Famous Proverbs

1] No pains, no gains

2] God is a sure paymaster

3] One may change the place but not the mind.

4] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

5] A crowd is not company

6] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

7] First impressions are half the battle

8] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

9] We shall lie all alike in our graves

10] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

11] A word to the wise is enough

12] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

13] Good counsel never comes amiss

14] The best things in life are free

15] Good wine needs no bush

16] You may know by a handful the whole sack

17] A knave and a fool never take thought

18] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

19] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

20] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

21] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

22] Dying is as natural as living

23] The bait hides the hook

24] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

25] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

26] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

27] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

28] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

29] Love is never without jealousy

30] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

31] Talk much end err much

32] Nothing is given so freely as advice

33] Rome was not built in a day

34] No good building without a good foundation.

35] Many hands make light work

36] The best things carried to excess are wrong

37] Sweet are the uses of adversity

38] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

39] It takes a wise man to be a fool

40] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

41] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

42] Better be born lucky than wise.

43] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

44] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

45] Forecast is better than work-hard

46] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

47] Laugh and grow fat

48] Every man has his faults

49] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

50] Content is more than a kingdom

51] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

52] A gift much expected is paid, not given

53] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

54] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

55] Excessive happiness produces pain

56] Silence is also speech

57] Better an apple given than eaten

58] What is new cannot be true

59] A hungry man is angry man

60] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

61] Change brings life

62] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

63] There’s no place like home

64] He is rich that has few wants

65] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

66] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

67] Light burden I heavy if far borne

68] You can’t tell a book by its cover

69] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

70] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

71] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

72] Keep some till further more come

73] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

74] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

75] No land without stones, or meat without bones

76] Death is the grand leveler

77] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

78] More than enough is too much

79] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

80] He that blows best, bears away the horn

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

82] If you have known one, you have known them all

83] The money you refuse will never do you good

84] Every advantage has its disadvantage

85] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

86] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

87] Like will to like

88] Train the child in the way he should go.

89] Better be alone than in bad company

90] A friend in need is a friend indeed

91] Half a loaf is better than do bread

92] What has been, may be

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

94] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

95] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

96] A good tongue is a good weapon

97] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

98] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

99] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

100] A man of knowledge increaseth strength