Famous Proverbs

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

2] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

3] No man is indispensable

4] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

5] Cleanliness is next to godliness

6] Ready money is ready medicine

7] The best things in life are free

8] A change is as good as rest

9] If today will not, tomorrow may

10] If you would be well served, serve yourself

11] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

12] An ill tongue may do much

13] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

14] The first step is the hardest

15] Never too late to late to repent

16] Eat to live and not live to eat.

17] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

18] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

19] A constant guest is never welcome

20] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

21] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

22] From small beginnings come great things

23] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

24] There is nothing permanent except change

25] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

26] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

27] Silence never makes mistakes

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

29] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

30] A woman’s work is never done

31] He is wise who looks ahead

32] Silence and thinking can no man offend

33] Ready money is a ready remedy

34] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

35] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

36] Dead dogs bark not

37] A strong town is not won in an hour

38] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

39] Children and fools cannot lie.

40] There’s always room at the top

41] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

42] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

43] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

44] Work won’t kill but worry will.

45] It is too late to husband when all is spent

46] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

47] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

48] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

49] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

50] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

51] Bad excuses are worse than none.

52] Nothing comes from nothing

53] Misfortune makes foes of friends

54] Better children weep than old men

55] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

56] A watched pot never boils

57] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

58] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

59] The cobbler should stick to his last

60] Hungry bellies have no ears

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

62] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

63] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

64] The game is not worth the candle

65] A good name is better than a golden girdle

66] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

67] You are never too old to learn

68] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

69] God is always on the side of the big battalions

70] No man fears what he has seen grow

71] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

72] Every man to his trade.

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

74] A good paymaster never wants workmen

75] He who envies admits his inferiority

76] Experience is the mother of wisdom

77] Good fences make good neighbours

78] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

79] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

80] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

81] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

82] All is fair in love and war

83] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

84] Wrong never comes right

85] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

86] He who sows, trusts in God

87] Advice when most needed is least heeded

88] Practice is the science that gives confidence

89] A great city, a great solitude

90] Plain dealing is best

91] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

92] New meat begets a new appetite

93] A man’s mother is his other God

94] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

95] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

96] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

97] Good words are worth much and cost little

98] Adventures are to be adventurous

99] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

100] Life begins only in success