Famous Proverbs

1] Ill gotten, ill spent

2] Money isn’t everything

3] A crowd is not company

4] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

5] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

6] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

7] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

8] Full of courtesy, full of craft

9] A gift much expected is paid, not given

10] Man proposes, God disposes

11] The value of money is having it.

12] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

13] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

14] Prevention is better than cure

15] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

16] First come, first served

17] Everyone to his taste

18] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

19] Let the buyer beware

20] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

21] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

22] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

23] You cannot have it both ways

24] You cannot serve God and Mammon

25] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

26] Poverty is not a crime

27] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

28] No tie can oblige the perfidious

29] Variety is the spice of life

30] Health is not value till sickness comes

31] Manners make the man

32] He that can stay. Obtains

33] Big fish eat little fish

34] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

35] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

36] No remedy but patience

37] An army marches on its stomach

38] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

39] Silence gives (or means) consent

40] Adam’s ale is the best brew

41] Love will find a way

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

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

44] God arms the harmless

45] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

46] An obedient wife commands her husband

47] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

48] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

49] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

50] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

51] Revenge never repairs an injury

52] Friends are thieves of time

53] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

54] He who comes late must eat what is left

55] Cowards die many times before their deaths

56] Don’t kick against the pricks

57] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

58] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

59] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

60] Every man has his faults

61] Where there is whispering there is lying

62] Young colts will canter.

63] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

64] He who leaps high must take a long run

65] A little impatience will spoil great plans

66] The last suitor wins the maid

67] No choice amongst stinking fish

68] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

69] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

70] Children and fools cannot lie.

71] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

72] Necessity is a powerful weapon

73] Homer sometimes nods

74] One man sows and another reaps

75] It is no use crying over spilt milk

76] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

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

78] A single rose does not mean spring

79] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

80] Desert and reward seldom keep company

81] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

82] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

83] Better an open enemy than a false friend

84] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

85] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

86] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

87] A joke’s a very serious thing

88] Pleasant hours fly past

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

90] The love of money is the root of all evil

91] A good word stills great anger

92] Seeing is believing

93] Lovers are madmen

94] Change of pasture makes fat calves

95] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

96] Through hardship to the stars

97] Change brings life

98] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

99] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

100] One must be a servant before one can be a master