Famous Proverbs

1] Goodness is better than beauty

2] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

3] Half an egg is better than empty shell

4] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

5] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

6] It is not work that kills but worry

7] The world is full of fools

8] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

9] Ale will make a cat speak

10] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

11] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

12] He that is absent is soon forgotten

13] Long life has long misery

14] Even water has its ebb and flow

15] Too long burden makes weary bones

16] Petty laws breed great crimes

17] He that travels far knows much

18] When meat is in anger is out

19] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

20] Take things as they come

21] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

22] Better the foot slip than the tongue

23] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

24] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

25] The road to hell is paved with good action

26] 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.

27] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

28] No man limps because another is hurt

29] Home is home though it be never so homely

30] The biter is sometimes bit

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

32] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

33] Dirty linen should be washed at home

34] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

35] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

36] Great actions speak minds

37] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

38] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

39] What is the mother of industry

40] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

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

42] Light grows the burden which is well borne

43] A man can die but once

44] All things that great men do are well done

45] Enough is as good as a feast

46] Kindness lies in one side of the house

47] Water is the king of food

48] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

49] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

50] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

51] A little impatience will spoil great plans

52] One potter envies another

53] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

54] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

55] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

56] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

57] It is not work that kills but worry

58] Coming events cast their shadows before

59] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

60] It is more blessed to give than to receive

61] A good word stills great anger

62] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

63] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

64] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

65] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

66] Health and money go far

67] A good payer is master of another’s purse

68] Money isn’t everything

69] It is more pain to do nothing than something

70] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

71] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

72] Better belly burst than good meat lost

73] Too far east is west

74] Every advantage has its disadvantage

75] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

76] Everyone to his taste

77] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

78] Never hit a man when he’s down

79] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

80] The resolved mind has no cares

81] The great fish eat up the small

82] Of two evils choose the lesser

83] An old horse knows the route

84] Poverty is not a crime

85] Christmas comes but once a year

86] The age of miracles is past

87] Silence gives (or means) consent

88] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

89] One of these days is none of these days

90] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

91] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

92] Honest is the best policy

93] Look before you leap

94] Danger makes men devout

95] All’s well that ends well

96] He that has good money, gives few alms

97] Appetite comes with eating

98] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

99] A man’s wealth is his enemy

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