Famous Proverbs

1] A man may bear till his back breaks

2] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

3] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

4] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

5] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

6] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

7] Six feet of earth make all men equal

8] Fortune favours fools

9] Home is home though it be never so homely

10] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

11] Between two stools you fall to the ground

12] The mob has many heads but no brains

13] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

14] Patience is a plaster for all sores

15] Might overcome right.

16] A beggar can never be bankrupt

17] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

18] Corn him well and he will work better

19] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

20] Dirty linen should be washed at home

21] He that promises too much means nothing

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

23] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

24] Better no doctor at all than three.

25] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

26] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

27] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

28] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

29] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

30] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

31] Wedlock is padlock

32] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

33] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

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

35] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

36] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

37] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

38] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

39] One today is worth two tomorrows

40] Half a loaf is better than do bread

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

42] A good conscience is a soft pillow

43] Silence and thinking can no man offend

44] What’s in a name?

45] Misery loves company.

46] Idleness is the root of all evil

47] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

48] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

49] It is good fishing in troubled waters

50] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

51] Beauty draws more than oxen

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

53] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

54] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

55] Well begun is half done.

56] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

57] Don’t put the cart before the horse

58] Prospect is often better than possession

59] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

60] He who hesitates is lost

61] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

62] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

63] Truth is stranger than fiction

64] Slow but sure wins the race

65] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

66] You can’t take it with you when you die

67] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

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

69] The child is father of the man

70] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

71] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

72] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

73] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

75] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

76] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

77] The great would have none great, and the little all little

78] Weapons breed peace

79] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

80] Error cannot be defended but by error

81] If you want peace, prepare for war

82] Little by little and bit by bit.

83] Acorns were good till bread was found

84] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

85] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

86] One man sows and another reaps

87] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

88] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

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

90] Love knows no limit

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

92] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

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

94] Wise men silent, fools talk

95] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

96] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

97] Thrift is a great revenue

98] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

99] The beaten road is the safest

100] Empty vessels make the most sound