Famous Proverbs

1] Whatever man has done, man can do

2] Fish and guests smell in three days

3] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

4] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

5] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

6] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

7] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

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

9] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

10] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

11] Cowards die many times before their deaths

12] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

13] Patient men with the day.

14] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

15] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

16] One man’s means another man’s poison

17] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

18] Health is great riches

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

20] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

21] A traveller may lie with authority

22] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

23] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

24] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

25] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

26] A man of courage never wants weapons

27] Manners make the man

28] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

29] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

30] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

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

32] Cast not the first stone.

33] He who teaches learns

34] He has not lost all who has one cast left

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

36] Example is better than precept

37] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

38] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

39] A constant guest is never welcome

40] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

41] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

42] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

43] A rich man can do nothing wrong

44] Health and money go far

45] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

46] Friendship should not be all on one

47] Praises fill not the belly

48] Many hands make light work

49] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

50] Learning is the eye of the mind

51] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

52] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

53] One can’t help many, but many can help one

54] First things first

55] He that cannot ask, cannot live

56] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

57] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

58] Call a spade a spade

59] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

60] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

61] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

62] He that has an ill name is half hanged

63] He would command must serve

64] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

65] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

66] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

67] There is nothing lost by civility

68] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

69] No day so clear but has dark clouds

70] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

71] A bad excuse is better than none at all

72] Out of sight, out of mind

73] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

74] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

75] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

76] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

77] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

78] Love conquers all

79] Old vessels must leak

80] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

81] Idle folks have the least leisure

82] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

83] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

84] Dead men don’t bite

85] All is fair in love and war

86] Comparisons are odious

87] A crowd is not company

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

89] Adventures are to be adventurous

90] He that lends, gives

91] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

92] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

93] Suffering does not manifest itself

94] God sends cold after Clothes

95] Never grieve for what you cannot help

96] It is never too late to mend

97] The longest day must have an end

98] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

99] Dirty linen should be washed at home

100] There is many a true word spoken in jest