Famous Proverbs

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

2] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

3] Ill comes often on the back worse

4] Patience is the remedy of the world

5] Threatened folk live long

6] What is word but wind?

7] Spend and be free, but make no waste

8] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

9] Prospect is often better than possession

10] He who considers too much will perform little.

11] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

12] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

13] Silence gives (or means) consent

14] Every may be has a may not be

15] The road to hell is paved with good action

16] Silence is a woman’s best garment

17] Diligence is the mother of good luck

18] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

19] Sow thin and mow thin

20] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

21] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

22] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

23] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

24] Curiosity killed the cat.

25] God’s help is better than the early rising

26] The young will sow their wild oats

27] Never hit a man when he’s down

28] Marriage makes or mars a man

29] Bare walls make giddy housewives

30] Life is not all beer and skittles

31] You must grin and bear it

32] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

33] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

34] Better are small fish than an empty dish

35] He that does most at once, does least

36] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

37] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

38] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

39] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

40] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

41] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

42] The labour we delight in physics pain

43] Beware of him who makes thee presents

44] Love laughs at locksmiths

45] He that praises himself, spatters himself

46] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

47] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

48] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

49] The faulty stands on his guard

50] The fairest flowers soonest fade

51] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

52] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

53] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

54] Be careful to whom you give

55] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

56] A man without a wife is but half a man

57] Wrong never comes right

58] Variety is the spice of life

59] Least said, soonest mended

60] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

61] Abundance, like want, ruins many

62] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

63] One barber shaves another gratis

64] Even Homer sometimes nods

65] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

66] There is no blindness like ignorance

67] A man may learn wit every day.

68] Necessity knows no law

69] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

70] Marriage is a lottery

71] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

72] No tie can oblige the perfidious

73] Danger makes men devout

74] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

75] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

76] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

77] There’s a time and place for everything

78] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

79] A living dog is better than a dead lion

80] Ill comes often on the back worse

81] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

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

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

84] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

85] What has been, may be

86] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

87] Success makes a fool seem wise.

88] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

89] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

90] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

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

92] No like is the same.

93] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

94] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

95] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

96] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

97] The more you get, the more you want

98] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

99] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

100] A gift in hand is better than two promises.