Famous Proverbs

1] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

2] Pleasing ware is half sold

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

4] Every dog has his (its) day

5] The slowest barker is the surest biter

6] He who does no good, does evil enough

7] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

8] Good hand, good hire

9] He that brings good news, knocks hard

10] One of these days is none of these days

11] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

12] Once a knave, always a knave

13] In fair weather prepare for foul

14] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

15] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

16] The Pen is mightier than the sword

17] The mean is the best

18] Man cannot live by bread alone

19] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

20] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

21] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

22] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

23] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

24] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

25] Content is better than riches

26] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

27] The good intention excuses the bad action

28] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

29] Don’t put the cart before the horse

30] That which Nature paints never fades

31] A bully is always a coward

32] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

33] The end crowns the work.

34] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

35] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

36] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

37] If today will not, tomorrow may

38] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

39] He that talks much, errs much

40] A man may bear till his back breaks

41] God made the country ,and man made the town

42] After a storm comes a calm

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

44] Fortune favours fools

45] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

46] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

47] He that lives ill, fear follows him

48] Great hopes make great men

49] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

50] Learn not and know not

51] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

52] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

53] He that brings good news, knocks hard

54] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

55] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

56] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

57] A good name is a rich heritage

58] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

59] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

60] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

61] Hope is the poor man’s bread

62] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

63] Whatever man has done, man can do

64] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

65] He that has good money, gives few alms

66] A hungry man is angry man

67] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

68] Now is now, and then was then

69] An open door may tempt a saint

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

71] Business is business

72] Big words seldom go with good deeds

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

74] All roads lead to Rome

75] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

76] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

77] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

78] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

79] The tide must be taken when it comes

80] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

81] God’s lambs will play.

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

83] Go not to hell for company

84] The weakest goes to the wall

85] A straight stick is crooked in water

86] What is word but wind?

87] The garment worn determines how one is served

88] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

89] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

90] Change brings life

91] Like father, like son

92] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

93] Company in misery makes it light

94] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

95] Take things as they come

96] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

97] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

98] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

99] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

100] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step