Famous Proverbs

1] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

2] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

3] Big words seldom go with good deeds

4] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

5] Haste makes waste

6] Every may be has a may not be

7] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

8] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

9] Many doctors, death accomplished

10] Money has no smell

11] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

12] Loyalty is worth more than money

13] Variety is the spice of life

14] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

15] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

16] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

17] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

18] The weeds overgrow the corn.

19] The faulty stands on his guard

20] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

21] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

22] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

23] He is wise who looks ahead

24] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

25] No man is born wise or learned

26] A man’s mother is his other God

27] Wise men silent, fools talk

28] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

29] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

30] He that has good money, gives few alms

31] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

32] When meat is in anger is out

33] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

34] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

35] Acorns were good till bread was found

36] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

37] Old vessels must leak

38] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

39] Dreams are lies

40] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

41] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

42] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

43] Work smart; don’t work hard

44] Beggars must not be choosers

45] Necessity knows no law

46] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

47] All things that great men do are well done

48] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

49] Death alone can kill hope

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

51] There’s no great loss without some gain

52] He would command must serve

53] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

54] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

55] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

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

57] A miss is as good as a mile

58] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

59] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

60] Vice makes virtue shine

61] Forecast is better than work-hard

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

63] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

64] Anything will fit a naked man.

65] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

66] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

67] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

68] The best things come in small packages

69] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

70] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

71] Variety takes away satiety

72] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

73] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

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

75] Good is good but better carries it

76] If the cap fits, wear it

77] That which proves too much proves nothing

78] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

79] Hope is the poor man’s bread

80] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

81] Too much cunning undoes

82] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

83] Too far east is west

84] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

85] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

86] Don’t play with fire

87] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

88] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

89] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

90] Now is now, and then was then

91] His bark is worse than his bite

92] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

93] Too much cunning undoes

94] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

95] Prove your friend ere you have need

96] None so blind as those who will not see

97] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

98] No misfortune will go on forever

99] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

100] Great trees keep down the little ones