Famous Proverbs

1] Practice is the science that gives confidence

2] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

3] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

4] For a web begun, God sends the thread

5] All is vanity.

6] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

7] A mouse may help a lion

8] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

9] The tailor makes the man

10] Never too late to late to repent

11] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

12] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

13] Like father, like son

14] A little too late, is much too late

15] Life means strife

16] What’s done is done

17] Too much hope deceives

18] He that has a wife, has strife

19] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

20] The hole calls the thief

21] It is easier to pull down than to build

22] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

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

24] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

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

26] Love me, love the crows on my roof

27] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

28] Nature will have her course

29] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

30] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

31] Moderation in all things

32] A jest breaks no bones

33] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

34] They also serve who only stand and wait

35] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

36] Extremes are dangerous

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

38] Wise men do not argue with idiots

39] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

40] A hedge between keeps friendship green

41] Old habits die hard

42] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

43] The best things are hard to come by.

44] A man may learn wit every day.

45] God is a sure paymaster

46] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

47] First try and then trust

48] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

49] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

50] There’s no great loss without some gain

51] Blood is thicker than water

52] Time flees without a delay

53] God is a sure paymaster

54] Prove your friend ere you have need

55] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

56] The ass that brays most eats

57] He that will thrive must rise at five

58] Dog does not eat dog

59] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

60] Who suffers much is silent

61] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

62] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

63] Travel broadens the mind

64] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

65] Excessive happiness produces pain

66] Silence and thinking can no man offend

67] While there is life, there is hope

68] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

69] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

70] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

71] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

72] He that has good money, gives few alms

73] Safety lies in the middle course

74] He that travels far knows much

75] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

76] The end makes all equal

77] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

78] One is not smelt where all stink

79] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

80] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

81] Silence is a woman’s best garment

82] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

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

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

85] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

86] Better to wear out than rust out

87] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

88] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

89] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

90] A prophet is without honour in his own country

91] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

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

93] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

94] One potter envies another

95] Where there’s a will there’s a way

96] The devil knows many things because he is old

97] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

98] Divine grace was never slow

99] The exception proves the rule

100] Numbers overcome the brave