Famous Proverbs

1] Enough is enough

2] Too much curiosity lost paradise

3] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

4] Mirth is the sugar of life

5] New things are fair

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

7] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

8] The best things in life are free

9] Our own opinion is never wrong

10] Spare the rod and spoil the child

11] A man may learn wit every day.

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

13] Seek and you shall find

14] A light purse makes a heavy heart

15] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

16] Good words are worth much and cost little

17] Have two strings to your bow

18] Wrong has no warrant

19] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

20] Time flees without a delay

21] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

22] The weeds overgrow the corn.

23] No man limps because another is hurt

24] All that glitters is not gold

25] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

26] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

27] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

28] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

29] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

30] Words and feathers the wind carries away

31] Coming events cast their shadows before

32] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

33] Poverty parts friendship

34] Men do more things through habit than reason

35] Better beg than steal.

36] Every little helps

37] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

38] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

39] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

40] Who greases his way travels easily

41] You can’t clap with one hand

42] You may know by a handful the whole sack

43] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

44] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

45] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

46] Dying is as natural as living

47] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

48] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

49] Self do, self have

50] Men make houses, women make homes

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

52] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

53] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

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

55] The world is full of fools

56] What can’t be cured must be endured

57] The more you have the more you want

58] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

59] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

60] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

62] True gold is not transformed by fire

63] The weeds overgrow the corn.

64] Hard cases make bad law

65] Big fish eat little fish

66] Better bend than break

67] Eat to live and not live to eat.

68] Great trees keep down the little ones

69] First impressions are the most lasting

70] One father is more than a hundred school masters

71] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

72] God is always on the side of the big battalions

73] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

74] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

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

76] The labourer is worthy of his hire

77] Through obedience learn to command.

78] Like master, like man

79] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

80] Wrong has no warrant

81] Silence gives (or means) consent

82] A good example is the best sermon

83] What’s done is done

84] Heaven helps those who help themselves

85] Union (or Unity) is strength

86] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

87] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

88] First think, and then speak

89] It takes two to make a quarrel

90] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

91] One must howl with the wolves

92] Half a loaf is better than do bread

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

94] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

95] He who does no good, does evil enough

96] Laws were made to be broke

97] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

98] Love your friend with his fault

99] The more cost, the more honour

100] Prove your friend ere you have need