Famous Proverbs

1] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

2] A beggar can never be bankrupt

3] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

4] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

5] Forgive and forget

6] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

7] A light purse makes a heavy heart

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

9] Beggars must not be choosers

10] Out of sight, out of mind

11] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

12] Big fish eat little fish

13] It is good fishing in troubled waters

14] The first step is the only difficulty

15] He that has no shame has no conscience

16] Save your breath to cool the porridge

17] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

18] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

19] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

20] Quickly come, quickly go

21] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

22] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

23] No man is content with his lot

24] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

25] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

26] No wrong without a remedy

27] Better to wear out than rust out

28] Care is no cure

29] Every may be has a may not be

30] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

31] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

32] Of a new prince, new bondage

33] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

34] Evil to him who evil thinks.

35] No honest man ever repented his honesty

36] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

37] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

38] The tailor makes the man

39] Crowns have cares

40] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

41] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

42] The more laws, the more offenders

43] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

44] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

45] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

46] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

47] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

48] Fair exchange is no robbery

49] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

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

51] Nothing seek, nothing find

52] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

53] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

54] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

55] Never buy a pig in a poke

56] A willful man will have his way

57] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

58] Love knows hidden paths

59] The absent saint gets no candle

60] Will is the cause of woe

61] One foot is better than two crutches

62] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

63] Tomorrow never comes

64] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

65] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

66] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

67] Paddle your own canoe

68] He who never was sick dies the first fit

69] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

70] Many a little makes a mickle

71] He would command must serve

72] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

73] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

74] The road to hell is paved with good action

75] Beauty draws more than oxen

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

77] Don’t kick against the pricks

78] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

79] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

80] Many words, many buffets

81] 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

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

83] God is always on the side of the big battalions

84] Busiest men find the most time

85] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

86] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

87] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

88] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

89] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

90] Paddle your own canoe

91] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

92] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

93] Small is the seed of every greatness

94] Names and natures do often agree

95] Half a word is enough for a wise man

96] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

97] Don’t take your harp to the party

98] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

99] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

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