Famous Proverbs

1] The last suitor wins the maid

2] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

3] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

4] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

5] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

6] Extremes meet

7] Much would have more

8] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

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

10] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

11] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

12] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

13] Pitchers have ears

14] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

15] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

16] First impressions are most lasting

17] It is too late to look up after you have collided

18] Mirth is the sugar of life

19] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

20] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

21] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

22] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

23] Children and chickens must be always picking

24] In indecision itself, grief is present.

25] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

26] Give and take is fair play

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

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

29] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

30] Best is cheapest

31] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

32] Rust wastes more than use

33] Good broth may be made in an old pot

34] When the cat is away, the mice will play

35] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

36] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

37] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

38] One must howl with the wolves

39] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

40] Think of ease, but work on.

41] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

42] He that blows best, bears away the horn

43] Slow but sure wins the race

44] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

45] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

46] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

47] There is no blindness like ignorance

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

49] There is nothing that costs less than civility

50] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

51] Of three main roads, take the middle one

52] Tomorrow is another day

53] Often and little eating makes a man fat

54] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

55] Frugality is the mother of virtue

56] The slowest barker is the surest biter

57] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

58] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

59] Wink at small faults

60] You may know by a handful the whole sack

61] The unexpected always happens.

62] Know thyself

63] Blue are the far away hills

64] Bad excuses are worse than none.

65] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

66] It is the unexpected that always happens

67] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

68] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

69] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

70] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

71] Patient waiters are no losers

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

73] The great fish eat up the small

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

75] Great trees keep down the little ones

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

77] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

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

79] A good heart cannot lie.

80] Lucky men need no counsel

81] A woman’s work is never done

82] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

83] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

84] Like question, like answer.

85] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

86] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

87] Dogs bark as they are bred.

88] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

89] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

90] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

91] He that eats well should do his duty well

92] A crust is better than no bread.

93] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

94] Easier said than done

95] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

96] Love me, love my dog

97] Big fish eat little fish

98] He that has good money, gives few alms

99] The cobbler should stick to his last

100] In fair weather prepare for foul