Famous Proverbs

1] What is worse than ill luck?

2] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

3] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

4] Ill luck is good for something

5] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

6] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

7] A crust is better than no bread.

8] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

9] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

10] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

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

12] The more cost, the more honour

13] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

14] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

15] Judge not the tree by its bark

16] Cut your coat according to your cloth

17] All’s well that ends well

18] The race is got by running

19] Far from eye, far from heart

20] You never know your luck

21] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

22] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

23] Borrowed garments never fit well

24] He that pities another remembers himself

25] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

26] Honesty is ill to thrive by

27] Pleasant hours fly past

28] All men are mortal

29] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

30] There are spots even in the sun

31] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

32] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

33] Christmas comes but once a year

34] Words bind men

35] Fingers were made before forks

36] Union (or Unity) is strength

37] Beauty draws more than oxen

38] Sooner begun, sooner done

39] Laughter makes good blood

40] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

41] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

42] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

43] It is no use crying over spilt milk

44] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

45] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

46] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

47] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

48] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

49] The sun shines upon all alike.

50] No misfortune will go on forever

51] The pen is the tongue of the hand

52] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

53] Dirty linen should be washed at home

54] A little too late, is much too late

55] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

56] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

57] A straight stick is crooked in water

58] Homer sometimes nods

59] Money has no smell

60] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

61] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

62] He is rich that has few wants

63] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

64] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

65] Sweet are the uses of adversity

66] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

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

68] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

69] Never too late to late to repent

70] Of three main roads, take the middle one

71] One must howl with the wolves

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

73] The greatest talkers are the least doers

74] The best is often the enemy of the good

75] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

76] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

77] Wake not a sleeping lion

78] Trust is the mother of deceit

79] When angry, count a hundred

80] Children and fools have merry lives

81] Bad excuses are worse than none.

82] If the cap fits, wear it

83] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

84] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

85] All things for not all persons

86] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

87] Children and fools cannot lie.

88] He that lives ill, fear follows him

89] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

90] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

91] Truth has no need of rhetoric

92] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

93] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

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

95] A good payer is master of another’s purse

96] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

97] Like master, like man

98] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

99] A rich man’s joke is always funny

100] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip