Famous Proverbs

1] Experience must be bought

2] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

3] He that has an ill name is half hanged

4] Better sit still than rise and fall

5] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

6] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

7] Mere wishes are silly fishes

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

9] When meat is in anger is out

10] Good is good but better carries it

11] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

12] The longest journey starts with a single step

13] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

14] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

15] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

16] He who hesitates is lost

17] A heavy purse makes a light heart

18] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

19] No feast lasts forever.

20] First come, first served

21] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

22] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

23] None so deaf as those that will not hear

24] Through hardship to the stars

25] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

26] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

27] Sow thin and mow thin

28] What has been, may be

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

30] Extremes meet

31] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

32] Do as I say, not as I do

33] He who touches pitch will be defiled

34] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

35] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

36] Dirty linen should be washed at home

37] Erring is not heating

38] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

39] Some are wise and some are otherwise

40] Love is never without jealousy

41] Everything would fain live

42] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

43] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

44] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

45] Time flies

46] All things that great men do are well done

47] New meat begets a new appetite

48] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

49] Valour delights in the test

50] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

51] He gives twice who gives quickly

52] There is many a fair thing full false

53] He is rich that has few wants

54] Wiles help weak folk

55] A joke’s a very serious thing

56] A learned man has always riches in himself

57] An old ox makes a straight furrow

58] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

59] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

60] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

61] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

62] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

63] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

64] Good broth may be made in an old pot

65] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

66] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

67] Brevity is the soul of wit

68] Riches along make no men happy

69] A good lawyer must be a great liar

70] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

71] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

72] 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.

73] No honest man ever repented his honesty

74] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

75] If you want peace, prepare for war

76] You win some, you lose some

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

78] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

79] Every man is his own worst enemy

80] Speech is silver, silence is golden

81] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

82] Example is better than precept

83] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

84] Nature is conquered by obeying her

85] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

86] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

87] Be just before you are generous

88] Forecast is better than work-hard

89] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

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

91] A gift much expected is paid, not given

92] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

93] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

94] There is no place like home

95] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

96] Wrong never comes right

97] They are rich who have true friends

98] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

99] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

100] Do it now