Famous Proverbs

1] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

2] The ant had wings to her hurt

3] Like question, like answer.

4] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

5] Everything would fain live

6] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

7] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

8] Go while the going is good

9] Lavishness is not generosity

10] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

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

12] The axe falls on a straight tree first

13] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

14] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

15] Death does not recognize strength

16] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

17] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

18] Wise men silent, fools talk

19] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

20] Ready money is a ready remedy

21] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

22] Envy never enriched any man.

23] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

24] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

25] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

26] Better are small fish than an empty dish

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

28] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

29] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

30] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

31] Never refuse a good offer

32] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

33] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

34] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

35] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

36] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

37] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

38] Life is short and time is swift

39] Success has many friends

40] Laughter makes good blood

41] Everything comes to him who waits

42] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

43] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

44] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

45] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

46] Do unto others as they should do unto you

47] Anger managers everything badly.

48] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

49] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

50] Every path has a puddle

51] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

52] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

53] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

54] A good heart cannot lie.

55] Precept begins, examples accomplish

56] Spread the table, and contention will cease

57] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

58] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

59] A loveless life is a living death

60] The good intention excuses the bad action

61] The value of money is having it.

62] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

63] All lay loads on a willing horse

64] East or west, home is best

65] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

66] Grasp all, lose all

67] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

68] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

69] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

70] Six feet of earth make all men equal

71] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

72] Crime does not pay

73] A good payer is master of another’s purse

74] Every man has his faults

75] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

76] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

77] One lie makes many

78] Much science, much sorrow

79] A good beginning is half the battle.

80] Use makes mastery

81] Be still and have thy will

82] The sign brings customers

83] You may have too much of a good thing

84] We live by laws, not by examples

85] Heaven helps those who help themselves

86] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

87] In my own house, I am king

88] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

89] More haste, less speed

90] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

91] Praise no man till he is dead.

92] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

93] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

94] A good name is a rich heritage

95] Better be a fool than a knave

96] Everything is good in its season

97] There is no fool like an old fool

98] Soon hot, soon cold

99] The voice is the best music

100] The result justifies the deed