Famous Proverbs

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

2] Everyone to his taste

3] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

4] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

5] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

6] It is too late to call back yesterday

7] One potter envies another

8] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

9] A bully is always a coward

10] Envy never enriched any man.

11] Health and wealth create beauty

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

13] Barking dogs seldom bite

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

15] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

16] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

17] He that has no money needs no purse

18] The axe falls on a straight tree first

19] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

20] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

21] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

22] Bread is the staff of life.

23] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

24] Four eyes see better than two.

25] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

26] Necessity is a powerful weapon

27] Come with the wind, got with the water

28] All are not saints that go to church

29] Love is never without jealousy

30] He that burns most, shines most

31] Change brings life

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

33] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

34] The longest way round is the shortest way home

35] The end crowns the work.

36] The longest day must have an end

37] A jest breaks no bones

38] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

39] The first blow is half the battle

40] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

41] Birds of a feather flock together

42] Lose a leg rather than a life

43] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

44] Two wrongs do not make a right

45] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

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

47] Never judge from appearances

48] Hear twice before you speak once

49] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

50] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

51] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

52] The greatest talkers are the least doers

53] Money is the root of all evil

54] Art improves Nature

55] Money makes the man

56] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

57] The best things come in small packages

58] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

59] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

60] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

61] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

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

63] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

64] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

65] From small beginnings come great things

66] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

67] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

68] Men are blind in their own cause

69] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

70] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

71] An honest good look covers many faults.

72] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

73] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

74] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

75] Common fame is a liar

76] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

77] Quietness is a great treasure

78] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

79] The great would have none great, and the little all little

80] Too long burden makes weary bones

81] An oak is not felled at one stroke

82] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

83] History repeats itself

84] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

85] As you brew, so shall you drink.

86] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

87] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

88] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

89] He who hesitates is lost

90] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

91] All’s fish that comes to the net

92] Quickly come, quickly go

93] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

94] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

95] The bull must be taken by the horns

96] All’s fair in love and war

97] A rich man can do nothing wrong

98] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

99] You are never too old to learn

100] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist