Famous Proverbs

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

2] Give a loan and buy quarrel

3] It takes all sorts to make a world

4] Virtue carries a lean purse

5] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

6] Health and wealth create beauty

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

8] Love is blind

9] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

10] Small is beautiful

11] Work expands so as to fill the time available

12] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

13] A wicked man is his own hell

14] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

15] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

16] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

17] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

18] Hitch your wagon to a star

19] Everything new is fine

20] An honest good look covers many faults.

21] New meat begets a new appetite

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

23] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

24] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

25] God is always on the side of the big battalions

26] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

27] A prophet is without honour in his own country

28] A crowd is not company

29] Never too late to learn

30] Procrastination is the thief of time

31] All things require skills but an appetite

32] He that is born a fool is never cured

33] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

34] Go not to hell for company

35] Keep some till further more come

36] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

37] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

38] He who owes is in all the wrong

39] Strike while the iron is hot

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

41] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

42] Worse things happen at sea

43] Open confession is good for the soul

44] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

45] There is no time like the present

46] We soon believe what we desire

47] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

48] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

49] No man is a hero to his valet

50] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

51] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

52] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

53] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

54] They can do least two boast loudest

55] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

56] Lookers-on see most of the game

57] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

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

59] A bully is always a coward

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

61] The absent saint gets no candle

62] No man can serve two masters

63] Hunger is the teacher of many

64] He that knows little often repeats it

65] Example is better than precept

66] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

67] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

68] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

69] A little too late, is much too late

70] A rich man’s joke is always funny

71] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

72] When wine sinks, words swim

73] Names and natures do often agree

74] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

75] One lie makes many

76] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

77] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

78] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

79] The longest way round is the shortest way home

80] Necessity is a powerful weapon

81] Like will to like

82] A wise man hears one word and understands two

83] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

84] Don’t cry for the moon

85] Prevention is better than cure

86] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

87] Work won’t kill but worry will.

88] Self do, self have

89] No man limps because another is hurt

90] The early man ever borrows from the late man

91] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

92] As long lives a merry man as a sad

93] Use makes mastery

94] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

95] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

96] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

97] Care is no cure

98] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

99] Familiarity breeds contempt

100] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak