Famous Proverbs

1] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

2] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

3] Much meat, much malady

4] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

5] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

6] No choice amongst stinking fish

7] Lavishness is not generosity

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

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

10] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

11] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

12] There is no accounting for tastes

13] An egg thief will become a camel thief

14] Spread the table, and contention will cease

15] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

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

17] Extremes meet

18] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

19] The fox may grow grey, but never good

20] Four eyes see better than two.

21] First creep, then walk

22] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

23] Slow and steady wins the race

24] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

25] Six feet of earth make all men equal

26] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

27] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

28] A cat has nine lives

29] Love is sweet torment

30] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

31] The money you refuse will never do you good

32] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

33] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

34] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

35] No man is indispensable

36] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

37] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

38] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

39] Every man must carry his own cross

40] Every man must carry his own cross

41] Never spend your money before you have it

42] Think on the end before you begin

43] Soon hot, soon cold

44] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

45] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

46] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

47] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

48] A bully is always a coward

49] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

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

51] Money has no smell

52] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

53] Everything new is fine

54] Of one ill come many

55] The ass that brays most eats

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

57] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

58] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

59] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

60] A black hen lays a white egg

61] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

62] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

63] A good conscience is a sure card

64] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

65] He that will thrive must rise at five

66] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

67] Choose thy company before thy drink

68] Love can find a way

69] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

70] Better late than never, but better never late

71] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

72] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

73] A jest breaks no bones

74] One man sows and another reaps

75] There are more ways to the wood than one.

76] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

77] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

78] Too much cunning undoes

79] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

80] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

81] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

82] A woman’s work is never done

83] Even water has its ebb and flow

84] Accidents will happen

85] A miss is as good as a mile

86] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

87] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

88] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

89] The righteous man sins before an open chest

90] The age of miracles is past

91] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

92] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

93] A hungry man is angry man

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

95] Good hand, good hire

96] A living dog is better than a dead lion

97] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

98] A word to the wise is enough

99] Friendship should not be all on one

100] The cobbler should stick to his last