Famous Proverbs

1] Fool’s haste is no speed

2] All covet all lose.

3] Delays are not denials

4] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

5] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

6] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

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

8] The pen is the tongue of the hand

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

10] Be just before you are generous

11] Self-praise is no recommendation

12] Procrastination is the thief of time

13] Better an open enemy than a false friend

14] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

15] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

16] Nothing succeeds like success

17] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

18] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

19] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

20] Exchange is no robbery

21] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

22] Little pitchers have big ears.

23] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

24] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

25] A watched pot never boils

26] All things are difficult before they are easy

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

28] A good name is better than a golden girdle

29] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

30] Cut your coat according to your cloth

31] An empty sack cannot stand upright

32] Care brings grey hair.

33] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

34] It never rains it pours

35] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

36] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

37] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

38] The course of true love never did run smooth

39] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

40] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

41] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

42] The envious man shall never want woe

43] A man’s mother is his other God

44] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

45] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

46] Small is the seed of every greatness

47] Necessity knows no law

48] Penny wise, pound foolish

49] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

50] There’s a time and place for everything

51] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

52] Even silence may be eloquent

53] Patient waiters are no losers

54] Business is business

55] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

56] Take away fuel, take away flame

57] Tigers and deer do not over.

58] Change brings life

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

60] Every oak has been an acorn

61] Gold will not buy everything

62] A jest breaks no bones

63] Change of pasture makes fat calves

64] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

65] Spread the table, and contention will cease

66] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

67] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

68] You win some, you lose some

69] First thrive then wive

70] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

71] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

72] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

73] Wrong never comes right

74] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

75] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

76] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

77] He that cannot ask, cannot live

78] Moderation in all things

79] He who envies admits his inferiority

80] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

81] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

82] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

83] Bear and forbear

84] Anything will fit a naked man.

85] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

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

87] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

88] Those near the temple deride the gods

89] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

90] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

91] One fool praises another

92] Once bitten, twice shy.

93] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

94] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

95] He that talks much, errs much

96] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

97] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

98] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

99] Gold is tried in the fire

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