Famous Proverbs

1] Out of sight, out of mind

2] Every advantage has its disadvantage

3] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

4] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

5] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

6] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

7] Death alone can kill hope

8] A good conscience is a soft pillow

9] Truth is stranger than fiction

10] Idle folks lack no excuses

11] Double charge will rive a cannon

12] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

13] It is well to live that one may learn

14] Hitch your wagon to a star

15] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

16] Words cut more than swords

17] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

18] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

19] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

20] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

21] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

22] All that glitters is not gold

23] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

24] A bribe will enter without knocking

25] One is never too old to learn

26] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

27] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

28] Silence never makes mistakes

29] Love will find a way

30] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

31] Death is the grand leveler

32] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

33] No like is the same.

34] More haste, less speed

35] Circumstances alter cases

36] Weapons breed peace

37] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

38] He that eats well should do his duty well

39] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

40] Death does not recognize strength

41] The end crowns the work.

42] Love laughs at locksmiths

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

44] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

45] Barking dogs seldom bite

46] Her that is down need fear no fall

47] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

48] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

49] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

50] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

51] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

52] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

53] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

54] Poor men’s words have little weight

55] An oak is not felled at one stroke

56] One must howl with the wolves

57] Covetousness brings nothing home

58] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

59] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

60] Every dog has his day

61] What is a workman without his tools?

62] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

63] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

64] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

65] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

66] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

67] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

68] Virtue has all things in itself

69] The best things in life are free

70] He that has plenty of goods will have more

71] Spare the rod and spoil the child

72] The good intention excuses the bad action

73] A good garden may have some ill weeds

74] Innocence is no protection

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

76] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

77] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

78] It is no use crying over spilt milk

79] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

80] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

81] A bad padlock invites a picklock

82] True gold is not transformed by fire

83] Will is the cause of woe

84] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

85] Never too late to learn

86] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

87] Trusting often makes fidelity

88] What will not money do?

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

90] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

91] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

92] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

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

94] The best things carried to excess are wrong

95] Almost’ never killed a fly.

96] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

97] Don’t tell tales out of school

98] As long lives a merry man as a sad

99] Love is never without jealousy

100] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence