Famous Proverbs

1] Health is great riches

2] That which proves too much proves nothing

3] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

4] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

5] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

6] Better never begin than never make an end

7] The game is not worth the candle

8] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

9] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

10] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

11] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

12] One father is more than a hundred school masters

13] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

14] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

15] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

16] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

17] Mirth without measure is madness

18] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

19] The best things come in small packages

20] It is ill striving against the stream

21] The more you get, the more you want

22] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

23] Bear with evil and expect good

24] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

25] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

26] Little wealth, little care

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

28] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

29] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

30] Failure teaches success

31] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

32] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

33] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

34] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

35] Better no doctor at all than three.

36] A friend is easier lost than found

37] Truth conquers all things

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

39] Better the last smile than the first laugh

40] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

41] You never know what you can do till you try

42] Petty laws breed great crimes

43] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

44] A friend in need is a friend indeed

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

46] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

47] He that does most at once, does least

48] Even a worm will turn

49] One man’s loss is another’s gain

50] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

51] Vice makes virtue shine

52] You may have too much of a good thing

53] Spend and be free, but make no waste

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

55] He that pities another remembers himself

56] There is no garden without its weeds

57] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

58] Hope is grief’s best music

59] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

60] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

61] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

62] Little pitchers have big ears.

63] Young saint, old devil.

64] Words fly, writings remain

65] Gold is tried in the fire

66] Facts are stubborn things

67] Borrowed garments never fit well

68] Spare the rod and spoil the child

69] Every light has its shadow

70] Love is without reason

71] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

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

73] Fine feathers make fine birds.

74] Learn not and know not

75] Give the devil his due

76] He that is down need fear no fall

77] Paddle your own canoe

78] You can’t tell a book by its cover

79] Go while the going is good

80] Rip not up old sores

81] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

82] What must be must be

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

84] Wrong has no warrant

85] Other times, other manners

86] Dead dogs bark not

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

88] Every flow must have its ebb

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

90] Good broth may be made in an old pot

91] The course of true love never did run smooth

92] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

93] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

94] The greatest step is that out of doors

95] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

96] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

97] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

98] Work expands so as to fill the time available

99] Liars should have good memories

100] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.