Famous Proverbs

1] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

2] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

3] A bad workman always blames his tools

4] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

5] Health and wealth create beauty

6] You can’t take it with you when you die

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

8] One is not smelt where all stink

9] New brooms sweep clean

10] A word is enough to the wise

11] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

12] Every cloud has a silver lining

13] A light purse makes a heavy heart

14] Curiosity killed the cat.

15] Half a word is enough for a wise man

16] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

17] Water is the king of food

18] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

19] First come, first served

20] All things require skills but an appetite

21] The best things carried to excess are wrong

22] Every man to his trade.

23] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

24] What the king wills, that the law wills

25] In everything consider the end

26] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

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

28] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

29] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

30] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

31] Bad news travels fast

32] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

33] Haste makes waste

34] Too much hope deceives

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

36] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

37] We shall lie all alike in our graves

38] A man’s studies pass in to his character

39] Self-praise is no recommendation

40] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

41] Judge not of men and things at first sight

42] Better to wear out than rust out

43] You never know your luck

44] To err is human

45] The tongue stings

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

47] Cheap is dear in the long run.

48] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

49] You cannot make a crab walk straight

50] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

51] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

52] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

53] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

54] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

55] Often and little eating makes a man fat

56] Might is right

57] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

58] Dog does not eat dog

59] It is too late to look up after you have collided

60] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

61] Better the last smile than the first laugh

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

63] Innocence is no protection

64] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

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

66] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

67] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

68] The unexpected always happens.

69] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

70] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

71] Fair exchange is no robbery

72] Great hopes make great men

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

74] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

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

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

77] Good fences make good neighbours

78] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

79] The love of money is the root of all evil

80] Better to ask the way than go astray.

81] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

82] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

83] The best wine comes from an old vessel

84] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

85] Every beginning is hard

86] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

87] Poor folk fare the best

88] Kingdoms divided soon fall

89] Do not triumph before the victory

90] Custom reconciles us to everything

91] Love knows no limit

92] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

93] Judge not the tree by its bark

94] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

95] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

96] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

97] There is many a fair thing full false

98] Work won’t kill but worry will.

99] The absent party is always to blame.

100] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe