Good to begin well, better to end well.

39] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

40] Innocence is no protection

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

42] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

43] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

44] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

45] Kingdoms divided soon fall

46] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

47] Spend and be free, but make no waste

48] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

49] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

50] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

51] A rolling stone gathers no moss

52] Where god will help, nothing does harm

53] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

54] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

55] Laws were made to be broke

56] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

57] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

58] An oak is not felled at one stroke

59] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

60] Repentance comes too late

61] An open door may tempt a saint

62] Every why has a wherefore

63] The word is far him who has patience

64] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

65] Love knows hidden paths

66] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

67] Barking dogs seldom bite

68] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

69] In haste is error

70] There is nothing permanent except change

71] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

72] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

73] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

74] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

75] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

76] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

77] One potter envies another

78] Virtue has all things in itself

79] Help a lame dog over a stile

80] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

81] A wicked man is his own hell

82] The best things in life are free

83] Bad news travels fast

84] God provides for him that trusts

85] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

86] Discontent is the first step in progress

87] There’s no place like home

88] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

89] By falling we learn to go safely

90] The first step is the only difficulty

91] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

92] Better an apple given than eaten

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

94] A learned man has always riches in himself

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

96] Great trees keep down the little ones

97] Anger without power is folly

98] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

99] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

100] Love is without reason