Famous Proverbs

1] The road to hell is paved with good action

2] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

3] Little things are great to little men

4] Fools rejoice at promises

5] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

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

7] The best of friends must part

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

9] All’s well that ends well

10] The hand that gives, gathers

11] Jack is as good as his master

12] When angry, count a hundred

13] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

14] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

15] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

16] Custom makes all things easy

17] Ready money is ready medicine

18] The fox may grow grey, but never good

19] Debt is an evil conscience

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

21] Double charge will rive a cannon

22] Goodness is better than beauty

23] Those near the temple deride the gods

24] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

25] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

26] In the end, things will mend

27] Who suffers much is silent

28] An ill tongue may do much

29] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

30] No pain, no cure

31] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

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

33] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

34] Love is lawless.

35] All’s fish that comes to the net

36] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

37] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

38] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

39] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

40] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

41] Friends are thieves of time

42] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

43] Desert and reward seldom keep company

44] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

45] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

46] A knave and a fool never take thought

47] Put out your tubs when it is raining

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

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

50] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

51] That which Nature paints never fades

52] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

53] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

54] A jack of all traders is master of none

55] What’s in a name?

56] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

57] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

58] A stitch in time saves nine

59] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

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

61] Change brings life

62] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

63] What’s in a name?

64] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

65] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

66] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

67] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

68] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

69] Innocence is no protection

70] There is many a true word spoken in jest

71] Kingdoms divided soon fall

72] Love is sweet torment

73] Familiarity breeds contempt

74] Virtue has all things in itself

75] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

76] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

77] You never know what you can do till you try

78] He may find fault that cannot mend

79] Judge not, that ye be not judged

80] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

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

82] One potter envies another

83] New brooms sweep clean

84] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

85] Nearest the heart comes out first

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

87] Soon hot, soon cold

88] Blood will have blood

89] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

90] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

91] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

92] The hole calls the thief

93] Soft fire makes sweet malt

94] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

95] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

96] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

97] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

98] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

99] Patience is a plaster for all sores

100] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.