Famous Proverbs

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

2] Poverty parts friendship

3] A living dog is better than a dead lion

4] The best go first

5] Let bygones be bygones

6] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

7] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

8] Better eye sore than al blind

9] The best things come in small packages

10] Men are known by the company they keep.

11] An army marches on its stomach

12] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

13] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

14] Much meat, much malady

15] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

16] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

17] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

18] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

19] Where there is no might, right loses itself

20] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

21] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

22] Gluttony kills more than the sword

23] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

24] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

25] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

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

27] Dreams are lies

28] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

29] A traveller may lie with authority

30] Never spur a willing horse

31] Far fowls have fair feather

32] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

33] Where there’s a will there’s a way

34] Walls have ears

35] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

36] A cat has nine lives

37] There is no accounting for tastes

38] A fool believes everything

39] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

40] Soon gotten, soon spent

41] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

42] The value of money is having it.

43] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

44] The coward threatens only when he is safe

45] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

46] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

47] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

48] A penny saved is a penny gained

49] Idle folks lack no excuses

50] Don’t put the cart before the horse

51] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

52] Be still and have thy will

53] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

54] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

55] Love can find a way

56] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

57] A burnt child dreads the fire

58] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

59] Quickly come, quickly go

60] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

61] The course of true love never did run smooth

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

63] Long life has long misery

64] Bad news travels fast

65] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

66] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

67] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

68] New brooms sweep clean

69] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

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

71] He who has seen little marvels much

72] Old foxes want no tutors

73] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

74] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

75] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

76] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

77] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

78] Dreams go by contraries

79] A good tongue is a good weapon

80] A learned man has always riches in himself

81] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

82] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

83] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

84] Tigers and deer do not over.

85] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

86] The absent saint gets no candle

87] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

88] A man in debt is caught in a net

89] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

90] A word is enough to the wise

91] A good name is better than a golden girdle

92] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

93] Too much money makes one mad

94] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

95] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

96] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

97] Erring is not heating

98] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

99] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

100] God provides for him that trusts