Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing seek, nothing find

2] Affection blinds reason

3] There is no accounting for tastes

4] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

5] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

6] Little by little and bit by bit.

7] He thinks not well that thinks not again

8] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

9] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

10] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

11] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

12] The longest night will have an end

13] Love can find a way

14] The company makes the feast

15] The last drop makes the cup run over

16] A good name is better than riches

17] A good beginning makes a good ending.

18] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

19] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

20] Every man must carry his own cross

21] One swallow does not make a summer

22] He who touches pitch will be defiled

23] A living dog is better than a dead lion

24] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

25] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

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

27] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

28] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

29] One today is worth two tomorrows

30] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

31] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

32] Too much cunning undoes

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

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

35] No one ought to judge in his own cause

36] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

37] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

38] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

39] Misfortune makes foes of friends

40] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

41] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

42] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

43] Necessity is mother of invention

44] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

45] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

46] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

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

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

49] Men are blind in their own cause

50] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

51] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

52] Care is no cure

53] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

54] A good beginning makes a good ending.

55] Experience must be bought

56] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

57] Gossiping and lying go together

58] Men are known by the company they keep.

59] Better be a fool than a knave

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

61] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

62] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

63] Children and fools cannot lie.

64] Travel broadens the mind

65] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

66] What will not money do?

67] Long looked for, comes at last

68] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

69] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

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

71] No man is wise at all times

72] What is deferred is not abandoned

73] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

74] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

75] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

76] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

77] He that has an ill name is half hanged

78] Everyone to his taste

79] A willful man will have his way

80] Patient waiters are no losers

81] Out of sight, out of mind

82] The game is not worth the candle

83] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

84] Garbage in, garbage out

85] One must be a servant before one can be a master

86] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

87] All doors open to courtesy

88] Early sow, early mow

89] The hole calls the thief

90] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

91] Petty laws breed great crimes

92] One may change the place but not the mind.

93] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

94] He that is absent is soon forgotten

95] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

96] Love turns pimples

97] Jack is as good as his master

98] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

99] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

100] A good Conscience is the best divinity