Famous Proverbs

1] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

2] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

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

4] Wise men silent, fools talk

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

6] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

7] The falling drops hollow the stone

8] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

9] Divine grace was never slow

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

11] As you bake, so shall you eat.

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

13] Will is the cause of woe

14] Virtue carries a lean purse

15] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

16] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

17] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

18] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

19] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

20] Look on the bright side

21] Forgive and forget

22] The labour we delight in physics pain

23] If one will not, another will

24] The owl thinks her own young fairest

25] Better learn late than never

26] It never rains it pours

27] Live and Learn

28] He laughs best who laughs last

29] By falling we learn to go safely

30] Least said, soonest mended

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

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

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

34] Keep something for a rainy day

35] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

36] Big words seldom go with good deeds

37] There is no tree but bears some fruit

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

39] No man fears what he has seen grow

40] Take the tone of the company you are in

41] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

42] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

43] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

44] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

45] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

46] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

47] Beauty opens locked doors

48] Sickness soaks the purse

49] Ready money is ready medicine

50] Law makers should not be law breakers

51] Too far east is west

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

53] He knows which side his bread is buttered

54] In the end, things will mend

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

56] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

57] Sweet are the uses of adversity

58] He that obey cannot command

59] A knave and a fool never take thought

60] Manners and money make a gentleman

61] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

62] Appetite comes with eating

63] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

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

65] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

66] Idle folks lack no excuses

67] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

68] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

69] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

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

71] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

72] Never too late to learn

73] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

74] Dreams go by contraries

75] Beauty is only skin deep

76] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

77] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

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

79] He who comes first, grinds first.

80] No remedy but patience

81] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

82] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

83] A little impatience will spoil great plans

84] Too long burden makes weary bones

85] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

86] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

87] Master easy, servant slack

88] Rip not up old sores

89] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

90] Gifts blind the eyes.

91] It is easy to be wise after the event

92] Young saint, old devil.

93] Dreams are lies

94] A good husband makes a good wife

95] Needs must when the devil drives

96] Long looked for, comes at last

97] A man with no hands is given a ring.

98] In the land of hope there is never any winter

99] Conscience does make cowards of us all

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