Famous Proverbs

1] Love your friend with his fault

2] Seeing is believing

3] Diligence is the mother of good luck

4] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

5] Take things as you find them

6] There is nothing permanent except change

7] All is fair in love and war

8] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

9] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

10] Numbers overcome the brave

11] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

12] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

13] Great actions speak minds

14] The sun shines upon all alike.

15] Hope is the poor man’s bread

16] An old dog barks not in vain

17] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

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

19] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

20] Every beginning is hard

21] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

22] Self-praise is no recommendation

23] The devil looks after his own

24] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

25] More than enough is too much

26] The more laws, the more offenders

27] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

28] Youth and age will never agree

29] A good paymaster needs no surety

30] The voice is the best music

31] Words cut more than swords

32] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

33] True doctrines require no miracles

34] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

35] Threatened folk live long

36] Bear and forbear

37] Suffering does not manifest itself

38] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

39] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

40] A gift much expected is paid, not given

41] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

42] Water is the king of food

43] Light grows the burden which is well borne

44] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

45] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

46] Children speak only words they have heard.

47] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

48] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

49] Anger without power is folly

50] Think of ease, but work on.

51] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

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

53] Dogs bark as they are bred.

54] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

55] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

56] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

57] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

58] Everything must have a beginning

59] No pain, no cure

60] Too many cooks spoil the broth

61] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

62] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

63] The more wicked, the more lucky

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

65] Pitchers have ears

66] Every man has his faults

67] Pleasing ware is half sold

68] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

69] The rich knows not who is his friend

70] There’s a time and place for everything

71] Who suffers much is silent

72] He that has no shame has no conscience

73] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

74] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

75] He that does most at once, does least

76] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

77] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

78] All things require skills but an appetite

79] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

80] Four eyes see more than two

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

82] Gifts blind the eyes.

83] Better beg than steal.

84] Every man must carry his own cross

85] Where there is peace, there is blessing

86] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

87] Dumb dogs are dangerous

88] Wink at small faults

89] Variety is charming

90] He that praises himself, spatters himself

91] No man is born wise or learned

92] All things for not all persons

93] There are two sides to every question

94] Law makers should not be law breakers

95] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

96] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

97] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

98] Many a true word is spoken in jest

99] Pride goes before a fall

100] Little things please little minds