Famous Proverbs

1] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

2] Four eyes see better than two.

3] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

4] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

5] Honesty is ill to thrive by

6] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

7] Rome was not built in a day

8] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

9] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

10] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

11] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

12] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

13] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

14] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

15] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

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

17] Who greases his way travels easily

18] Life begins only in success

19] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

20] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

21] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

22] Make hay while the sun shines

23] Distance lends enchantment to the view

24] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

25] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

26] If you would be well served, serve yourself

27] There is nothing new under the sun

28] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

29] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

30] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

31] One potter envies another

32] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

33] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

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

35] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

36] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

37] Trust is the mother of deceit

38] One man’s means another man’s poison

39] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

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

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

42] Laugh and grow fat

43] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

44] He that repairs not a part, builds all

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

46] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

47] Plain dealing is best

48] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

49] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

50] He who does no good, does evil enough

51] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

52] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

53] Findings are keepings

54] Every dog is valiant at his won door

55] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

56] No man so good but another may be as good as he

57] All things are possible with god

58] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

59] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

60] Talk much end err much

61] Idleness is the root of all evil

62] Travel broadens the mind

63] Lookers-on see most of the game

64] Long life has long misery

65] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

66] Never spur a willing horse

67] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

68] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

69] Speech is silver, silence is golden

70] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

71] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

72] The exception proves the rule

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

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

75] Union is strength.

76] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

77] The ass that brays most eats

78] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

79] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

80] Don’t take your harp to the party

81] Truth is god’s daughter

82] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

83] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

84] A good heart cannot lie.

85] A good name is sooner lost than won

86] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

87] Work won’t kill but worry will.

88] He that is down need fear no fall

89] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

90] There is nothing permanent except change

91] Old habits die hard

92] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

93] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

94] Hitch your wagon to a star

95] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

96] Patience is the remedy of the world

97] Sorrow will pay no debt

98] Garbage in, garbage out

99] Good ware makes quick market

100] Patient waiters are no losers