Famous Proverbs

1] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

2] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

3] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

4] Every groom is a king at home

5] The belly carries the legs

6] Empty vessels make the most sound

7] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

8] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

9] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

10] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

11] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

12] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

13] Better a bare foot than none

14] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

15] Custom reconciles us to everything

16] A good conscience is a constant feast

17] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

18] Good ware makes quick market

19] Diligence is the mother of good luck

20] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

21] Little and often fills the purse

22] The money you refuse will never do you good

23] Every little helps

24] Children and fools cannot lie.

25] Birds once snared fear all bushes

26] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

27] A single rose does not mean spring

28] Pat any man and dust will fly

29] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

30] You can’t clap with one hand

31] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

32] One can’t help many, but many can help one

33] Better at home than a mile from it

34] The dog is a lion in his own house

35] All things require skills but an appetite

36] He that will thrive must rise at five

37] What has been, may be

38] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

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

40] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

41] One is not smelt where all stink

42] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

43] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

44] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

45] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

46] Each day brings its own bread

47] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

48] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

49] No hair so small but has his shadow

50] Friendship should not be all on one side

51] The hand that gives, gathers

52] Money makes the man

53] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

54] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

55] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

56] Penny and penny laid up will be many

57] Sooner begun, sooner done

58] Honour is the reward of virtue

59] There is nothing lost by civility

60] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

61] Common fame is a liar

62] Things are only worth one makes them worth

63] Clothes do not make the man

64] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

65] Light burden I heavy if far borne

66] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

67] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

68] Save your breath to cool the porridge

69] High places have their precipices

70] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

71] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

72] Better beg than steal.

73] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

74] Bear with evil and expect good

75] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

76] Moderation in all things

77] Blue are the far away hills

78] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

79] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

80] Paddle your own canoe

81] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

82] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

83] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

84] Forewarned is forearmed

85] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

86] It’s dogged that does it

87] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

88] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

89] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

90] That which Nature paints never fades

91] Fool’s haste is no speed

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

93] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

94] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

95] There is no blindness like ignorance

96] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

97] Words are but wind

98] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

99] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

100] The submitting to one wrong brings on another