Famous Proverbs

1] Think of ease, but work on.

2] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

3] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

4] Never buy a pig in a poke

5] Give and take is fair play

6] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

7] He who wills the end, Wills the means

8] The end makes all equal

9] Life begins only in success

10] A jack of all traders is master of none

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

12] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

13] He knows most who speaks least

14] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

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

16] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

17] Kind hearts are more than coronets

18] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

19] Love is without reason

20] The company makes the feast

21] Much law but little justice

22] All griefs with bread are less

23] Two blacks do not make a white

24] Evil to him who evil thinks.

25] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

26] The fox may grow grey, but never good

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

28] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

29] Lovers are madmen

30] One master in a house is enough

31] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

32] You are never too old to learn

33] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

34] Too far east is west

35] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

36] When you do not know what to do – wait.

37] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

38] Great actions speak minds

39] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

40] Poverty is not a crime

41] Love me, love the crows on my roof

42] A good drink makes the old young

43] There is no blindness like ignorance

44] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

45] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

46] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

47] Money is the root of all evil

48] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

49] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

50] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

51] Home is home though it be never so homely

52] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

54] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

55] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

56] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

57] Beauty opens locked doors

58] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

59] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

60] What has been, may be

61] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

62] He conquers who endures

63] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

64] All things require skills but an appetite

65] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

66] When in doubt, do nothing

67] Manners make the man

68] Friends are thieves of time

69] Variety is charming

70] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

71] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

72] Many drops make a shower

73] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

74] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

75] There is nothing new under the sun

76] He that is born a fool is never cured

77] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

78] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

79] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

80] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

81] A good husband makes a good wife

82] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

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

84] Extremes meet

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

86] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

87] From word to deed is a great space

88] Keep something for a rainy day

89] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

90] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

91] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

92] A man can die but once

93] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

94] Learn not and know not

95] A joke’s a very serious thing

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

97] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

98] A good name is better than a golden girdle

99] Never hit a man when he’s down

100] As is the mould, so will the cake be.