Famous Proverbs

1] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

2] Never refuse a good offer

3] He who considers too much will perform little.

4] No pain, no cure

5] Good to begin well, better to end well.

6] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

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

8] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

9] Ignorance is the peace of life

10] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

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

12] There is nothing like being on the safe side

13] Make the best of a bad bargain

14] The envious man shall never want woe

15] A good name is a rich heritage

16] There is no accounting for tastes

17] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

18] Where there is peace, there is blessing

19] He who owes is in all the wrong

20] A miss is as good as a mile

21] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

22] Virtue is the only true nobility

23] A good name is better than a golden girdle

24] Gold will not buy everything

25] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

26] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

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

28] Homo is a common name to all men.

29] Tell the truth and shame the devil

30] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

31] Good hand, good hire

32] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

33] Now is now, and then was then

34] It is easy to be wise after the event

35] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

36] Don’t ride the high horse

37] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

38] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

39] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

40] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

41] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

42] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

43] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

44] All heiresses are beautiful.

45] Two blacks do not make a white

46] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

47] Little things are pretty

48] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

49] Fools grow without watering.

50] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

51] A man may learn wit every day.

52] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

53] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

54] Cheats never prosper

55] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

56] Good clothes open all doors

57] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

58] Poverty is not a crime

59] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

60] Pursuits become habits

61] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

62] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

63] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

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

65] Young colts will canter.

66] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

67] Blood is thicker than water

68] Dying is as natural as living

69] All for one, and one for all.

70] Failure teaches success

71] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

72] No man is indispensable

73] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

74] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

75] Wink at small faults

76] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

77] Make the best of a bad bargain

78] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

79] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

80] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

81] Money is the sinew of affairs

82] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

83] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

84] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

85] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

86] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

87] The course of true love never did run smooth

88] Flesh is frail

89] A fault confessed is half redressed

90] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

91] Garbage in, garbage out

92] Hungry bellies have no ears

93] Ill news comes apace.

94] Many drops make a shower

95] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

96] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

97] Do not kick against the pricks

98] The garment worn determines how one is served

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

100] He that desires but little has no deed of much