Famous Proverbs

1] Enough is as good as a feast

2] The course of true love never did run smooth

3] A good wife makes a good husband

4] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

5] God provides for him that trusts

6] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

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

8] Children speak only words they have heard.

9] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

10] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

11] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

12] The more you have the more you want

13] By his deeds we know a man

14] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

15] He that speaks well, flights well

16] Diamond cuts diamond

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

18] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

19] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

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

21] A great city, a great solitude

22] New brooms sweep clean

23] Soft fire makes sweet malt

24] Wise men silent, fools talk

25] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

26] Nature hates all sudden changes

27] Good luck beats early rising

28] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

29] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

30] In fair weather prepare for foul

31] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

32] No news is good news

33] The early man ever borrows from the late man

34] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

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

36] No road is long with good company

37] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

38] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

39] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

40] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

41] Failure teaches success

42] Out of debt, out of danger

43] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

44] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

45] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

46] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

47] Second thoughts are best

48] He who wills the end, Wills the means

49] The more cost, the more honour

50] He that travels far knows much

51] Love delights in praise

52] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

53] Covetousness breaks the sack

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

55] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

56] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

57] Rich folk have many friends

58] A fault once denied is twice committed

59] Give a loan and buy quarrel

60] Stolen sweets are sweeter

61] Covetousness breaks the sack

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

63] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

64] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

65] Desires are nourished by delays

66] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

67] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

68] Everyone to his taste

69] The tongue talks at the heads cost

70] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

71] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

72] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

73] Extremity of right is wrong

74] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

75] Praises fill not the belly

76] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

77] We shall lie all alike in our graves

78] What’s in a name?

79] Idleness is the root of all evil

80] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

81] Waste not, want not

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

83] Wrong has no warrant

84] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

85] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

86] Where there’s a will there’s a way

87] Man cannot live by bread alone

88] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

89] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

90] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

91] The tongue stings

92] Actions speak louder than words

93] Revenge is sweet

94] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

95] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

96] Divine grace was never slow

97] Wake not a sleeping lion

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

99] Money refused loses its brightness

100] The best fish swim near the bottom