Famous Proverbs

1] They are rich who have true friends

2] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

3] Hunger is sharper than the sword

4] He who excuses himself accuses himself

5] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

6] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

7] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

8] Revenge never repairs an injury

9] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

10] Fools grow without watering.

11] Those near the temple deride the gods

12] The good is often the enemy of the best

13] Where there is no trust there is no love

14] East or west, home is best

15] What can’t be cured must be endured

16] The deed comes back upon the doer.

17] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

18] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

19] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

20] In indecision itself, grief is present.

21] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

22] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

23] Parents are patterns

24] A single rose does not mean spring

25] A living dog is better than a dead lion

26] The end makes all equal

27] The thread breaks where it is weakest

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

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

30] Keep some till further more come

31] The road to hell is paved with good action

32] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

33] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

34] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

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

36] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

37] You can’t win them all

38] If you play with fire you get burnt

39] Fortune is blind

40] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

41] Never spend your money before you have it

42] United we stand, divided we fall

43] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

44] Bad excuses are worse than none.

45] Grin and bear it

46] Poor folk fare the best

47] Even reckoning makes long friends

48] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

49] Too long burden makes weary bones

50] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

51] Quickly come, quickly go

52] Money talks

53] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

54] The devil dances in an empty pocket

55] Travel broadens the mind

56] Frugality is the mother of virtue

57] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

58] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

59] No remedy but patience

60] Well done is better than well said

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

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

63] Necessity breaks iron

64] A man’s wealth is his enemy

65] In haste is error

66] Crust is better than no bread

67] Idle folks lack no excuses

68] What is a workman without his tools?

69] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

70] A cat has nine lives

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

72] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

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

74] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

75] The more you have the more you want

76] There are spots even in the sun

77] No feast lasts forever.

78] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

79] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

80] A man may learn wit every day.

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

82] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

83] It is ill jesting with edged tools

84] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

85] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

86] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

87] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

88] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

89] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

90] God made the country ,and man made the town

91] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

92] A little learning is dangerous thing

93] The devil is not as black as he is painted

94] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

95] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

96] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

97] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

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

99] If you would be well served, serve yourself

100] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand