Famous Proverbs

1] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

2] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

3] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

4] Coming events cast their shadows before

5] Ale will make a cat speak

6] The best of men are but men at best.

7] The best fish swim near the bottom

8] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

9] Self do, self have

10] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

11] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

12] Everything must have a beginning

13] Every man to his trade.

14] Ignorance is the peace of life

15] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

16] A little help is worth a deal of pity

17] Liars should have good memories

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

19] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

20] Bear and forbear

21] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

22] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

23] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

24] It is never too late to mend

25] Barking dogs seldom bite

26] Life begins only in success

27] Nothing succeeds like success

28] Use makes mastery

29] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

30] Far fowls have fair feather

31] One potter envies another

32] Seek and you shall find

33] Take things as you find them

34] Bad excuses are worse than none.

35] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

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

37] Praises fill not the belly

38] Train the child in the way he should go.

39] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

40] Boys will be boys

41] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

42] The great would have none great, and the little all little

43] Every medal has two sides

44] Half a word is enough for a wise man

45] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

46] No road is long with good company

47] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

48] He that has no shame has no conscience

49] We soon believe what we desire

50] Good is good but better carries it

51] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

52] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

53] See which way the cat jumps

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

55] God arms the harmless

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

57] A good paymaster needs no surety

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

59] Good clothes open all doors

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

61] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

62] All are not saints that go to church

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

64] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

65] The dog that fetches, will carry.

66] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

67] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

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

69] Exchange is no robbery

70] True doctrines require no miracles

71] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

72] You cannot have it both ways

73] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

74] When the word is out it belongs to another

75] Rome was not built in a day

76] Gold is tried in the fire

77] Money refused loses its brightness

78] Through obedience learn to command.

79] Good luck beats early rising

80] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

81] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

82] A man can die but once

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

84] Lookers-on see more than players

85] The more laws, the more offenders

86] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

87] The longest night will have an end

88] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

89] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

90] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

91] Quietness is a great treasure

92] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

93] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

94] One potter envies another

95] He who pays the piper calls the tune

96] A fool may give a wise man counsel

97] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

98] The first step is the only difficulty

99] One is what one eats

100] Young saint, old devil.