Famous Proverbs

1] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

2] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

3] It is useless to flog a dead horse

4] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

5] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

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

7] The race is got by running

8] Diligence is the mother of good luck

9] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

10] Good is good but better carries it

11] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

12] Health is great riches

13] Patient waiters are no losers

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

15] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

16] Brevity is the soul of wit

17] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

18] A good wife makes a good husband

19] Like question, like answer.

20] As soon as there is life there is danger

21] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

22] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

23] Men are not to be measured in inches

24] Dog does not eat dog

25] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

26] A little help is worth a deal of pity

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

28] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

29] He who touches pitch will be defiled

30] Better late than never, but better never late

31] Little things are great to little men

32] Wedlock is padlock

33] Death alone can kill hope

34] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

35] God’s lambs will play.

36] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

37] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

38] What is worth doing is worth doing well

39] A jest breaks no bones

40] As you bake, so shall you eat.

41] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

42] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

43] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

44] Be still and have thy will

45] Better never begin than never make an end

46] The highest branch is not the safest roost

47] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

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

49] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

50] A piece of churchyard fits every body

51] The Pen is mightier than the sword

52] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

53] No feast lasts forever.

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

55] A man may bear till his back breaks

56] A hungry man smells meat afar off

57] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

58] Success has many friends

59] Wisdom is better than strength

60] Self do, self have

61] Heaven helps those who help themselves

62] A crust is better than no bread.

63] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

64] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

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

66] Acorns were good till bread was found

67] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

68] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

69] Spare the rod and spoil the child

70] Dying men speak true

71] Keep something for a rainy day

72] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

73] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

74] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

75] The sign brings customers

76] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

77] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

78] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

79] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

80] The voice is the best music

81] Poverty parts friendship

82] Once a knave, always a knave

83] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

84] Have two strings to your bow

85] Beauty fades like a flower.

86] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

87] Barking dogs seldom bite

88] You can’t take it with you when you die

89] All things for not all persons

90] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

91] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

92] An old man is a bed full of bones

93] Experience is the mother of wisdom

94] Of one ill come many

95] Strength grows stronger by being tried

96] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

97] Better unborn than untaught

98] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

99] Muck and money go together

100] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.