Famous Proverbs

1] Wrong never comes right

2] Patience is a virtue

3] Grief pent up will break the heart

4] Misery loves company.

5] Do as I say, not as I do

6] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

7] God made the country ,and man made the town

8] Love knows no limit

9] Every man has his faults

10] Necessity is mother of invention

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

12] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

13] The child is father of the man

14] The more you get, the more you want

15] There is many a true word spoken in jest

16] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

17] The coward threatens only when he is safe

18] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

19] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

20] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

21] Comparisons are odious

22] A good wife is a good prize

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

24] A mouse may help a lion

25] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

26] Desire beautifies what is ugly

27] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

28] A healthy man is a successful man

29] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

30] Care brings grey hair.

31] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

32] Well done is better than well said

33] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

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

35] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

36] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

37] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

38] Good is good but better carries it

39] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

40] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

41] In my own house, I am king

42] He that talks much, errs much

43] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

44] No man is indispensable

45] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

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

47] Birds once snared fear all bushes

48] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

49] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

50] Woes unite foes

51] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

52] A good wife is a good prize

53] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

54] There is no blindness like ignorance

55] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

56] Borrowed garments never fit well

57] Great talkers are never great doers

58] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

59] Union is strength.

60] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

61] Every man praises his own wares

62] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

63] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

64] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

65] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

66] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

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

68] The highest tree has the greatest fall

69] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

70] A loveless life is a living death

71] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

72] All is vanity.

73] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

74] Put out your tubs when it is raining

75] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

76] He who leaps high must take a long run

77] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

78] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

79] A man may bear till his back breaks

80] A good example is the best sermon

81] Pitchers have ears

82] The race is got by running

83] Every cloud has a silver lining

84] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

85] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

86] God is a sure paymaster

87] True doctrines require no miracles

88] The fairest silk is soonest stained

89] Cast not the first stone.

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

91] Weeds need no sowing

92] Money isn’t everything

93] An angry man is not fit to pray

94] A crowd is not company

95] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

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

97] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

98] Eat to live and not live to eat.

99] As you bake, so shall you eat.

100] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.