Famous Proverbs

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

2] Tomorrow is another day

3] The great would have none great, and the little all little

4] Rome was not built in a day

5] If you play with fire you get burnt

6] It is misery enough to have once been happy

7] There is no blindness like ignorance

8] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

9] Good hand, good hire

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

11] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

12] Kill two birds with one stone

13] He that is down need fear no fall

14] What’s done is done

15] Speech is silver, silence is golden

16] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

17] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

18] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

19] Like question, like answer.

20] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

21] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

22] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

23] What’s done is done

24] Money refused loses its brightness

25] You cannot make bricks without straw

26] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

27] Think of ease, but work on.

28] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

29] The darkest place is under the candlestick

30] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

31] East or west, home is best

32] It is the unexpected that always happens

33] Live and Learn

34] He knows the water best who has waded through it

35] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

36] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

37] The last suitor wins the maid

38] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

39] No pains, no gains

40] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

41] Fortune is blind

42] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

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

44] Like father, like son

45] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

46] Where there’s muck, there’s money

47] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

48] An old horse knows the route

49] The garment worn determines how one is served

50] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

51] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

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

53] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

54] Silence is also speech

55] Example is better than precept

56] A goose drinks as much as gander

57] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

58] Every oak has been an acorn

59] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

60] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

61] Hunger is the teacher of many

62] What is word but wind?

63] Too far east is west

64] Spread the table, and contention will cease

65] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

66] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

67] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

68] The ant had wings to her hurt

69] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

70] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

71] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

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

73] All for one, and one for all.

74] Ambition makes people diligent

75] Never refuse a good offer

76] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

77] Divine grace was never slow

78] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

79] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

80] Divide and rule

81] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

82] He that has an ill name is half hanged

83] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

84] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

85] Never do evil that good may come of it

86] The pen is the tongue of the hand

87] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

88] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

89] More haste, less speed

90] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

91] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

92] First try and then trust

93] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

94] Charity excuseth not cheating.

95] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

96] Our own opinion is never wrong

97] What is new cannot be true

98] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

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

100] Through hardship to the stars