Famous Proverbs

1] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

2] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

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

4] He that praises himself, spatters himself

5] Kindness lies in one side of the house

6] Clothes do not make the man

7] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

8] A wise man hears one word and understands two

9] All things require skills but an appetite

10] Give and take is fair play

11] Give a loan and buy quarrel

12] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

13] Little wealth, little care

14] Brevity is the soul of wit

15] It is the first step that is troublesome

16] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

17] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

18] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

19] Love will go through stone walls

20] Actions speak louder than words

21] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

22] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

23] Man punishes the action but God the intention

24] In the end, things will mend

25] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

26] Hard words break no bones

27] All’s fish that comes to the net

28] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

29] It’s a long lane that has no turning

30] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

31] Christmas comes but once a year

32] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

33] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

34] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

35] Better no doctor at all than three.

36] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

37] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

38] Wishes can never fill a sack

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

40] Fair face, foul heart

41] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

42] Let not your tongue run at rover

43] Experience must be bought

44] Pleasant hours fly past

45] Either mend or end

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

47] Better to be safe than sorry.

48] He who hesitates is lost

49] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

50] He is rich that has few wants

51] A good word stills great anger

52] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

53] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

54] The best things come in small packages

55] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

56] Honest is the best policy

57] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

58] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

59] An old dog barks not in vain

60] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

61] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

62] Ill comes often on the back worse

63] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

64] Extremes meet

65] Of two evils choose the lesser

66] Necessity is a powerful weapon

67] Books and friends should be few but good

68] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

69] Dying men speak true

70] It is the unexpected that always happens

71] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

72] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

73] A still tongue makes a wise head

74] Silence is also speech

75] Money is the sinews of war

76] Silence is a woman’s best garment

77] Blue are the far away hills

78] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

79] There is death in the pot.

80] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

81] When the word is out it belongs to another

82] You cannot unscramble eggs

83] What must be must be

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

85] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

86] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

87] Jack is as good as his master

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

89] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

90] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

91] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

92] He that has a wife, has strife

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

94] He who wills the end, Wills the means

95] Necessity breaks iron

96] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

97] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

98] Too much cunning undoes

99] Strength grows stronger by being tried

100] Waste is not grandeur