Famous Proverbs

1] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

2] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

3] The hand that gives, gathers

4] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

5] A little is better than none

6] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

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

8] It is too late to look up after you have collided

9] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

10] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

11] At open doors, dogs come in

12] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

13] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

14] The more cost, the more honour

15] Put not the bucket too often in the well

16] Change brings life

17] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

18] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

19] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

20] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

21] Spend and be free, but make no waste

22] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

23] Bear and forbear

24] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

25] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

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

27] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

28] Respect is greater from a distance

29] A man can die but once

30] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

31] A good heart cannot lie.

32] A word to the wise is enough

33] Distance lends enchantment to the view

34] No road is long with good company

35] It is easier to pull down than to build

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

37] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

38] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

39] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

40] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

41] Live and let live

42] Take away fuel, take away flame

43] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

44] Small is beautiful

45] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

46] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

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

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

49] None but the brave deserves the fair

50] Coming events cast their shadows before

51] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

52] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

53] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

54] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

55] There is none misfortune cannot reach

56] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

57] Four eyes see better than two.

58] A door must be either shut or open

59] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

60] All men are mortal

61] Make the best of a bad bargain

62] Bold men have generous hearts

63] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

64] A true friend is forever a friend

65] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

66] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

67] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

68] Talk much end err much

69] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

70] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

71] It is more blessed to give than to receive

72] Time has wings

73] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

74] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

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

76] Take things as you find them

77] Patience surpasses learning

78] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

79] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

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

81] The thread breaks where it is weakest

82] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

83] Better learn late than never

84] He that will thrive must rise at five

85] You cannot make a crab walk straight

86] Good wine needs no bush

87] God made the country ,and man made the town

88] One thief will not rob another

89] Give and spend, and God will send

90] Silence and thinking can no man offend

91] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

92] A good lawyer must be a great liar

93] Every man is his own worst enemy

94] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

95] Parents are patterns

96] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

97] What is money to a cat?

98] Look before you leap

99] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

100] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right