Famous Proverbs

1] Years know more than books

2] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

3] The more laws, the more offenders

4] Praise is always pleasant

5] There’s always room at the top

6] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

7] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

8] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

9] Go while the going is good

10] Little by little and bit by bit.

11] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

12] Money is the sinew of affairs

13] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

14] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

15] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

16] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

17] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

18] You may have too much of a good thing

19] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

20] All is fair in love and war

21] A rich man’s joke is always funny

22] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

23] A bully never grows up.

24] A loveless life is a living death

25] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

26] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

27] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

28] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

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

30] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

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

32] Love is lawless.

33] Rust wastes more than use

34] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

35] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

36] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

37] No feast lasts forever.

38] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

39] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

40] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

41] A black hen lays a white egg

42] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

43] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

44] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

45] Love is blind

46] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

47] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

48] Hope keeps man alive

49] He travels the fastest who travels alone

50] Let like mate with like

51] Dogs bark as they are bred.

52] The greatest talkers are the least doers

53] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

54] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

55] Wise men propose, and fools determine

56] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

57] No man is wise at all times

58] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

59] Never too late to repent

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

61] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

62] In everything consider the end

63] A crust is better than no bread.

64] The axe falls on a straight tree first

65] Health without money is half an ague

66] To teach is to learn twice over

67] An army marches on its stomach

68] It never rains it pours

69] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

70] Nothing comes from nothing

71] Good is good but better carries it

72] Common fame is a liar

73] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

74] There is safety in numbers

75] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

76] Bind the sack before it be full

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

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

79] Between two stools you fall to the ground

80] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

81] The devil looks after his own

82] A constant guest is never welcome

83] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

84] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

85] He that lends, gives

86] Wedlock is padlock

87] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

88] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

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

90] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

91] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

92] The hand that gives, gathers

93] Pitchers have ears

94] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

95] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

96] It is as natural to die as to be born

97] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

98] The goat must browse where she is tied

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

100] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet