Famous Proverbs

1] There is none misfortune cannot reach

2] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

3] Ready money is a ready remedy

4] The day obliterates the promise of the might

5] Nothing seek, nothing find

6] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

7] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

8] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

9] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

10] Kingdoms divided soon fall

11] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

12] You win some, you lose some

13] Children learn to creep ere they can go

14] It is too late to call back yesterday

15] You may have too much of a good thing

16] Marriage is a lottery

17] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

18] Health without money is half an ague

19] Truth is mighty and will prevail

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

21] Two heads are better than one

22] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

23] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

24] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

25] Words bind men

26] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

27] A living dog is better than a dead lion

28] An ill tongue may do much

29] Exchange is no robbery

30] Enough is enough

31] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

32] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

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

34] A good marksman may miss

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

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

37] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

38] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

39] Through obedience learn to command.

40] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

41] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

42] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

43] Share and share alike

44] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

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

46] One good turn deserves another

47] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

48] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

49] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

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

51] There’s no great loss without some gain

52] Idle folks have the least leisure

53] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

54] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

55] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

56] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

57] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

58] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

59] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

60] Praises fill not the belly

61] Idle folks lack no excuses

62] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

63] No man is indispensable

64] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

65] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

66] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

67] In peace, prepare for war

68] Don’t take your harp to the party

69] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

70] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

71] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

72] Death is the grand leveler

73] No man is content with his lot

74] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

75] Bad excuses are worse than none.

76] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

77] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

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

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

80] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

81] All is vanity.

82] Let like mate with like

83] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

84] Birds of a feather flock together

85] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

86] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

87] Empty vessels make the most noise

88] How forceful are right words

89] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

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

91] Don’t cry for the moon

92] It is a great victory that comes without blood

93] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

94] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

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

96] He is an ill husband who is not missed

97] Silence never makes mistakes

98] The labour we delight in physics pain

99] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

100] Nothing is so popular as kindness.