Famous Proverbs

1] Empty vessels make the most noise

2] Nature will have her course

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

4] None can guess the jewel by the casket

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

6] A good lawyer must be a great liar

7] There is none misfortune cannot reach

8] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

9] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

10] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

11] You may know by a handful the whole sack

12] Better late than never, but better never late

13] One of these days is none of these days

14] Never too late to learn

15] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

16] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

17] The absent saint gets no candle

18] The more laws, the more offenders

19] He that has no money needs no purse

20] Live and let live

21] The good is often the enemy of the best

22] What is worse than ill luck?

23] Do not triumph before the victory

24] One barber shaves another gratis

25] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

26] Abundance, like want, ruins many

27] Waste is not grandeur

28] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

29] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

30] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

31] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

32] A cat has nine lives

33] Hard cases make bad law

34] The biter is sometimes bit

35] Trust is the mother of deceit

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

37] What costs little is little esteemed

38] A parrot will only say what it is taught

39] No misfortune will go on forever

40] Often and little eating makes a man fat

41] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

42] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

43] A good conscience is a soft pillow

44] It is more pain to do nothing than something

45] Great actions speak minds

46] He that speaks not, God hears not

47] All things are possible with god

48] As you brew, so shall you drink.

49] Change of pasture makes fat calves

50] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

51] An egg thief will become a camel thief

52] As you sow, so shall you reap

53] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

54] It is well to live that one may learn

55] Never do evil that good may come of it

56] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

57] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

58] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

59] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

60] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

61] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

62] Beauty fades like a flower.

63] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

64] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

65] Hope keeps man alive

66] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

67] Every man to his trade.

68] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

69] Learn to walk before you run

70] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

71] It is ill striving against the stream

72] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

73] Every groom is a king at home

74] The cobbler should stick to his last

75] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

76] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

77] Gold will not buy everything

78] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

79] No sweet without sweat

80] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

81] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

82] One man’s loss is another’s gain

83] Hard cases make bad law

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

85] All things that great men do are well done

86] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

87] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

88] It never rains it pours

89] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

90] Erring is not heating

91] Cheats never prosper

92] Home is home though it be never so homely

93] He may find fault that cannot mend

94] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

95] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

96] Don’t play with fire

97] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

98] Words cut more than swords

99] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

100] Life is not all beer and skittles