Famous Proverbs

1] Give credit where credit is due

2] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

3] Dying men speak true

4] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

5] Who suffers much is silent

6] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

7] Make the best of a bad bargain

8] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

9] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

10] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

11] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

13] Of two evils choose the lesser

14] The devil lurks behind the cross

15] In the end, things will mend

16] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

17] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

18] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

19] Work won’t kill but worry will.

20] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

21] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

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

23] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

24] Keep some till further more come

25] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

26] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

27] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

28] Where there’s muck, there’s money

29] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

30] Half a loaf is better than do bread

31] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

32] So many countries, so many customs

33] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

34] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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

36] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

37] Abundance, like want, ruins many

38] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

39] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

40] Corn him well and he will work better

41] First catch your hare

42] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

43] It never rains it pours

44] No man is a hero to his valet

45] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

46] No man is indispensable

47] Those near the temple deride the gods

48] Little by little and bit by bit.

49] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

50] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

51] Hope is the poor man’s bread

52] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

53] Big words seldom go with good deeds

54] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

55] It is good to follow the old fox

56] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

57] Extremes meet

58] Without diligence, no prize

59] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

60] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

61] One sheep follows another

62] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

63] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

64] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

65] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

66] Expectation is better than realisation

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

68] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

69] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

70] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

71] Easier said than done

72] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

73] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

74] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

75] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

76] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

77] Wise men silent, fools talk

78] It will be the same a hundred years hence

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

80] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

81] Better eye sore than al blind

82] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

83] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

84] Put out your tubs when it is raining

85] Don’t cry stinking fish

86] The unexpected always happens.

87] Pleasing ware is half sold

88] Every oak has been an acorn

89] Our own opinion is never wrong

90] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

91] Hunger breaks stone walls

92] The race is got by running

93] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

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

95] All lay loads on a willing horse

96] The voice is the best music

97] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

98] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

99] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

100] Good clothes open all doors