Famous Proverbs

1] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

3] Rome was not built in a day

4] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

5] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

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

7] The day obliterates the promise of the might

8] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

9] Beware of him who makes thee presents

10] Learning is the eye of the mind

11] Every flow must have its ebb

12] Wink at small faults

13] Never say die

14] The garment worn determines how one is served

15] Precepts may lead but examples draw

16] A good paymaster never wants workmen

17] When the cat is away, the mice will play

18] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

19] We live laws, not by examples

20] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

21] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

22] Dying men speak true

23] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

24] The rich knows not who is his friend

25] The wish is father to the thought

26] Handsome is as handsome does

27] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

28] Youth and age will never agree

29] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

30] The longest day must have an end

31] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

32] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

33] Every oak has been an acorn

34] Two wrongs do not make a right

35] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

36] One good turn deserves another

37] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

38] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

39] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

40] God’s help is better than the early rising

41] A true friend is forever a friend

42] Truth is mighty and will prevail

43] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

44] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

45] Fish and guests smell in three days

46] Rip not up old sores

47] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

48] No man is indispensable

49] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

50] Union (or Unity) is strength

51] Like mistress, like maid

52] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

53] Never grieve for what you cannot help

54] Help a lame dog over a stile

55] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

56] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

57] Nature is conquered by obeying her

58] A good example is the best sermon

59] Out of sight, out of mind

60] There is a black sheep in every flock

61] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

62] Spend and be free, but make no waste

63] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

64] Walls have ears

65] Beauty fades like a flower.

66] A great city, a great solitude

67] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

69] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

70] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

71] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

72] A rich man’s joke is always funny

73] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

74] Virtue joints man to god

75] We soon believe what we desire

76] Virtue is its own reward

77] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

78] No wrong without a remedy

79] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

80] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

81] He knows which side his bread is buttered

82] There is no smoke without fire

83] All doors open to courtesy

84] The dog is a lion in his own house

85] Old cattle breed not

86] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

87] Variety is charming

88] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

89] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

90] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

91] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

92] Many eyes upon the king

93] Love will go through stone walls

94] Do not kick against the pricks

95] You can’t tell a book by its cover

96] Death does not recognize strength

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

98] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

99] Respect is greater from a distance

100] The sun shines upon all alike.