Famous Proverbs

1] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

2] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

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

4] Anger without power is folly

5] As you bake, so shall you eat.

6] Desires are nourished by delays

7] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

8] Four eyes see more than two

9] Marriage makes or mars a man

10] Care killed the cat

11] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

12] It takes all sorts to make a world

13] Waste makes wants

14] He that burns most, shines most

15] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

16] The great fish eat up the small

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

18] God arms the harmless

19] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

20] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

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

22] Four eyes see better than two.

23] Gossiping and lying go together

24] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

25] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

26] Human blood is all of a colour

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

28] Kind hearts are more than coronets

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

30] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

31] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

32] Better say noting than no to the purpose

33] The good intention excuses the bad action

34] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

35] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

36] A good name is sooner lost than won

37] Practice is the science that gives confidence

38] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

39] Fools grow without watering.

40] So many countries, so many customs

41] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

42] Gluttony kills more than the sword

43] He would command must serve

44] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

45] A good husband makes a good wife

46] First catch your hare

47] A bully never grows up.

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

49] The course of true love never did run smooth

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

51] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

52] A burnt child dreads the fire

53] Do not triumph before the victory

54] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

55] Like father, like son

56] All men are mortal

57] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

58] Praise no man till he is dead.

59] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

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

61] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

62] The best go first

63] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

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

65] Precept begins, examples accomplish

66] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

67] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

68] Children and chickens must be always picking

69] Hear twice before you speak once

70] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

71] Better sit still than rise and fall

72] Health is great riches

73] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

74] Lend never that thing you needed most

75] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

76] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

77] Two wrongs do not make a right

78] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

79] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

80] In haste is error

81] He is lifeless that is faultless

82] Think of ease, but work on.

83] The love of money is the root of all evil

84] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

85] No man so good but another may be as good as he

86] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

87] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

88] Even a worm will turn

89] Live and Learn

90] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

91] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

92] Of a new prince, new bondage

93] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

94] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

95] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

96] Great trees keep down the little ones

97] The coward threatens only when he is safe

98] Let bygones be bygones

99] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

100] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others