Famous Proverbs

1] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

2] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

3] He who has seen little marvels much

4] He that is born a fool is never cured

5] There is no accounting for tastes

6] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

7] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

8] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

9] Crowns have cares

10] The early bird catches the worm

11] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

12] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

13] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

14] Give a loan and buy quarrel

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

16] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

17] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

18] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

19] Do unto others as they should do unto you

20] Poor folk fare the best

21] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

22] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

23] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

24] They say so’ is half a lie

25] Many a true word is spoken in jest

26] Pride goes before a fall

27] Tomorrow never comes

28] You cannot have your cake and eat it

29] Much babbling is not without offence

30] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

31] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

32] Money has no smell

33] Live and let live

34] Variety takes away satiety

35] Fortune favours fools

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

37] Through obedience learn to command.

38] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

39] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

40] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

41] He that lives ill, fear follows him

42] It is not every question that deserves an answer

43] Death does not recognize strength

44] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

45] Do as say, not as I do

46] Too many cooks spoil the broth

47] Life is not all beer and skittles

48] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

49] New meat begets a new appetite

50] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

51] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

52] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

53] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

54] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

55] They are rich who have true friends

56] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

57] The wish is father to the thought

58] Live not to eat, but eat to live

59] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

60] Much meat, much malady

61] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

62] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

63] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

64] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

65] Money talks

66] Wise men silent, fools talk

67] Everyone to his taste

68] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

69] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

70] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

71] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

72] Many doctors, death accomplished

73] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

74] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

75] Dreams are lies

76] The good intention excuses the bad action

77] Talk much end err much

78] Better sit still than rise and fall

79] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

80] What must be must be

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

82] The word is far him who has patience

83] A good name is sooner lost than won

84] Hope is the poor man’s bread

85] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

86] Young colts will canter.

87] Charity excuseth not cheating.

88] Idle folks have the least leisure

89] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

90] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

91] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

92] Little by little and bit by bit.

93] Now is now, and then was then

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

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

96] Lookers-on see most of the game

97] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

98] Never spur a willing horse

99] Practice is the science that gives confidence

100] A great city, a great solitude