Famous Proverbs

1] Time flees without a delay

2] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

3] All doors open to courtesy

4] Bold men have generous hearts

5] Put out your tubs when it is raining

6] The king can do no wrong

7] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

8] Grasp all, lose all

9] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

10] Example is better than precept

11] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

12] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

13] A good name is better than a golden girdle

14] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

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

16] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

17] In everything consider the end

18] Tomorrow never comes

19] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

20] First thrive then wive

21] No good building without a good foundation.

22] Every oak has been an acorn

23] A crust is better than no bread.

24] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

25] A bully is always a coward

26] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

27] A good husband makes a good wife

28] A good paymaster needs no surety

29] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

30] Lucky men need no counsel

31] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

32] A hedge between keeps friendship green

33] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

34] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

35] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

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

37] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

38] It’s a long lane that has no turning

39] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

40] A true man and a thief think not the same

41] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

42] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

43] It is useless to flog a dead horse

44] Whatever man has done, man can do

45] Wrong never comes right

46] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

47] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

48] Everything comes to him who waits

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

50] The first blow is half the battle

51] You never know your luck

52] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

53] Pleasing ware is half sold

54] Call no man happy till he is dead

55] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

56] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

57] Gold is tried in the fire

58] Time has wings

59] Health and wealth create beauty

60] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

61] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

62] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

63] Rich folk have many friends

64] All glory comes from daring to begin

65] Take the tone of the company you are in

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

67] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

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

69] In indecision itself, grief is present.

70] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

71] God’s help is better than the early rising

72] Money is power

73] Everything must have a beginning

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

75] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

76] When the word is out it belongs to another

77] An obedient wife commands her husband

78] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

79] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

80] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

81] Union (or Unity) is strength

82] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

83] Marriage is a lottery

84] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

85] Take things as you find them

86] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

87] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

88] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

89] He who leaps high must take a long run

90] There is a black sheep in every flock

91] Marriage makes or mars a man

92] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

93] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

94] There is no redemption from hell

95] Numbers overcome the brave

96] Many eyes upon the king

97] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

98] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

99] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

100] A bad shearer never had a good sickle