Famous Proverbs

1] Beauty fades like a flower.

2] Content is better than riches

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

4] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

5] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

6] Never too late to repent

7] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

8] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

9] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

10] There are spots even in the sun

11] It is ill striving against the stream

12] Kill two birds with one stone

13] Nature does nothing in vain

14] Homo is a common name to all men.

15] Beggars must not be choosers

16] They that dance must pay the fiddler

17] Men are blind in their own cause

18] Better be a fool than a knave

19] Don’t play with edged tools

20] They brag most who can do least

21] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

22] Wiles help weak folk

23] The value of money is having it.

24] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

25] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

26] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

27] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

28] Covetousness breaks the sack

29] Exchange is no robbery

30] A good garden may have some ill weeds

31] He that speaks not, God hears not

32] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

33] The race is got by running

34] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

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

36] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

37] The best of men are but men at best.

38] There is truth in wine

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

40] Birds of a feather flock together

41] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

42] Practice what you preach

43] Better no doctor at all than three.

44] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

45] A good husband makes a good wife

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

47] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

48] The darkest place is under the candlestick

49] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

50] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

51] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

52] There is no place like home

53] The labourer is worthy of his hire

54] Moderation in all things

55] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

56] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

57] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

58] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

59] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

60] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

61] No like is the same.

62] We have all been once in our life

63] Speech is silver, silence is golden

64] Plain dealing is best

65] No man is infallible

66] Example is better than precept

67] Expectation is better than realisation

68] Crows are all completely black

69] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

70] Hunger breaks stone walls

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

72] Hunger is the teacher of many

73] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

74] Love delights in praise

75] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

76] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

77] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

78] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

79] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

80] All things require skills but an appetite

81] Dying is as natural as living

82] Little by little and bit by bit.

83] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

84] Discontent is the first step in progress

85] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

86] Misfortune does not always come to injure

87] Good broth may be made in an old pot

88] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

89] What is word but wind?

90] One master in a house is enough

91] A goose drinks as much as gander

92] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

93] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

94] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

95] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

96] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

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

98] Little things are great to little men

99] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

100] The best of friends must part