Famous Proverbs

1] Go not to hell for company

2] Words are but wind

3] One reason is as good as fifty

4] Words are but wind

5] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

6] Love knows hidden paths

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

8] Step by step the ladder is ascended

9] Blood will have blood

10] To err is human

11] An army marches on its stomach

12] Tempt not a desperate man

13] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

14] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

15] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

16] Love knows no limit

17] Everything new is fine

18] Man proposes, God disposes

19] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

20] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

21] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

22] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

23] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

24] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

25] Wedlock is padlock

26] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

27] No man is content with his lot

28] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

29] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

30] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

31] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

32] Pursuits become habits

33] Love knows no limit

34] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

35] Don’t take your harp to the party

36] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

37] Soon gotten, soon spent

38] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

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

40] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

41] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

42] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

43] A good wife makes a good husband

44] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

45] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

46] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

47] Ambition makes people diligent

48] Prove your friend ere you have need

49] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

50] The lion had need of the mouse

51] Pleasing ware is half sold

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

53] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

54] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

55] Better no doctor at all than three.

56] A traveller may lie with authority

57] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

58] First try and then trust

59] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

60] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

61] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

62] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

63] The mob has many heads but no brains

64] There is no time like the present

65] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

66] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

67] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

68] It is never too late to mend

69] Pride goes before a fall

70] He that cannot ask, cannot live

71] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

72] Even water has its ebb and flow

73] The labourer is worthy of his hire

74] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

75] Dumb dogs are dangerous

76] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

77] Love laughs at locksmiths

78] The borrower is servant to the lender

79] The poor suffer all the wrong

80] You cannot have it both ways

81] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

82] Fine words dress ill deeds

83] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

84] There is no accounting for tastes

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

86] Beauty opens locked doors

87] An angry man is not fit to pray

88] Cheap is dear in the long run.

89] Moderation in all things

90] Wrong has no warrant

91] Take away fuel, take away flame

92] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

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

94] Conscience does make cowards of us all

95] Health without money is half an ague

96] Every light has its shadow

97] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

98] A learned man has always riches in himself

99] Of three main roads, take the middle one

100] Slow but sure wins the race