Dictionary of Famous Proverbs

Zeal when it is virtue, is a dangerous one.If passionate ardour is efficient too, then it is a dangerous situation.Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Enthusiasm without cognition, is like a body without soul.Zeal without prudence is frenzy.Enthusiasm without intelligence is nothing bigger than temporary insanity.

Years know more than books.Books maintain not all that which is experienced by years, so years know more than books.Yelping curse will raise mastiffs.The painful cry of a dog becomes him even greater dog.As a curse, the painful crying of dog makes him a kind of bigger dog.Yesterday will not be called again.Past time never

Wage will get a page.You will get servants if you have the money to hire them.Wake not a sleeping lion.Dangers should not be invited.Wait before you hate.Think twice before hate.What maintains one vice, would bring up two children.Increases your problems.Wait and see.Have patience and look carefully.Walls have ears.One should be watchful while telling a secret.Want

Vainglory blossoms but never bears.Nobody suffers the flowers of false and empty pride.Valour can do little without discretion.Courage needs watchful prudence.Valour that parleys is near yielding.Discussions are always favourable to bravery and courage.Valour would fight, but discretion would run away.Bravery would fight but ‘bravery with watchful’ prudence make you victor.Vanity is the sixth sense.Vanity (Empty

Up the hill favour me, down the hill beware thee.One should be watchful in prosperity more than to adversity.Use makes perfectness.Practice makes perfect.Use the means and God will give the blessing.If you make bad into good, God will bless you.Under the blanket the black one is as good as the white.Nothing is different, all alike.Under

Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.It is good for both the profession because fashion changes often and they must change according to the fashion.Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer.A Thousand pounds bill’s value is more than (fathing) small value coins of thousand pounds.Take all and

Sailor’s fingers must be all fish hooks.Sailor has to be a perfect sea-man.Salt seasons all things.Salt makes tasty all things.Salt water never gives cold.It hath of healing nature against cold.Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he had it.It does not matter that how strong you are because you want

Rain before seven; fine before eleven.Rain forecast.Rather sell than be poor.Selling is a better option than to be live as a poor.Rats desert a sinking ship.Cowards run first and fast too.Raw dads make fat lads.Inexperience of fathers make stupid boys.Rise with the lark and go to the bed with the lamb.Who rises early in the

Quality best is not better than the cheapest.Normally people prefers cheapest that’s why quality best things are not better than those which are cheapest in selling.Quality without quantity is little thought of.One should think quality rather than quantity.Quarelling dogs come halting home.Dogs halt while fighting.Quarrelsome dogs get dirty coats.Dogs get dirty layer on their body

Pain past is pleasure.When the time of sorrow past then you feel pleasure.Painted pictures are dead speakers.Silent message which named as dead speaker.Pale moon doth rain, red moon doth blow; while white moon doth neither rain nor snow.Rain forecasting methods.Pardon all but thyself.Self pardon is more important.Past cannot be recalled.Past is past.Past care, past cure.Past

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.Great persons may ruin when poors stand in the economic storm.Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great.Obedience is a thing which seen in small things than in big.Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.If the raw material is not good

Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.Nameless person never hangs himself for the goodwill of name.Names and natures do often agree.It is not compulsory that name should follow the nature of name. Normally both are different to each other.Names are debts.Debt of honour, you pay for the sake of name’s honour.Narrow gathered

Mad to the world same to oneself.Mad is mad, for himself and others too.Magistracy makes not the man, but discovers what mettle is in him.Dignity of magistrate nothing improves in the man but reflects his natural ardour.Maidens must be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.Merits of maidens.Maidens should be meek while

Labour as long lived, pray as ever dying.A person should work till life but while praying he must pray like last prayer.Labour is love, love is labour.A person should work till life but while praying he must pray like last prayer.Labour conquers all things.One should love hard work and hard working should be love so

Keep a calm sough.Keep a quiet tongue.Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.When you keep good company you are also one of them.Keep some till more will come.One should be waitful to spend, till more will come.Keep the pot boiling.Continual efforts are always good.Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and