Famous Proverbs

1] Grin and bear it

2] Go not to hell for company

3] He is wise who looks ahead

4] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

5] There is no royal road to learning

6] Poverty is no sin

7] The devil looks after his own

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

9] Give credit where credit is due

10] The fox may grow grey, but never good

11] There is nothing lost by civility

12] Honesty is ill to thrive by

13] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

14] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

15] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

16] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

17] Poverty is the mother of crime

18] An oak is not felled at one stroke

19] Through obedience learn to command.

20] All lay loads on a willing horse

21] When angry, count a hundred

22] A man may learn wit every day.

23] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

24] Many words, many buffets

25] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

26] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

27] An Englishman’s home is his castle

28] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

29] Business is business

30] Fools live poor to die rich

31] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

32] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

33] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

34] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

35] What is worse than ill luck?

36] You can’t take it with you when you die

37] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

38] The leopard cannot change its spots

39] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

40] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

41] Don’t cry before you are hurt

42] Findings are keepings

43] So many countries, so many customs

44] Wisdom is better than strength

45] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

46] Appearances are deceptive

47] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

48] Hard words break no bones

49] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

50] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

51] Great barkers are no biters

52] No garden without its weeds.

53] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

54] Plain dealing is a jewel

55] Care is no cure

56] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

57] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

58] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

59] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

60] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

61] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

62] Where there is no trust there is no love

63] Example is the greatest of all seducers

64] Best is cheapest

65] One today is worth two tomorrows

66] Put out your tubs when it is raining

67] Wishes can never fill a sack

68] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

69] Like father, like son

70] What costs little is little esteemed

71] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

72] He that seeks trouble never misses

73] No day so clear but has dark clouds

74] Stolen sweets are sweeter

75] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

76] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

77] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

78] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

79] Misfortune makes foes of friends

80] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

81] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

82] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

83] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

84] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

85] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

86] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

87] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

88] So many countries, so many customs

89] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

90] The Pen is mightier than the sword

91] Better to wear out than rust out

92] Give the devil his due

93] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

94] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

95] Handsome is as handsome does

96] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

97] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

98] The goat must browse where she is tied

99] Everything would fain live

100] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion