Famous Proverbs

1] Enough is enough
2] Too much curiosity lost paradise
3] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?
4] Mirth is the sugar of life
5] New things are fair
6] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough
7] Virtue is a jewel of great price.
8] The best things in life are free
9] Our own opinion is never wrong
10] Spare the rod and spoil the child
11] A man may learn wit every day.
12] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning
13] Seek and you shall find
14] A light purse makes a heavy heart
15] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.
16] Good words are worth much and cost little
17] Have two strings to your bow
18] Wrong has no warrant
19] Even the lion must defend itself against flies
20] Time flees without a delay
21] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
22] The weeds overgrow the corn.
23] No man limps because another is hurt
24] All that glitters is not gold
25] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend
26] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.
27] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.
28] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
29] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
30] Words and feathers the wind carries away
31] Coming events cast their shadows before
32] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
33] Poverty parts friendship
34] Men do more things through habit than reason
35] Better beg than steal.
36] Every little helps
37] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses
38] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.
39] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick
40] Who greases his way travels easily
41] You can’t clap with one hand
42] You may know by a handful the whole sack
43] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind
44] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone
45] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history
46] Dying is as natural as living
47] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king
48] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?
49] Self do, self have
50] Men make houses, women make homes
51] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
52] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks
53] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease
54] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf
55] The world is full of fools
56] What can’t be cured must be endured
57] The more you have the more you want
58] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams
59] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would
60] If there is no wind, the trees will not move
61] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little
62] True gold is not transformed by fire
63] The weeds overgrow the corn.
64] Hard cases make bad law
65] Big fish eat little fish
66] Better bend than break
67] Eat to live and not live to eat.
68] Great trees keep down the little ones
69] First impressions are the most lasting
70] One father is more than a hundred school masters
71] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers
72] God is always on the side of the big battalions
73] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.
74] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door
75] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot
76] The labourer is worthy of his hire
77] Through obedience learn to command.
78] Like master, like man
79] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.
80] Wrong has no warrant
81] Silence gives (or means) consent
82] A good example is the best sermon
83] What’s done is done
84] Heaven helps those who help themselves
85] Union (or Unity) is strength
86] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.
87] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save
88] First think, and then speak
89] It takes two to make a quarrel
90] The reason of the strongest is always the best.
91] One must howl with the wolves
92] Half a loaf is better than do bread
93] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory
94] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.
95] He who does no good, does evil enough
96] Laws were made to be broke
97] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich
98] Love your friend with his fault
99] The more cost, the more honour
100] Prove your friend ere you have need