Famous Proverbs

1] Ill comes often on the back worse

2] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

3] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

4] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

5] Let us do evil that good may come

6] Better a bare foot than none

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

8] A word to the wise is enough

9] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

10] Wise men propose, and fools determine

11] Weapons breed peace

12] A wise man hears one word and understands two

13] Wisdom is better than strength

14] Too much cunning undoes

15] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

16] Kingdoms divided soon fall

17] The love of money is the root of all evil

18] Where there is peace, God is

19] Precept begins, examples accomplish

20] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

21] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

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

23] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

24] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

25] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

26] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

27] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

28] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

29] Everything is good in its season

30] There is nothing like being on the safe side

31] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

32] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

33] Diamond cuts diamond

34] We live by laws, not by examples

35] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

36] Prove your friend ere you have need

37] Old habits die hard

38] For a web begun, God sends the thread

39] Dirty water does not wash clean.

40] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

41] Nothing is given so freely as advice

42] Opportunity makes the thief

43] Pardon makes offenders

44] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

45] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

46] Misery loves company.

47] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

48] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

49] You can’t tell a book by its cover

50] Judge not the tree by its bark

51] Good fences make good neighbours

52] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

53] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

54] You cannot serve God and Mammon

55] Well begun is half done.

56] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

57] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

58] A prophet is without honour in his own country

59] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

60] Love conquers all

61] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

62] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

63] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

64] A good dog deserves a good bone

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

66] One good turn deserves another

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

68] A living dog is better than a dead lion

69] Best is cheapest

70] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

71] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

72] All things are difficult before they are easy

73] The tailor makes the man

74] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

75] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

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

77] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

78] Haste makes waste

79] God makes the back for the burden

80] Sorrow will pay no debt

81] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

82] Rip not up old sores

83] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

84] A friend is easier lost than found

85] Old foxes want no tutors

86] Enough is as good as a feast

87] Beauty draws more than oxen

88] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

89] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

90] The devil looks after his own

91] Change of pasture makes fat calves

92] Water is the king of food

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

94] Do not limp before the lame

95] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

96] The more laws, the more offenders

97] The end makes all equal

98] He who owes is in all the wrong

99] A man with no hands is given a ring.

100] There is no place like home