Famous Proverbs

1] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

2] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

3] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

4] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

5] Experience is the mother of wisdom

6] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

7] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

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

9] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

10] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

11] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

12] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

13] It’s a long lane that has no turning

14] Nature does nothing in vain

15] A good conscience is a soft pillow

16] Weak things united become strong

17] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

18] Discretion is the better part of valour

19] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

20] He who last, laughs longest.

21] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

22] Appetite comes with eating

23] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

24] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

25] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

26] A friend is easier lost than found

27] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

28] The wish is father to the thought

29] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

30] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

31] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

32] Trusting often makes fidelity

33] The king can do no wrong

34] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

35] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

36] Nature abhors a vacuum

37] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

38] Now is now, and then was then

39] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

40] An ill tongue may do much

41] The Pen is mightier than the sword

42] Safety lies in the middle course

43] Love me, love the crows on my roof

44] Marriage is a lottery

45] Learning is the eye of the mind

46] The bait hides the hook

47] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

48] Mercy surpasses justice

49] A true friend is forever a friend

50] A word is enough to the wise

51] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

52] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

53] The fox may grow grey, but never good

54] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

55] The end makes all equal

56] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

57] White there’s life there’s hope

58] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

59] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

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

61] Nothing crave, nothing have

62] Better the last smile than the first laugh

63] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

64] You can’t clap with one hand

65] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

66] Discontent is the first step in progress

67] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

68] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

69] You cannot serve God and Mammon

70] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

71] Kindness lies in one side of the house

72] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

73] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

74] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

75] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

76] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

77] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

78] Threatened folk live long

79] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

80] Her that is down need fear no fall

81] A still tongue makes a wise head

82] Seek and you shall find

83] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

84] Never buy a pig in a poke

85] Wife and Children are bills of charges

86] God sends cold after Clothes

87] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

88] Live and let live

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

90] The dog that fetches, will carry.

91] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

92] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

93] Use makes mastery

94] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

95] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

96] Evil to him who evil thinks.

97] Fish begins to stink at the head

98] Every law has a loophole

99] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

100] Out of debt, out of danger