Famous Proverbs

1] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

2] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

3] An old man is a bed full of bones

4] Dead men don’t bite

5] That which Nature paints never fades

6] Every man is his own worst enemy

7] Patient men with the day.

8] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

9] Do it now

10] Who suffers much is silent

11] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

12] The tongue talks at the heads cost

13] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

14] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

15] There is nothing permanent except change

16] Gold may be bought too dear

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

18] Virtue is the only true nobility

19] The best things carried to excess are wrong

20] Discontent is the first step in progress

21] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

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

23] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

24] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

25] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

26] Dogs bark as they are bred.

27] Every medal has its reverse

28] He that cannot ask, cannot live

29] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

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

31] A good drink makes the old young

32] Safety lies in the middle course

33] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

34] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

35] Light grows the burden which is well borne

36] Manners and money make a gentleman

37] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

38] Spend and be free, but make no waste

39] The thing which is rare is dear

40] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

41] Don’t meet trouble half-way

42] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

43] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

44] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

45] Wise men are caught in wiles

46] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

47] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

48] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

49] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

50] What is money to a cat?

51] One cannot love and be wise

52] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

53] The course of true love never did run smooth

54] Covetousness is the root of all evil

55] A word to the wise is enough

56] What’s done cannot be undone

57] Our own opinion is never wrong

58] He that lends, gives

59] Variety is charming

60] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

61] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

62] You cannot serve God and Mammon

63] Open a book and you profit by what you read

64] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

65] Good counsel never comes amiss

66] Honest is the best policy

67] Truth has no need of rhetoric

68] Loyalty is worth more than money

69] Laugh and grow fat

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

71] Self-praise is no recommendation

72] The bait hides the hook

73] First impressions are half the battle

74] Danger makes men devout

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

76] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

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

78] Dying men speak true

79] Of evil manners, spring good laws

80] It is too late to call back yesterday

81] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

82] Beauty is but skin-deep

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

84] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

85] Intimacy lessens fame

86] The poor suffer all the wrong

87] Every why has a wherefore

88] See which way the cat jumps

89] Judge not of men and things at first sight

90] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

91] There’s no place like home

92] Every commodity has its discommodity

93] When meat is in anger is out

94] A penny saved is a penny gained

95] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

96] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

97] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

98] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

99] Least said, soonest mended

100] Homo is a common name to all men.