Famous Proverbs

1] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

2] That which is easily done is soon believed

3] Little things are pretty

4] Dead dogs bark not

5] Nothing comes from nothing

6] Children and chickens must be always picking

7] A burnt child dreads the fire

8] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

9] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

10] A good tongue is a good weapon

11] Vice makes virtue shine

12] Custom makes all things easy

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

14] Think of ease, but work on.

15] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

16] Little things are great to little men

17] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

18] Hear twice before you speak once

19] Experience is the mother of wisdom

20] Beauty draws more than oxen

21] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

22] Cheats never prosper

23] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

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

25] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

26] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

27] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

28] Love knows hidden paths

29] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

30] Beauty fades like a flower.

31] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

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

33] The longest way round is the shortest way home

34] Beauty is but skin-deep

35] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

36] Goodness is better than beauty

37] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

38] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

39] East or west, home is best

40] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

41] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

42] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

43] Of a new prince, new bondage

44] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

45] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

46] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

47] Dreams are lies

48] It is too late to husband when all is spent

49] Great barkers are no biters

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

51] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

52] One barber shaves another gratis

53] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

54] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

55] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

56] Go while the going is good

57] Tempt not a desperate man

58] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

59] Set a thief to catch a thief

60] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

61] Easier said than done

62] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

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

64] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

65] Where there are reeds, there is water

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

67] Empty vessels make the most noise

68] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

69] Money refused loses its brightness

70] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

71] What is money to a cat?

72] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

73] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

74] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

75] Far fowls have fair feather

76] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

77] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

78] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

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

80] One cannot put back the clock

81] Tell a lie and stick to it.

82] Live and let live

83] Success makes a fool seem wise.

84] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

85] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

86] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

87] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

88] Lovers are madmen

89] Money can influence even the spirits

90] Love knows hidden paths

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

92] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

93] Blue are the far away hills

94] What will not money do?

95] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

96] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

97] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

98] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

99] Charity begins at home.

100] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.