Famous Proverbs

1] Extremes meet

2] What cannot gold do?

3] He who last, laughs longest.

4] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

5] Truth is god’s daughter

6] You know what you can do till you try.

7] Success makes a fool seem wise.

8] Kill two birds with one stone

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

10] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

11] All things require skills but an appetite

12] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

13] Soon hot, soon cold

14] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

15] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

16] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

17] He that brings good news, knocks hard

18] An army marches on its stomach

19] Care brings grey hair.

20] Precepts may lead but examples draw

21] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

22] The word is far him who has patience

23] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

24] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

25] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

26] Every dog has his day

27] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

28] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

29] The mob has many heads but no brains

30] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

31] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

32] Learn to walk before you run

33] An angry man is not fit to pray

34] Mirth without measure is madness

35] At open doors, dogs come in

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

37] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

38] Do not wear out your welcome

39] Judge not, that ye be not judged

40] Don’t tell tales out of school

41] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

42] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

43] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

44] One must howl with the wolves

45] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

46] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

47] Little pitchers have big ears.

48] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

49] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

50] Fish and guests smell in three days

51] In wine there is truth

52] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

53] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

54] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

55] The longest journey starts with a single step

56] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

57] Covetousness is the root of all evil

58] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

59] God’s help is better than the early rising

60] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

61] Every path has a puddle

62] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

63] Money is the only monarch

64] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

65] Don’t try to run before you walk

66] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

67] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

68] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

69] Hitch your wagon to a star

70] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

71] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

72] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

73] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

74] He who does no good, does evil enough

75] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

76] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

77] You can’t take it with you when you die

78] A friend is easier lost than found

79] Common fame is a liar

80] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

81] Open confession is good for the soul

82] In my own house, I am king

83] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

84] The more laws, the more offenders

85] Live and let live

86] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

87] Hope keeps man alive

88] Fools grow without watering.

89] A rich man can do nothing wrong

90] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

91] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

92] We soon believe what we desire

93] He that wants health wants all

94] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

95] Anger without power is folly

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

97] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

98] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

99] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

100] The loftiest towers rise from the ground