Famous Proverbs

1] No choice amongst stinking fish

2] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

3] Better an apple given than eaten

4] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

5] Books and friends should be few but good

6] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

7] Corn him well and he will work better

8] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

9] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

10] No one betrays himself by silence

11] Slow but sure wins the race

12] Old cattle breed not

13] One reason is as good as fifty

14] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

15] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

16] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

17] Nature is conquered by obeying her

18] Least said, soonest mended

19] He travels the fastest who travels alone

20] No convenience without its inconvenience

21] No tie can oblige the perfidious

22] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

23] Little by little and bit by bit.

24] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

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

26] Some are wise and some are otherwise

27] Learn to walk before you run

28] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

29] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

30] Too much money makes one mad

31] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

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

33] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

34] Union (or Unity) is strength

35] A bully is always a coward

36] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

37] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

38] Dirty water does not wash clean.

39] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

40] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

41] Woes unite foes

42] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

43] He who comes late must eat what is left

44] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

45] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

46] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

47] Might is right

48] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

49] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

50] The Pen is mightier than the sword

51] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

52] Silence and thinking can no man offend

53] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

54] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

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

56] A good conscience is a sure card

57] Like breeds like

58] Poverty is the mother of crime

59] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

61] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

62] Things past cannot be recalled

63] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

64] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

65] A good garden may have some ill weeds

66] He stands not surely that never slips

67] A stitch in time saves nine

68] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

69] Soon hot, soon cold

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

71] One foot is better than two crutches

72] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

73] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

74] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

75] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

76] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

77] Advise none to marry or to go to war

78] The mob has many heads but no brains

79] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

80] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

81] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

82] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

83] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

84] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

85] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

86] Travel broadens the mind

87] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

88] He laughs best who laughs last

89] Worse things happen at sea

90] Might knows no right

91] We have all been once in our life

92] If you want peace, prepare for war

93] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

94] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

95] All truths are not to be told

96] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

97] All good things must come to an end

98] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

99] Love is without reason

100] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way