Famous Proverbs

1] What costs little is little esteemed

2] Every man has his price

3] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

4] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

5] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

6] When bees area old, they yield n honey

7] What is worse than ill luck?

8] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

9] All truths are not to be told

10] He that promises too much means nothing

11] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

12] Delays are not denials

13] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

14] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

15] Little things are pretty

16] Opportunity makes the thief

17] The last suitor wins the maid

18] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

19] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

20] Let not your tongue run at rover

21] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

22] There is honour among thieves

23] The best of friends must part

24] It is good to follow the old fox

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

26] Little and often fills the purse

27] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

28] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

29] First think, and then speak

30] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

31] Findings are keepings

32] There is no royal road to learning

33] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

35] Repentance is a bitter physic

36] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

37] One fool praises another

38] Truth conquers all things

39] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

40] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

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

42] As you bake, so shall you eat.

43] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

44] Judge not of men and things at first sight

45] Money can influence even the spirits

46] It is easy to be wise after the event

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

48] Poor folk fare the best

49] Better children weep than old men

50] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

51] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

52] You can’t take it with you when you die

53] He that seeks trouble never misses

54] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

55] Mercy surpasses justice

56] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

57] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

58] A miss is as good as a mile

59] All truths are not to be told

60] No man is indispensable

61] Great actions speak minds

62] Ignorance is the peace of life

63] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

64] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

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

66] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

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

69] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

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

71] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

72] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

73] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

74] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

75] None so busy as those who do nothing.

76] The great fish eat up the small

77] Good counsel never comes amiss

78] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

79] What everybody says must be true

80] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

81] We live by laws, not by examples

82] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

83] Old cattle breed not

84] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

85] Death is the grand leveler

86] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

87] Silence is a woman’s best garment

88] Plain dealing is best

89] There is no smoke without fire

90] Little and often fills the purse

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

92] Goodness is better than beauty

93] No flying without wings.

94] Bear with evil and expect good

95] Where there is no might, right loses itself

96] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

97] True doctrines require no miracles

98] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

99] All cats are grey in the dark

100] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away