Famous Proverbs

1] An old fox is not easily snared

2] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

3] The tongue stings

4] Love can find a way

5] Needs must when the devil drives

6] None so busy as those who do nothing.

7] Discretion is the better part of valour

8] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

9] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

10] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

11] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

12] A healthy man is a successful man

13] Words bind men

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

15] We live laws, not by examples

16] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

17] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

18] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

19] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

20] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

21] There is none misfortune cannot reach

22] Will is no skill

23] Nature abhors a vacuum

24] Home is where the heart is

25] The early man ever borrows from the late man

26] The king can do no wrong

27] Nature hates all sudden changes

28] Garbage in, garbage out

29] A man’s wealth is his enemy

30] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

31] Far from eye, far from heart

32] Beggars must not be choosers

33] Our own opinion is never wrong

34] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

35] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

36] Take things as you find them

37] The company makes the feast

38] The greatest step is that out of doors

39] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

40] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

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

42] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

43] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

44] The dog is a lion in his own house

45] A good husband makes a good wife

46] They say so’ is half a lie

47] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

48] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

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

50] Little things are great to little men

51] None can guess the jewel by the casket

52] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

53] The early bird catches the worm

54] There is nothing lost by civility

55] One thief will not rob another

56] What is worse than ill luck?

57] The leopard cannot change its spots

58] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

59] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

60] He is wise who looks ahead

61] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

62] Valour delights in the test

63] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

64] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

65] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

66] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

67] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

68] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

69] Great barkers are no biters

70] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

71] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

72] Fools live poor to die rich

73] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

75] A bully never grows up.

76] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

77] Better beg than steal.

78] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

79] In my own house, I am king

80] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

81] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

82] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

83] Spread the table, and contention will cease

84] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

85] Children should be seen and not heard

86] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

87] Dreams go by contraries

88] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

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

90] Grin and bear it

91] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

92] No feast lasts forever.

93] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

94] Spend and be free, but make no waste

95] Let not your tongue run at rover

96] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

97] Virtue is its own reward

98] The deed comes back upon the doer.

99] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

100] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise