Famous Proverbs

1] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

2] All things require skills but an appetite

3] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

4] Variety is charming

5] A good payer is master of another’s purse

6] Many hands make light work

7] The faulty stands on his guard

8] Good fences make good neighbours

9] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

10] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

11] A monk can’t shave his own head

12] All things for not all persons

13] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

14] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

15] No good building without a good foundation.

16] Needs must when the devil drives

17] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

18] 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

19] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

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

21] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

22] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

23] The highest tree has the greatest fall

24] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

25] Every man must carry his own cross

26] It is easier to pull down than to build

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

28] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

29] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

30] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

31] It is never too late to mend

32] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

33] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

34] Laughter makes good blood

35] The pen is the tongue of the hand

36] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

37] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

38] A single rose does not mean spring

39] A good example is the best sermon

40] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

41] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

42] Money talks

43] Variety is the spice of life

44] Business is business

45] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

46] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

47] Love knows no limit

48] Beauty is only skin deep

49] He that has no shame has no conscience

50] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

51] The best things come in small packages

52] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

53] Never buy a pig in a poke

54] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

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

56] Give credit where credit is due

57] What will not money do?

58] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

59] There is nothing new under the sun

60] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

61] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

62] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

63] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

64] Content is better than riches

65] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

66] Old foxes want no tutors

67] Quickly come, quickly go

68] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

69] If you have known one, you have known them all

70] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

71] True doctrines require no miracles

72] Fish and guests smell in three days

73] Many dishes make many diseases

74] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

75] What costs little is little esteemed

76] He that has an ill name is half hanged

77] A loveless life is a living death

78] Poverty is no sin

79] He that praises himself, spatters himself

80] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

81] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

82] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

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

84] A learned man has always riches in himself

85] Trust is the mother of deceit

86] The fox may grow grey, but never good

87] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

88] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

89] A bad padlock invites a picklock

90] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

91] A wicked man is his own hell

92] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

93] There is nothing permanent except change

94] Better children weep than old men

95] Much learning makes men mad

96] A hedge between keeps friendship green

97] Bold men have generous hearts

98] Wishes can never fill a sack

99] Fire is a good servant a bad master

100] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers