Famous Proverbs

1] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

2] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

3] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

4] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

5] When bees area old, they yield n honey

6] The first step is the hardest

7] A good conscience is a constant feast

8] Patience is a plaster for all sores

9] He knows most who speaks least

10] Little things are pretty

11] A good husband makes a good wife

12] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

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

14] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

15] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

16] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

17] Little things are great to little men

18] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

19] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

20] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

21] Might overcome right.

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

23] Without diligence, no prize

24] Change of pasture makes fat calves

25] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

26] Wiles help weak folk

27] Life means strife

28] Make haste slowly

29] Pursuits become habits

30] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

31] Where there is peace, there is blessing

32] He has not lost all who has one cast left

33] Blood will have blood

34] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

35] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

36] Where god will help, nothing does harm

37] Easy come, easy go

38] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

39] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

40] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

41] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

42] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

43] No man is indispensable

44] He may find fault that cannot mend

45] The longest day must have an end

46] Handsome is as handsome does

47] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

48] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

49] A closed mouth catches no files

50] Every man praises his own wares

51] A good wife is a good prize

52] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

53] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

54] There is a black sheep in every flock

55] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

56] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

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

58] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

59] Idle folks lack no excuses

60] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

61] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

62] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

63] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

64] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

65] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

66] Keep something for a rainy day

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

68] All’s fair in love and war

69] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

70] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

71] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

72] An old fox is not easily snared

73] Beware of no man more than himself

74] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

75] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

76] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

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

78] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

79] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

80] Every flow must have its ebb

81] Self do, self have

82] All cats are grey in the dark

83] Sorrow will pay no debt

84] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

85] In my own house, I am king

86] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

87] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

88] That which Nature paints never fades

89] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

90] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

91] Content is more than a kingdom

92] All is fair in love and war

93] Example is the greatest of all seducers

94] One is what one eats

95] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

96] A fool always rushes to the fore.

97] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

98] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

99] A bribe will enter without knocking

100] A good beginning is half the battle.