Famous Proverbs

1] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

2] Necessity is a powerful weapon

3] Homer sometimes nods

4] Cast not the first stone.

5] The longest journey starts with a single step

6] Poverty is no sin

7] There are spots even in the sun

8] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

9] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

10] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

11] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

12] Dumb men get no lands

13] God helps those who help themselves

14] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

15] It is well to live that one may learn

16] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

17] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

18] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

19] A good marksman may miss

20] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

21] Better an apple given than eaten

22] The more you have the more you want

23] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

24] Little things are pretty

25] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

26] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

27] Lend never that thing you needed most

28] As long lives a merry man as a sad

29] The money you refuse will never do you good

30] First try and then trust

31] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

32] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

33] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

34] He who hesitates is lost

35] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

36] Slow and steady wins the race

37] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

38] No tie can oblige the perfidious

39] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

40] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

41] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

42] Good wine needs no bush

43] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

44] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

45] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

46] A closed mouth catches no files

47] Open confession is good for the soul

48] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

49] First impressions are half the battle

50] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

51] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

52] A still tongue makes a wise head

53] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

54] Bear and forbear

55] The best of friends must part

56] Necessity is mother of invention

57] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

58] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

59] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

60] Better to be safe than sorry.

61] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

62] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

63] A good conscience is a soft pillow

64] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

65] Where there is peace, God is

66] He that praises himself, spatters himself

67] Long looked for, comes at last

68] A piece of churchyard fits every body

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

70] Prospect is often better than possession

71] Talk much end err much

72] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

73] A bribe will enter without knocking

74] Hope is grief’s best music

75] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

76] Comparisons are odious

77] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

78] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

79] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

80] Through obedience learn to command.

81] Self-praise is no recommendation

82] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

83] Do not wear out your welcome

84] The pen is the tongue of the hand

85] The fairest silk is soonest stained

86] Empty vessels make the most sound

87] All cats are grey in the dark

88] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

89] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

90] Great trees keep down the little ones

91] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

92] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

93] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

94] The owl thinks her own young fairest

95] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

96] The greatest step is that out of doors

97] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

98] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

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

100] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?