Famous Proverbs

1] A good name is a rich heritage

2] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

3] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

4] Numbers overcome the brave

5] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

6] No cross, no crown

7] The end justifies the means

8] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

9] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

10] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

11] Well begun is half done.

12] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

13] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

14] Alms never make poor

15] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

16] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

17] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

18] All’s fair in love and war

19] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

20] Children learn to creep ere they can go

21] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

22] Confess and be hanged

23] A good payer is master of another’s purse

24] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

25] The end makes all equal

26] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

27] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

28] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

29] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

30] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

31] Dying is as natural as living

32] He that has plenty of goods will have more

33] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

34] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

35] Marriages are made in heaven

36] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

37] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

38] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

39] The best of men are but men at best.

40] You cannot make a crab walk straight

41] A word spoken is past recalling

42] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

43] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

44] There is no smoke without fire

45] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

46] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

47] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

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

49] Fine words dress ill deeds

50] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

51] It is too late to look up after you have collided

52] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

53] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

54] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

55] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

56] Practice what you preach

57] There is nothing permanent except change

58] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

59] It is misery enough to have once been happy

60] Harp not for ever on the same string

61] The end crowns the work.

62] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

63] God helps those who help themselves

64] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

65] An angry man is not fit to pray

66] Hope is the poor man’s bread

67] He that is down need fear no fall

68] One potter envies another

69] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

70] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

71] Even Homer sometimes nods

72] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

73] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

74] A little is better than none

75] What will not money do?

76] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

77] All lay loads on a willing horse

78] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

79] A man in debt is caught in a net

80] Death does not recognize strength

81] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

82] Fool’s haste is no speed

83] Debt is an evil conscience

84] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

85] God sends cold after Clothes

86] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

87] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

88] Grief pent up will break the heart

89] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

90] There is no rose without a thorn

91] Where there is no trust there is no love

92] A good beginning is half the battle.

93] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

94] He thinks not well that thinks not again

95] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

96] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

97] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

98] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

99] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

100] The bread never falls but on its buttered side