Famous Proverbs

1] Words cut more than swords

2] Of evil manners, spring good laws

3] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

4] It is good fishing in troubled waters

5] Accidents will happen

6] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

7] The company makes the feast

8] All men are mortal

9] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

10] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

11] Nothing crave, nothing have

12] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

13] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

14] There is nothing that costs less than civility

15] Choose thy company before thy drink

16] He that promises too much means nothing

17] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

18] Trust not the many-minded populace

19] The highest branch is not the safest roost

20] Woes unite foes

21] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

22] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

23] Man punishes the action but God the intention

24] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

25] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

26] Make hay while the sun shines

27] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

28] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

29] Worse things happen at sea

30] The wisest of the wise may err.

31] Prevention is better than cure

32] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

33] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

34] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

35] A soft answer turns away wrath

36] Repentance is a bitter physic

37] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

38] Big fish eat little fish

39] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

40] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

41] A hungry man is angry man

42] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

43] Will is no skill

44] Pardon makes offenders

45] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

46] Every medal has two sides

47] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

48] Big fish eat little fish

49] The deed comes back upon the doer.

50] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

51] Misfortune makes foes of friends

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

53] Man does what he can, and God what he will

54] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

55] Shrouds have no pockets

56] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

57] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

58] In doing we learn.

59] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

60] All is fair in love and war

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

62] Call no man happy till he is dead

63] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

64] You may know by a handful the whole sack

65] Everything new is fine

66] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

67] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

68] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

69] Covetousness brings nothing home

70] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

71] Better beg than steal.

72] The longest way round is the shortest way home

73] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

74] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

75] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

76] Fish and guests smell in three days

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

78] Too much hope deceives

79] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

80] A good garden may have some ill weeds

81] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

82] Do right and fear no man

83] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

84] Do not limp before the lame

85] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

86] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

87] Double charge will rive a cannon

88] A friend in need is a friend indeed

89] No misfortune will go on forever

90] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

91] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

92] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

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

94] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

95] If you play with fire you get burnt

96] What the king wills, that the law wills

97] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

98] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

99] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

100] One cannot put back the clock