Famous Proverbs

1] Remember, you are but a man

2] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

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

4] The grace of God enough

5] A crust is better than no bread.

6] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

7] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

8] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

9] Where there is peace, there is blessing

10] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

11] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

12] Children learn to creep ere they can go

13] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

14] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

15] Common fame is a liar

16] No man limps because another is hurt

17] The receiver is as bad as the thief

18] Don’t tell tales out of school

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

20] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

21] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

22] Many dishes make many diseases

23] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

24] If today will not, tomorrow may

25] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

26] Empty vessels make the most noise

27] All cats are grey in the dark

28] Busiest men find the most time

29] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

30] Good counsel never comes amiss

31] Fortune is blind

32] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

33] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

34] The best is often the enemy of the good

35] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

36] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

37] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

38] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

39] No day so clear but has dark clouds

40] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

41] Don’t try to run before you walk

42] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

43] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

44] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

45] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

46] Exchange is no robbery

47] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

48] A parrot will only say what it is taught

49] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

50] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

51] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

52] Repentance is a bitter physic

53] Like master, like man

54] Poverty is the mother of crime

55] A beggar can never be bankrupt

56] Knowledge is power

57] A man’s wealth is his enemy

58] Love is without reason

59] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

60] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

61] Health is better than wealth

62] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

63] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

64] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

65] To err is human

66] Lucky men need no counsel

67] The first blow is half the battle

68] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

69] Without luck, it is better not to be born

70] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

71] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

72] Truth conquers all things

73] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

74] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

75] Each day brings its own bread

76] One swallow does not make a summer

77] Death alone can kill hope

78] Marriage is a lottery

79] Let us do evil that good may come

80] Liars should have good memories

81] He that repairs not a part, builds all

82] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

83] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

84] When meat is in anger is out

85] When bees area old, they yield n honey

86] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

87] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

88] A word is enough to the wise

89] What’s done is done

90] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

91] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

92] Wise men propose, and fools determine

93] Habit is second nature

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

95] Possibilities are infinite

96] Much would have more

97] Comparisons are odious

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

99] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

100] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow