Famous Proverbs

1] More haste, less speed

2] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

3] He who sows, trusts in God

4] Confess and be hanged

5] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

6] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

7] One lie makes many

8] All things require skills but an appetite

9] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

10] The end crowns the work.

11] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

12] The mean is the best

13] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

14] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

15] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

16] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

17] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

18] No man limps because another is hurt

19] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

20] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

21] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

22] They that dance must pay the fiddler

23] A still tongue makes a wise head

24] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

25] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

26] The devil is not as black as he is painted

27] Hope keeps man alive

28] The good die young.

29] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

30] All things are easy, that are done willingly

31] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

32] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

33] A friend is easier lost than found

34] It never rains it pours

35] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

36] One fool praises another

37] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

38] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

39] Least said, soonest mended

40] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

41] It will be the same a hundred years hence

42] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

43] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

44] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

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

46] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

47] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

48] Will is no skill

49] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

50] High places have their precipices

51] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

52] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

53] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

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

55] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

56] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

57] Too much cunning undoes

58] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

59] A bad workman always blames his tools

60] Laughter makes good blood

61] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

62] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

63] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

64] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

65] Better ask the way than go astray

66] Pitchers have ears

67] It is a shame to be shameless

68] You cannot serve God and Mammon

69] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

70] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

71] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

72] Much science, much sorrow

73] A man of courage never wants weapons

74] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

75] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

76] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

77] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

78] Debt is an evil conscience

79] Dog does not eat dog

80] Children and chickens must be always picking

81] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

82] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

83] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

84] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

85] An empty sack cannot stand upright

86] Every dog has his (its) day

87] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

88] Pitchers have ears

89] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

90] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

91] Fair exchange is no robbery

92] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

93] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

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

95] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

96] Grasp all, lose all

97] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

98] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

99] Wake not a sleeping lion

100] There is nothing new under the sun