Famous Proverbs

1] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

2] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

3] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

4] Laugh and grow fat

5] You must grin and bear it

6] Strength grows stronger by being tried

7] A goose drinks as much as gander

8] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

9] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

10] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

11] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

12] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

13] No pain, no cure

14] Patience is the remedy of the world

15] No man is his craft’s master the first day

16] There is no rose without a thorn

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

18] No like is the same.

19] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

20] A true man and a thief think not the same

21] The resolved mind has no cares

22] Virtue is its own reward

23] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

24] Pleasant hours fly past

25] The belly carries the legs

26] Ill news comes apace.

27] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

28] Even a worm will turn

29] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

30] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

31] When in doubt, do nothing

32] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

33] A mouse may help a lion

34] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

35] Hope keeps man alive

36] Life begins only in success

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

38] You may know by a handful the whole sack

39] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

40] Truth is stranger than fiction

41] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

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

43] What is new cannot be true

44] You cannot have your cake and eat it

45] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

46] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

47] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

48] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

49] A penny saved is a penny gained

50] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

51] All things that great men do are well done

52] A good beginning is half the battle.

53] One reason is as good as fifty

54] Money refused loses its brightness

55] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

56] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

57] Life is short and time is swift

58] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

59] A good paymaster needs no surety

60] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

61] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

62] We don’t get something for nothing

63] Honest is the best policy

64] A good servant must have good wages

65] An old man is a bed full of bones

66] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

67] You are never too old to learn

68] Jack is as good as his master

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

70] Light grows the burden which is well borne

71] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

72] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

73] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

74] Children and fools cannot lie.

75] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

76] The slowest barker is the surest biter

77] A good name is sooner lost than won

78] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

79] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

80] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

81] The best of friends must part

82] True doctrines require no miracles

83] No road is long with good company

84] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

85] All’s fish that comes to the net

86] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

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

88] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

89] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

90] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

91] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

92] One fool praises another

93] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

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

95] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

96] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

97] Better a bare foot than none

98] Great actions speak minds

99] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

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