Famous Proverbs

1] Many words, many buffets

2] All that glitters is not gold

3] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

4] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

5] New meat begets a new appetite

6] There’s a black sheep in every flock

7] The last drop makes the cup run over

8] Money can influence even the spirits

9] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

10] Much would have more

11] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

12] Union (or Unity) is strength

13] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

14] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

15] To err is human

16] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

17] His own ingenuity pricks him.

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

19] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

20] Love sees no fault

21] Learning is the eye of the mind

22] Better an apple given than eaten

23] Where god will help, nothing does harm

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

25] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

26] Soon gotten, soon spent

27] Much meat, much malady

28] Faint heart never won fair lady

29] Every shoe fits not every foot

30] The receiver is as bad as the thief

31] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

32] Time flees without a delay

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

34] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

35] A prophet is without honour in his own country

36] He who pays the piper calls the tune

37] The best of friends must part

38] The tongue stings

39] First think, and then speak

40] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

41] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

42] Better say noting than no to the purpose

43] They say so’ is half a lie

44] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

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

46] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

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

48] The best things carried to excess are wrong

49] Appetite comes with eating

50] Good words are worth much and cost little

51] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

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

53] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

54] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

55] Money is the only monarch

56] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

57] Poor folk fare the best

58] Every flow must have its ebb

59] One man’s loss is another’s gain

60] Forgive and forget

61] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

62] More have repented speech than silence

63] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

64] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

65] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

66] Experience must be bought

67] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

68] Everything in moderation.

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

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

71] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

72] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

73] He conquers who endures

74] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

75] Hunger is sharper than the sword

76] Better eye sore than al blind

77] Nature abhors a vacuum

78] Friends are thieves of time

79] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

80] Fair face, foul heart

81] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

82] What is the mother of industry

83] Better no doctor at all than three.

84] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

85] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

86] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

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

88] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

89] Once a knave, always a knave

90] A jest breaks no bones

91] Better are small fish than an empty dish

92] Too much hope deceives

93] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

94] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

95] Let not your tongue run at rover

96] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

97] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

98] A man may learn wit every day.

99] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

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