Famous Proverbs

1] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

2] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

3] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

4] Poverty parts friendship

5] Health is better than wealth

6] Almost’ never killed a fly.

7] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

8] The first blow is half the battle

9] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

10] Laughter makes good blood

11] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

12] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

13] Much meat, much malady

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

15] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

16] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

17] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

18] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

19] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

20] Forewarned is forearmed

21] Wrong has no warrant

22] Every man has his price

23] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

24] Little things please little minds

25] United we stand, divided we fall

26] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

27] The worse luck now, the better another time

28] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

29] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

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

31] Busiest men find the most time

32] Silence is golden

33] A man of courage never wants weapons

34] Do as you would be done by

35] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

36] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

37] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

38] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

39] Two heads are better than one

40] It is easy to be wise after the event

41] Look at the bright side

42] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

43] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

44] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

45] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

46] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

47] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

48] Least said, soonest mended

49] It never rains it pours

50] His own ingenuity pricks him.

51] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

52] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

53] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

54] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

55] The child is father of the man

56] He conquers who endures

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

58] Life is short and time is swift

59] Many doctors, death accomplished

60] Weak things united become strong

61] Better belly burst than good meat lost

62] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

63] A mouse may help a lion

64] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

65] Experience is good if not bought too dear

66] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

67] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

68] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

69] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

70] Wishes can never fill a sack

71] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

72] Nature surpasses art

73] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

74] Like mistress, like maid

75] What has been, may be

76] Beauty is but skin-deep

77] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

78] Fish begins to stink at the head

79] Too long burden makes weary bones

80] A good heart conquers ill fortune

81] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

82] A house divided against itself cannot stand

83] Dead men tell no tales

84] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

85] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

86] Let us do evil that good may come

87] If anything can go wrong, it will

88] Trusting often makes fidelity

89] Necessity is mother of invention

90] Many dishes make many diseases

91] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

92] Beware of him who makes thee presents

93] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

94] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

95] Nature hates all sudden changes

96] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

97] One can’t help many, but many can help one

98] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

99] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

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