Famous Proverbs

1] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

2] Cut your coat according to your cloth

3] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

4] Adventures are to be adventurous

5] There is no blindness like ignorance

6] He would command must serve

7] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

8] Laugh and grow fat

9] Charity begins at home.

10] No man is born wise or learned

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

12] The good die young.

13] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

14] Every flow must have its ebb

15] He who has seen little marvels much

16] Beauty draws more than oxen

17] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

18] A closed mouth catches no files

19] Busiest men find the most time

20] He that seeks trouble never misses

21] The beaten road is the safest

22] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

23] God is always on the side of the big battalions

24] Truth is stranger than fiction

25] Valour delights in the test

26] Rip not up old sores

27] Divide and rule

28] Names and natures do often agree

29] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

30] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

31] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

32] Better eye sore than al blind

33] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

34] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

35] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

36] Hunger breaks stone walls

37] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

38] The good die young.

39] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

40] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

41] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

42] No good building without a good foundation.

43] None so busy as those who do nothing.

44] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

45] The rich knows not who is his friend

46] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

47] Dreams are lies

48] No man fears what he has seen grow

49] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

50] In fair weather prepare for foul

51] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

52] Ambition loses many a man

53] The ass that brays most eats

54] The more you have the more you want

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

56] He that is absent is soon forgotten

57] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

58] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

59] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

60] Sow thin and mow thin

61] Old habits die hard

62] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

63] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

64] Sorrow will pay no debt

65] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

66] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

67] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

68] You cannot have it both ways

69] Extremity of right is wrong

70] There is nothing like being on the safe side

71] Weak things united become strong

72] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

73] High places have their precipices

74] God’s lambs will play.

75] Little by little and bit by bit.

76] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

77] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

78] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

79] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

80] The fairest silk is soonest stained

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

82] Rich folk have many friends

83] Precepts may lead but examples draw

84] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

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

86] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

87] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

88] Many hands make light work

89] One reason is as good as fifty

90] Every dog is valiant at his won door

91] All is vanity.

92] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

93] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

94] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

95] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

96] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

97] It is too late to look up after you have collided

98] It is well to live that one may learn

99] You can’t win them all

100] He who sows, trusts in God