Famous Proverbs

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

2] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

3] Better be a fool than a knave

4] Love me, love my dog

5] A bribe will enter without knocking

6] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

7] There is no blindness like ignorance

8] White there’s life there’s hope

9] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

10] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

11] There is no redemption from hell

12] None can guess the jewel by the casket

13] Every groom is a king at home

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

15] We don’t get something for nothing

16] A man without a wife is but half a man

17] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

18] Be careful to whom you give

19] Better eye sore than al blind

20] Love is without reason

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

22] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

23] Don’t kick against the pricks

24] It takes all sorts to make a world

25] The love of money is the root of all evil

26] None so busy as those who do nothing.

27] Make hay while the sun shines

28] Names and natures do often agree

29] Live not to eat, but eat to live

30] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

31] All good things must come to an end

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

33] The great fish eat up the small

34] What is worth doing is worth doing well

35] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

36] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

37] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

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

39] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

40] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

41] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

42] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

43] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

44] He who comes late must eat what is left

45] There is no redemption from hell

46] Might is right

47] Virtue joints man to god

48] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

49] Too much curiosity lost paradise

50] Waste makes wants

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

52] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

53] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

54] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

55] It is good fishing in troubled waters

56] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

57] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

58] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

59] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

60] Manners make the man

61] Open confession is good for the soul

62] Numbers overcome the brave

63] Pleasant hours fly past

64] One barber shaves another gratis

65] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

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

67] One potter envies another

68] Enough is as good as a feast

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

70] Children and chickens must be always picking

71] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

72] Money makes the man

73] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

74] There is a great difference between words and deeds

75] A man’s studies pass in to his character

76] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

77] Will is the cause of woe

78] Every man to his trade.

79] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

80] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

81] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

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

83] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

84] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

85] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

86] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

87] He that eats well should do his duty well

88] All things are easy, that are done willingly

89] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

90] Health is not value till sickness comes

91] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

92] The goat must browse where she is tied

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

94] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

95] Half a word is enough for a wise man

96] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

97] Trust is the mother of deceit

98] The cowl does not make the monk.

99] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

100] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves