Famous Proverbs

1] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

2] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

3] Better an open enemy than a false friend

4] Blood is thicker than water

5] What cannot gold do?

6] Ill news comes unsent for.

7] Great trees keep down the little ones

8] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

9] United we stand, divided we fall

10] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

11] Pleasing ware is half sold

12] There are more ways to the wood than one.

13] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

14] A man’s studies pass in to his character

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

16] New lords, new laws

17] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

18] All doors open to courtesy

19] Extremes are dangerous

20] You are never too old to learn

21] The great fish eat up the small

22] One master in a house is enough

23] Old foxes want no tutors

24] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

25] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

26] Love knows no limit

27] Love will find a way

28] Waste is not grandeur

29] Remember, you are but a man

30] Give the devil his due

31] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

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

33] It is as natural to die as to be born

34] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

35] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

36] There is many a true word spoken in jest

37] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

38] Silence is golden

39] It is too late to husband when all is spent

40] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

41] The more laws, the more offenders

42] You know what you can do till you try.

43] Time lost cannot be recalled

44] Gluttony kills more than the sword

45] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

46] The labourer is worthy of his hire

47] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

48] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

49] A bribe will enter without knocking

50] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

51] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

52] Fingers were made before forks

53] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

54] Better to wear out than rust out

55] Adventures are to be adventurous

56] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

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

58] Cut your coat according to your cloth

59] A living dog is better than a dead lion

60] One cannot love and be wise

61] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

62] Stolen goods never thrive

63] All’s well that ends well

64] Gold will not buy everything

65] Forgive and forget

66] Take things as they come

67] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

68] Give and spend, and God will send

69] No man is content with his lot

70] Train the child in the way he should go.

71] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

72] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

73] The best things carried to excess are wrong

74] Coming events cast their shadows before

75] Don’t take your harp to the party

76] We are all Adam’s children

77] You cannot serve God and Mammon

78] Better no doctor at all than three.

79] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

80] What is new cannot be true

81] Success has many friends

82] There’s a black sheep in every flock

83] All is vanity.

84] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

85] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

86] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

87] A little is better than none

88] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

89] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

90] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

91] The unexpected always happens.

92] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

93] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

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

95] Christmas comes but once a year

96] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

97] Who greases his way travels easily

98] Call a spade a spade

99] Bread is the staff of life.

100] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary