Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

2] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

3] He would command must serve

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

5] Old foxes want no tutors

6] Care is no cure

7] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

8] We have all been once in our life

9] Fine feathers make fine birds.

10] The world is full of fools

11] Company in misery makes it light

12] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

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

14] Anger managers everything badly.

15] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

16] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

17] One is not smelt where all stink

18] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

19] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

20] Learn not and know not

21] That which Nature paints never fades

22] Pride goes before a fall

23] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

24] Who suffers much is silent

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

26] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

27] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

28] Brevity is the soul of wit

29] United we stand, divided we fall

30] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

31] There is nothing like being on the safe side

32] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

33] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

34] He stands not surely that never slips

35] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

36] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

37] All covet all lose.

38] He that cannot ask, cannot live

39] Even reckoning makes long friends

40] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

41] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

42] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

43] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

44] Ill news comes apace.

45] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

46] A black hen lays a white egg

47] A change is as good as rest

48] A good paymaster needs no surety

49] The bait hides the hook

50] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

51] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

52] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

53] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

54] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

55] Custom makes all things easy

56] His own ingenuity pricks him.

57] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

58] Some are wise and some are otherwise

59] Half a word is enough for a wise man

60] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

61] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

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

63] Keep something for a rainy day

64] Nothing succeeds like success

65] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

66] He that speaks not, God hears not

67] There’s no place like home

68] III luck is good for something

69] Paddle your own canoe

70] A healthy man is a successful man

71] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

72] Covetousness breaks the sack

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

74] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

75] Good luck beats early rising

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

77] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

78] Money refused loses its brightness

79] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

80] Garbage in, garbage out

81] The weakest goes to the wall

82] If the cap fits, wear it

83] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

84] A hungry man is angry man

85] Little things are great to little men

86] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

87] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

88] He who envies admits his inferiority

89] Nature is content with little.

90] When wine sinks, words swim

91] Don’t meet trouble half-way

92] Children should be seen and not heard

93] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

94] Work expands so as to fill the time available

95] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

96] He that brings good news, knocks hard

97] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

98] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

99] Love is without reason

100] Patience surpasses learning