Famous Proverbs

1] If you want peace, prepare for war

2] Kingdoms divided soon fall

3] He that has a wife, has strife

4] No man fears what he has seen grow

5] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

6] It is no use crying over spilt milk

7] Many a little makes a mickle

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

9] There’s a time and place for everything

10] It is ill jesting with edged tools

11] Every dog has his (its) day

12] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

13] Bad news travels fast

14] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

15] The labour we delight in physics pain

16] Men are known by the company they keep.

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

18] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

19] He who comes first, grinds first.

20] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

21] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

22] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

23] Take things as you find them

24] None so deaf as those that will not hear

25] Fingers were made before forks

26] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

27] An old ox makes a straight furrow

28] A hungry man is angry man

29] A good name is a rich heritage

30] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

31] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

32] Talk much end err much

33] Money can influence even the spirits

34] Homo is a common name to all men.

35] A word to the wise is enough

36] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

37] Petty laws breed great crimes

38] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

39] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

40] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

41] It is not work that kills but worry

42] What is money to a cat?

43] One is not smelt where all stink

44] It is more blessed to give than to receive

45] Ill comes often on the back worse

46] Go while the going is good

47] Once a knave, always a knave

48] The value of money is having it.

49] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

50] Don’t meet trouble half-way

51] Even Homer sometimes nods

52] Take things as you find them

53] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

54] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

55] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

56] What is a workman without his tools?

57] Charity begins at home.

58] Be just before you are generous

59] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

60] The longest night will have an end

61] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

62] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

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

64] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

65] You cannot make a crab walk straight

66] A learned man has always riches in himself

67] The day obliterates the promise of the might

68] Erring is not heating

69] Open a book and you profit by what you read

70] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

71] The bait hides the hook

72] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

73] Business is business

74] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

75] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

76] Covetousness brings nothing home

77] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

78] The faulty stands on his guard

79] Jesters do oft prove prophets

80] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

81] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

82] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

83] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

84] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

85] Dirty linen should be washed at home

86] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

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

88] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

89] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

90] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

91] He who begins many things, finishes but few

92] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

93] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

94] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

95] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

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

97] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

98] He that ventures not fails not.

99] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

100] A fool always rushes to the fore.