Famous Proverbs

1] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

2] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

3] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

4] Necessity is the mother of invention

5] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

6] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

7] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

8] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

9] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

10] Love me, love the crows on my roof

11] He stands not surely that never slips

12] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

13] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

14] Money is the only monarch

15] Do unto others as they should do unto you

16] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

17] Too far east is west

18] They brag most who can do least

19] Blue are the far away hills

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

21] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

22] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

23] Precept begins, examples accomplish

24] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

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

26] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

27] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

28] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

29] You cannot make bricks without straw

30] Rich folk have many friends

31] Wedlock is padlock

32] All is fair in love and war

33] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

34] Do not kick against the pricks

35] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

36] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

37] Master easy, servant slack

38] A little body often harbours a great soul

39] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

40] Lose a leg rather than a life

41] He that has no money needs no purse

42] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

43] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

44] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

45] It is too late to call back yesterday

46] Patient men with the day.

47] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

48] First impressions are most lasting

49] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

50] A single rose does not mean spring

51] One potter envies another

52] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

53] Custom makes all things easy

54] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

55] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

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

57] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

58] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

59] What’s in a name?

60] It is no use crying over spilt milk

61] Nothing is given so freely as advice

62] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

63] Men make houses, women make homes

64] Erring is not heating

65] Beauty is but skin-deep

66] No convenience without its inconvenience

67] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

68] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

69] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

70] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

71] There is nothing lost by civility

72] A man’s wealth is his enemy

73] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

74] Use makes mastery

75] He that repairs not a part, builds all

76] There is nothing permanent except change

77] The envious man shall never want woe

78] He who never was sick dies the first fit

79] He who leaps high must take a long run

80] Praises fill not the belly

81] The devil knows many things because he is old

82] Hitch your wagon to a star

83] The more cost, the more honour

84] Fools rejoice at promises

85] No cross, no crown

86] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

87] One man’s means another man’s poison

88] Black will take no other hue

89] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

90] No man limps because another is hurt

91] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

92] He that ventures not fails not.

93] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

94] New things are fair

95] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

96] Fools rejoice at promises

97] Trust is the mother of deceit

98] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

99] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

100] A fair face may hide a foul heart.