English Proverbs

ability absence acceptance achievement action adjustment advantage adversity advice affection age agreement alcohol alternative anger answer anxiety appearance appreciation attention attractive bad balance beauty beggar beginning behaviour believe benefits boast bold brag brain bravery breaking burden business busy capability carefully catch caution certainty chance change character cheat children chlidren choice choose clean close comfortable commitment commonsense company compare comparison competition complaint compromise conceal confidence conscience consequences contentment control convenience cooperation correction corruption counsel couple courage courtesy coward crime criticize crook cry custom danger dead death debt deceive decision deed defect defense degree delay deserve destiny destruction detail devil difference differences difficult difficulty discart discipline disclosure discovery discretion discussion distance diversity divided doing done doubt downfall dowry dream drunk early earning easiness easy eating economic education education money effect effort emotion encouragement end ending endure enemy England enough envy equality essential evaluation evidence evil exaggeration example exception exchange exciting excitment excuse exercise expectation expences experience exploitation extremes face failure fair faith fame familiarity family fast fate fault favour fear feeling fight find finish first fit flaw fool foolish forbearance forbidden forgiveness forgotten fortune free freedom friendship funeral fury fuss futile vain future gain genuine get gift give God good gossip gratefulness greed grief group guideness guilt habit happen happening happiness harm harvest haste hate hatred health hear help heredity hero hierarchy hit hobby home honesty hope household hunger hurt hypocrisy idleness ignorance ignoring illegal imagination imitation immorality imperfection importance important impossible impression improve improvement inaccurate inadequacy incentive income incompatibility indication indifference infection ingratitude inheritage injure instance integrity intelligence intention interests interfere involve irrelevant irreplaceable issues join joke joy judge justice kindness knowledge known lasting late laughter law lazyness leader learning leave legal less lie lies life limits listen little live logic losing loss lost love luck lust madness making man marriage married matching means measure meddle memory mind mischief misfortune misleading mistake mock moderation money more morning motivation murder must naivety naked nationality nature necessity new news nice nonsence nothing obey obtain obvious old omen opinion opportunity optimism option order origin outcome outright outstanding pain panic parents parleys partial past patience payment peace perfection performance persistence person persuasion picture pity planning please pleasure plenty politeness poor possible postpone poverty povetry power practice praise precaution predict preference premature pretence pretense prevention prey price pride priorities prison privacy problem procrastination profit progress promise promises prosperity prove publicity punctuality punishment purpose quality question quickly quietness quit rain rate reaction reality reason recognition regret reign relation relationship remain repentance replace reputation resemblance reserve resist respect responsibility result retain retaliation retreat return revenge reward rich risk rouse rule rumour sadness safe safety satisfaction save saving school scorn sea second secret secure see self selfish sensibility shallowness silence silliness similarity simplicity sin situation skill slander smart solution speak speech spend spent spoil spouse start status stop storing strength stress success sucess sufficient suit superstition supperstition support survive suspicion talking target task taste teach temptation terms thankful theft thief think thinking thought threat thrive tidiness time today trade trap treat trouble truth understanding united unnecessary unsuited use useless vain value vanity view violence virtue visit wait want warning waste way weak weakness wealth weather wedding welcome willing win winner wisdom wisdow wish woman words work world worrying worsening worth writing wrong wrongdoing yield young ΓΑΜΟΣ ΔΙΑΣΚΕΔΑΣΗ