Famous Proverbs

1] The longest day must have an end

2] Petty laws breed great crimes

3] No day so clear but has dark clouds

4] Much babbling is not without offence

5] Do right and fear no man

6] Every shoe fits not every foot

7] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

8] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

9] Sow thin and mow thin

10] A good wife makes a good husband

11] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

12] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

13] Grin and bear it

14] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

15] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

16] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

17] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

18] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

19] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

20] Virtue is its own reward

21] There is no rose without a thorn

22] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

23] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

24] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

25] If you want peace, prepare for war

26] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

27] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

28] Don’t ride the high horse

29] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

30] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

31] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

32] Too long burden makes weary bones

33] God sends cold after Clothes

34] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

35] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

36] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

37] Names are debts

38] There’s a time and place for everything

39] Go while the going is good

40] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

41] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

42] Success makes a fool seem wise.

43] Gossiping and lying go together

44] He who wills the end, Wills the means

45] Affection blinds reason

46] A man may bear till his back breaks

47] Everything in moderation.

48] He that wants health wants all

49] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

50] Poverty is no sin

51] Better late than never

52] The best wine comes from an old vessel

53] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

54] The devil lurks behind the cross

55] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

56] Busiest men find the most time

57] Love conquers all

58] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

59] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

60] Do not wear out your welcome

61] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

62] Trust not the many-minded populace

63] Experience is the mother of wisdom

64] What can’t be cured must be endured

65] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

66] A man in debt is caught in a net

67] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

68] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

69] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

70] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

71] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

72] One lie makes many

73] He who begins many things, finishes but few

74] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

75] III counsel mars all

76] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

77] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

78] Sweet are the uses of adversity

79] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

80] The greatest talkers are the least doers

81] Blood will have blood

82] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

83] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

84] Bear with evil and expect good

85] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

86] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

87] Flesh is frail

88] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

89] Adventures are to be adventurous

90] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

91] The deed comes back upon the doer.

92] Cleanliness is next to godliness

93] No man fears what he has seen grow

94] Once a use and ever a custom

95] The best things in life are free

96] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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

98] Big words seldom go with good deeds

99] The beaten road is the safest

100] Time and tide wait for no man