Famous Proverbs

1] The righteous man sins before an open chest

2] The highest branch is not the safest roost

3] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

4] Divide and rule

5] Faint heart never won fair lady

6] Know thyself

7] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

8] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

9] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

10] A change is as good as rest

11] Too far east is west

12] Moderation in all things

13] It is good to follow the old fox

14] Seek and you shall find

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

16] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

17] Well done is better than well said

18] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

19] Art improves Nature

20] A good friend is my nearest relation

21] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

22] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

23] No wrong without a remedy

24] Homer sometimes nods

25] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

26] Nearest the heart comes out first

27] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

28] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

29] Better ask the way than go astray

30] The darkest place is under the candlestick

31] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

32] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

33] When wine sinks, words swim

34] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

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

36] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

37] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

38] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

39] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

40] He that speaks well, flights well

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

42] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

43] Good to begin well, better to end well.

44] Better belly burst than good meat lost

45] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

46] Love knows no limit

47] Pardon makes offenders

48] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

49] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

50] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

51] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

52] Better beg than steal.

53] No flying without wings.

54] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

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

56] There is nothing lost by civility

57] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

58] Put out your tubs when it is raining

59] Honesty is the best policy

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

61] A loveless life is a living death

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

63] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

64] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

65] Nature hates all sudden changes

66] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

67] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

68] He that seeks trouble never misses

69] Delays are not denials

70] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

71] In wine there is truth

72] Virtue is the only true nobility

73] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

74] He has not lost all who has one cast left

75] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

76] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

77] Each day brings its own bread

78] No answer is also an answer

79] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

80] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

81] Plain dealing is best

82] No man is his craft’s master the first day

83] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

84] There is no royal road to learning

85] No feast lasts forever.

86] Nature is conquered by obeying her

87] Time flies

88] You cannot unscramble eggs

89] One cannot love and be wise

90] Virtue has all things in itself

91] Laugh and grow fat

92] Youth and age will never agree

93] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

94] They are rich who have true friends

95] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

96] The course of true love never did run smooth

97] A woman’s work is never done

98] Enough is as good as a feast

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

100] He knows most who speaks least