Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

2] Manners make the man

3] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

4] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

5] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

6] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

7] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

8] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

9] Cast not the first stone.

10] Desires are nourished by delays

11] The pot calls the kettle black

12] What’s done cannot be undone

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

14] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

15] He that knows little often repeats it

16] Better an apple given than eaten

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

18] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

19] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

20] All things are difficult before they are easy

21] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

22] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

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

24] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

25] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

26] One today is worth two tomorrows

27] There is no garden without its weeds

28] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

29] Dogs bark as they are bred.

30] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

31] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

32] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

33] Death does not recognize strength

34] When the cat is away, the mice will play

35] One is never too old to learn

36] His own ingenuity pricks him.

37] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

38] Extremity of right is wrong

39] You may know by a handful the whole sack

40] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

41] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

42] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

43] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

44] What has been, may be

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

46] Revenge is sweet

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

48] Gluttony kills more than the sword

49] The absent party is always to blame.

50] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

51] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

52] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

53] Think of ease, but work on.

54] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

55] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

56] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

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

58] He who hesitates is lost

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

60] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

61] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

62] Where there is no trust there is no love

63] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

64] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

65] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

66] Even a worm will turn

67] Nature is conquered by obeying her

68] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

69] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

70] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

71] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

72] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

73] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

74] Necessity knows no law

75] Bare walls make giddy housewives

76] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

77] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

78] Fair without, false within

79] Better belly burst than good meat lost

80] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

81] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

82] Nature abhors a vacuum

83] Time flees without a delay

84] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

85] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

86] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

87] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

88] Love and business teach eloquence

89] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

90] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

91] Judge not of men and things at first sight

92] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

93] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

94] Heaven helps those who help themselves

95] He laughs best who laughs last

96] Weapons breed peace

97] Virtue joints man to god

98] Other times, other manners

99] Nature abhors a vacuum

100] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.