Famous Proverbs

1] Talk much end err much

2] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

3] Rust wastes more than use

4] Spend and be free, but make no waste

5] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

6] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

7] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

8] No man limps because another is hurt

9] At open doors, dogs come in

10] You may know by a handful the whole sack

11] The highest tree has the greatest fall

12] Sickness shows us what we are

13] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

14] A word to the wise is enough

15] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

16] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

17] The poor suffer all the wrong

18] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

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

20] One is not smelt where all stink

21] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

22] Long life has long misery

23] Live not to eat, but eat to live

24] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

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

26] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

27] Poverty is the mother of crime

28] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

29] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

30] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

31] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

32] The garment worn determines how one is served

33] Many a little makes a mickle

34] New lords, new laws

35] A jack of all traders is master of none

36] The day obliterates the promise of the might

37] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

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

39] Where god will help, nothing does harm

40] Every medal has two sides

41] Words are but wind

42] Fools rejoice at promises

43] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

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

45] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

46] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

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

48] Look on the bright side

49] Praises fill not the belly

50] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

51] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

52] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

53] A little body often harbours a great soul

54] Content is better than riches

55] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

56] Better be safe than sorry

57] What is the mother of industry

58] None but the brave deserves the fair

59] Slow and steady wins the race

60] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

61] There is nothing permanent except change

62] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

63] A willful man will have his way

64] Our own opinion is never wrong

65] Bad excuses are worse than none.

66] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

67] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

68] Charity excuseth not cheating.

69] Excessive happiness produces pain

70] A fool and his money are soon parted

71] Frugality is the mother of virtue

72] He that pities another remembers himself

73] Even Homer sometimes nods

74] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

75] What is money to a cat?

76] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

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

78] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

79] Long looked for, comes at last

80] Findings are keepings

81] Even reckoning makes long friends

82] A man in debt is caught in a net

83] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

84] Let bygones be bygones

85] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

86] All is fair in love and war

87] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

88] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

89] The game is not worth the candle

90] Diamond cuts diamond

91] Extremity of right is wrong

92] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

93] Wise men silent, fools talk

94] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

95] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

96] The best wine comes from an old vessel

97] None so deaf as those that will not hear

98] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

99] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

100] Stolen pleasures are sweetest