Famous Proverbs

1] The fairest flowers soonest fade

2] Nearest the heart comes out first

3] Misfortune makes foes of friends

4] Too long burden makes weary bones

5] Health without money is half an ague

6] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

7] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

8] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

9] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

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

11] Nothing crave, nothing have

12] Silence gives (or means) consent

13] A good tongue is a good weapon

14] No misfortune will go on forever

15] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

16] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

17] It is a shame to be shameless

18] The best things are hard to come by.

19] A wicked man is his own hell

20] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

21] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

22] If you play with fire you get burnt

23] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

24] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

25] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

26] Go not to hell for company

27] He who wills the end, Wills the means

28] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

29] Confess and be hanged

30] Walls have ears

31] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

32] Honour is the reward of virtue

33] No misfortune will go on forever

34] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

35] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

36] It is as natural to die as to be born

37] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

38] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

39] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

40] There is no garden without its weeds

41] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

42] Standing pools gather fifth

43] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

44] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

45] A single rose does not mean spring

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

47] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

48] He that has no shame has no conscience

49] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

50] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

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

52] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

53] He that eats least eats most

54] Call a spade a spade

55] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

56] Names are debts

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

58] Everything is good in its season

59] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

60] Anger managers everything badly.

61] History repeats itself

62] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

63] A little body often harbours a great soul

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

65] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

66] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

67] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

68] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

69] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

70] There are more men threatened than stricken

71] Life is not all beer and skittles

72] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

73] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

74] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

75] Love will find a way

76] Better to be safe than sorry.

77] Experience is the best teacher

78] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

79] A door must be either shut or open

80] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

81] Master easy, servant slack

82] Of one ill come many

83] Saying is one thing, and doing another

84] Where there are reeds, there is water

85] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

86] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

87] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

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

89] Friendship should not be all on one side

90] First try and then trust

91] Light grows the burden which is well borne

92] It is the unexpected that always happens

93] Slow but sure wins the race

94] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

95] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

96] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

97] Time flies

98] Every dog is valiant at his won door

99] Don’t cry before you are hurt

100] Through hardship to the stars