Famous Proverbs

1] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

2] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

3] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

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

5] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

6] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

7] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

8] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

9] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

10] Crust is better than no bread

11] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

12] It is the unexpected that always happens

13] Long absent, soon forgotten

14] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

15] Beware of no man more than himself

16] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

17] Fortune is blind

18] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

19] It is a shame to be shameless

20] Gold is tried in the fire

21] There is nothing permanent except change

22] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

23] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

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

25] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

26] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

27] The best go first

28] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

29] A good name is better than a golden girdle

30] He who never was sick dies the first fit

31] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

32] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

33] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

34] Children learn to creep ere they can go

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

36] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

37] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

39] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

40] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

41] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

42] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

43] Light grows the burden which is well borne

44] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

45] He who comes late must eat what is left

46] Covetousness is the root of all evil

47] Don’t kick against the pricks

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

49] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

50] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

51] The voice is the best music

52] Little by little and bit by bit.

53] The garment worn determines how one is served

54] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

55] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

56] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

57] There is many a true word spoken in jest

58] Self do, self have

59] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

60] The weakest goes to the wall

61] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

62] Men are not to be measured in inches

63] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

64] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

65] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

66] Dog does not eat dog

67] The unexpected always happens.

68] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

69] A good beginning is half the battle.

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

71] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

72] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

73] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

74] A healthy man is a successful man

75] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

76] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

77] It will be the same a hundred years hence

78] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

79] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

80] Jack is as good as his master

81] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

82] Learning is the eye of the mind

83] A man can do no more than he can

84] Shrouds have no pockets

85] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

86] A jest breaks no bones

87] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

88] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

89] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

90] An obedient wife commands her husband

91] He that eats well should do his duty well

92] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

93] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

94] Man punishes the action but God the intention

95] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

96] A rich man’s joke is always funny

97] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

98] What is a workman without his tools?

99] Hungry bellies have no ears

100] There is no royal road to learning