Famous Proverbs

1] He who never was sick dies the first fit

2] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

3] There is nothing that costs less than civility

4] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

5] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

6] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

7] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

8] You cannot have your cake and eat it

9] He that knows little often repeats it

10] Love your friend with his fault

11] Fear of death is worse than death itself

12] He gives twice who gives quickly

13] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

14] You cannot unscramble eggs

15] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

16] Common fame is seldom to blame

17] A rolling stone gathers no moss

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

19] In my own house, I am king

20] The fairest flowers soonest fade

21] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

22] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

23] The child is father of the man

24] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

25] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

26] One cannot love and be wise

27] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

28] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

29] Past cure, past care

30] Boys will be boys

31] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

32] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

33] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

34] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

35] The garment worn determines how one is served

36] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

37] A word is enough to the wise

38] A strong town is not won in an hour

39] Men make houses, women make homes

40] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

41] You never know your luck

42] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

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

44] Gold is tried in the fire

45] Ill comes often on the back worse

46] History repeats itself

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

48] Words fly, writings remain

49] Union is strength.

50] Water is the king of food

51] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

52] Too long burden makes weary bones

53] Better be safe than sorry

54] The road to hell is paved with good action

55] The bait hides the hook

56] Empty vessels make the most sound

57] III luck is good for something

58] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

59] Better to wear out than rust out

60] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

61] One lie makes many

62] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

63] Don’t meet trouble half-way

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

65] He is an ill husband who is not missed

66] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

67] Beauty is but skin-deep

68] The Pen is mightier than the sword

69] Of a new prince, new bondage

70] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

71] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

72] Misfortunes never come singly

73] Debt is an evil conscience

74] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

75] What the king wills, that the law wills

76] Forgive and forget

77] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

78] It is more pain to do nothing than something

79] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

80] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

81] Home is where the heart is

82] Nature will have her course

83] A wise man hears one word and understands two

84] The weakest goes to the wall

85] A hedge between keeps friendship green

86] The game is not worth the candle

87] The value of money is having it.

88] A mouse may help a lion

89] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

90] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

91] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

92] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

93] The first step is the hardest

94] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

95] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

96] Homer sometimes nods

97] He who sows, trusts in God

98] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

99] Love is lawless.

100] Novelty always appears handsome