Famous Proverbs

1] Bad excuses are worse than none.

2] A joke’s a very serious thing

3] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

4] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

5] Debt is an evil conscience

6] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

7] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

8] Curiosity killed the cat.

9] It is well to live that one may learn

10] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

11] Ready money is a ready remedy

12] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

13] A man may bear till his back breaks

14] Virtue carries a lean purse

15] Two blacks do not make a white

16] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

17] Will is the cause of woe

18] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

19] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

20] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

21] A word to the wise is enough

22] Long life has long misery

23] Every advantage has its disadvantage

24] Love is lawless.

25] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

26] Hunger is sharper than the sword

27] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

28] The more you have the more you want

29] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

30] Whatever man has done, man can do

31] Habit is second nature

32] The last drop makes the cup run over

33] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

34] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

35] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

36] A watched pot never boils

37] Misery loves company.

38] Too much cunning undoes

39] Truth has no need of rhetoric

40] He who last, laughs longest.

41] Common fame is a liar

42] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

43] A word spoken is past recalling

44] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

45] He that cannot ask, cannot live

46] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

47] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

48] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

49] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

50] Live and let live

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

52] Necessity breaks iron

53] Life is short and time is swift

54] A man may bear till his back breaks

55] A light purse makes a heavy heart

56] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

57] Confess and be hanged

58] No sweet without sweat

59] Many a true word is spoken in jest

60] The biter is sometimes bit

61] Time has wings

62] The dog that fetches, will carry.

63] Learn not and know not

64] Never do things by halves

65] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

66] The cobbler should stick to his last

67] Petty laws breed great crimes

68] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

69] One man’s loss is another’s gain

70] What is word but wind?

71] A word before is worth two behind

72] Love me, love the crows on my roof

73] Truth is god’s daughter

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

75] Better children weep than old men

76] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

77] Dogs bark as they are bred.

78] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

79] Between two stools you fall to the ground

80] Make the best of a bad bargain

81] The longest journey starts with a single step

82] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

83] Two blacks do not make a white

84] God provides for him that trusts

85] Tomorrow never comes

86] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

87] Better to ask the way than go astray.

88] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

89] Even silence may be eloquent

90] A man can die but once

91] Honour is the reward of virtue

92] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

93] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

94] Don’t kick against the pricks

95] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

96] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

97] A good name is sooner lost than won

98] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

99] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

100] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none