Famous Proverbs

1] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

2] Poverty is no sin

3] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

4] All must be as God will

5] He that has no shame has no conscience

6] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

7] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

8] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

9] Where there are reeds, there is water

10] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

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

12] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

13] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

14] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

15] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

16] Idle folks lack no excuses

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

18] We are all Adam’s children

19] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

20] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

21] God is always on the side of the big battalions

22] Practice is the science that gives confidence

23] Nothing is so certain as death

24] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

25] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

26] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

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

28] Charity begins at home.

29] Dreams are lies

30] Weeds need no sowing

31] All lay loads on a willing horse

32] Fine words dress ill deeds

33] Never do things by halves

34] It is a shame to be shameless

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

36] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

37] Marriages are made in heaven

38] Don’t cry before you are hurt

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

40] Little and often fills the purse

41] Books and friends should be few but good

42] He may find fault that cannot mend

43] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

44] The world is full of fools

45] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

46] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

47] Sow thin and mow thin

48] Take the tone of the company you are in

49] It never rains it pours

50] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

51] The greatest step is that out of doors

52] White there’s life there’s hope

53] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

54] Love is sweet torment

55] Homer sometimes nods

56] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

57] Good ware makes quick market

58] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

59] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

60] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

61] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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

63] Let like mate with like

64] Delay is the antidote of anger

65] All cats are grey in the dark

66] You cannot serve God and Mammon

67] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

68] Wise men propose, and fools determine

69] After a storm comes a calm

70] He that brings good news, knocks hard

71] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

72] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

73] Never grieve for what you cannot help

74] He knows which side his bread is buttered

75] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

76] By falling we learn to go safely

77] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

78] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

79] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

80] Wisdom is better than strength

81] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

82] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

83] Bear and forbear

84] Better belly burst than good meat lost

85] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

86] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

87] Idle folks lack no excuses

88] Never spur a willing horse

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

90] It takes two to make a quarrel

91] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

92] A good Conscience is the best divinity

93] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

94] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

95] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

96] The eye is bigger than the belly

97] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

98] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

99] Wrong never comes right

100] He who sows, trusts in God