Famous Proverbs

1] Few words are best

2] Bear with evil and expect good

3] A fool believes everything

4] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

5] Better be alone than in bad company

6] Choose thy company before thy drink

7] All’s well that ends well

8] Easier said than done

9] All cats are grey in the dark

10] We have all been once in our life

11] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

12] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

13] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

14] What is worse than ill luck?

15] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

16] Look on the bright side

17] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

18] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

19] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

20] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

21] There’s a black sheep in every flock

22] In everything consider the end

23] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

24] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

25] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

26] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

27] Every man must carry his own cross

28] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

29] Advise none to marry or to go to war

30] Old cattle breed not

31] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

32] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

33] See which way the cat jumps

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

35] Necessity knows no law

36] Almost’ never killed a fly.

37] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

38] It costs more to do ill than to do well

39] Every little helps

40] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

41] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

42] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

43] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

44] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

45] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

46] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

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

48] Better no doctor at all than three.

49] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

50] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

51] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

52] Bold men have generous hearts

53] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

54] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

55] Dead men don’t bite

56] It costs more to do ill than to do well

57] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

58] Garbage in, garbage out

59] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

60] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

61] A constant guest is never welcome

62] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

63] Dirty linen should be washed at home

64] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

65] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

66] To teach is to learn twice over

67] Every man to his trade.

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

69] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

70] Money has no smell

71] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

72] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

73] Revenge never repairs an injury

74] Four eyes see better than two.

75] Remember, you are but a man

76] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

77] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

78] Virtue joints man to god

79] No man so good but another may be as good as he

80] God arms the harmless

81] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

82] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

83] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

84] The absent party is always to blame.

85] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

86] Never do evil that good may come of it

87] A crust is better than no bread.

88] Appetite comes with eating

89] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

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

91] No wrong without a remedy

92] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

93] Virtue is its own reward

94] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

95] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

96] Great trees keep down the little ones

97] Time flees without a delay

98] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

99] Never do things by halves

100] No hair so small but has his shadow