Famous Proverbs

1] Comparisons are odious

2] Better late than never

3] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

4] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

5] Everything in moderation.

6] Every dog has his day

7] Fear of death is worse than death itself

8] The dog that fetches, will carry.

9] Everything comes to him who waits

10] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

11] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

12] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

13] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

14] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

15] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

16] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

17] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

18] The love of money is the root of all evil

19] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

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

21] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

22] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

23] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

24] The ass that brays most eats

25] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

26] Common fame is a liar

27] A goose drinks as much as gander

28] Silence is golden

29] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

30] Of one ill come many

31] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

32] Don’t try to run before you walk

33] The last drop makes the cup run over

34] A golden key opens every door

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

36] There is safety in numbers

37] Garbage in, garbage out

38] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

39] One today is worth two tomorrows

40] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

41] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

42] They also serve who only stand and wait

43] The best is often the enemy of the good

44] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

45] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

46] Every little helps

47] Truth is mighty and will prevail

48] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

49] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

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

51] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

52] One fool praises another

53] Love me, love my dog

54] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

55] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

56] Fair without, false within

57] Men are not to be measured in inches

58] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

59] The eye is bigger than the belly

60] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

61] Old cattle breed not

62] Too much cunning undoes

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

64] Error cannot be defended but by error

65] There is no garden without its weeds

66] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

67] Even silence may be eloquent

68] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

69] Rats know the ways of rats

70] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

71] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

72] The greatest talkers are the least doers

73] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

74] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

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

76] The devil dances in an empty pocket

77] A crowd is not company

78] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

79] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

80] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

81] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

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

83] Saying is one thing, and doing another

84] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

85] Man proposes, God disposes

86] Great barkers are no biters

87] Trusting often makes fidelity

88] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

89] He who touches pitch will be defiled

90] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

91] There is no redemption from hell

92] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

93] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

94] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

95] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

96] Needs must when the devil drives

97] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

98] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

99] The exception proves the rule

100] Nature does nothing in vain