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Famous Proverbs
1] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
2] A good horse cannot wear two saddles
3] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak
4] A bad padlock invites a picklock
5] You can’t clap with one hand
6] Prove your friend ere you have need
7] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose
8] Dumb dogs are dangerous
9] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him
10] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today
11] Friendship should not be all on one
12] As long lives a merry man as a sad
13] The thing which is rare is dear
14] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it
15] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil
16] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die
17] Habit is second nature
18] Nothing succeeds like success
19] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold
20] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?
21] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant
22] A good name is better than a golden girdle
23] Go not to hell for company
24] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world
25] He travels the fastest who travels alone
26] A wise man hears one word and understands two
27] An open door may tempt a saint
28] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
29] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.
30] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master
31] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
32] Help a lame dog over a stile
33] First think, and then speak
34] Names are debts
35] Advise none to marry or to go to war
36] When the word is out it belongs to another
37] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours
38] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing
39] Kind hearts are soonest wronged
40] Blue are the far away hills
41] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch
42] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow
43] A bad excuse is better than none at all
44] One good turn deserves another
45] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.
46] Love me, love the crows on my roof
47] What has been, may be
48] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years
49] It takes a wise man to be a fool
50] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower
51] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand
52] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance
53] Use the means, and God will give the blessings
54] Scatter with one hand, gather with two
55] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.
56] Content is better than riches
57] Good words are worth much and cost little
58] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death
59] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
60] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain
61] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair
62] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended
63] It is too late to call back yesterday
64] Enough is enough
65] Big words seldom go with good deeds
66] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark
67] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own
68] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness
69] He that ventures not fails not.
70] Who suffers much is silent
71] A fault confessed is half redressed
72] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.
73] Much would have more
74] What is new cannot be true
75] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.
76] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword
77] Never buy a pig in a poke
78] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough
79] Pardon makes offenders
80] A good marksman may miss
81] There is death in the pot.
82] He that can stay. Obtains
83] Eaten bread is soon forgotten
84] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.
85] A wounded reputation is seldom cured
86] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them
87] First impressions are half the battle
88] Children and fools have merry lives
89] If there is no wind, the trees will not move
90] A knave and a fool never take thought
91] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind
92] The garment worn determines how one is served
93] What will not money do?
94] A beggar can never be bankrupt
95] He loses his thanks who promises and delays
96] He who leaps high must take a long run
97] Better be safe than sorry
98] One fool praises another
99] Muck and money go together
100] A crowd is not company