Famous Proverbs

1] Kind hearts are more than coronets

2] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

3] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

4] Beware of a silent man and still water

5] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

6] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

7] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

8] Dead dogs bark not

9] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

10] Life begins only in success

11] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

12] Wisdom is better than strength

13] A hedge between keeps friendship green

14] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

15] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

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

17] In fair weather prepare for foul

18] Take the will for the deed

19] Forgive and forget

20] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

21] A good heart cannot lie.

22] The mean is the best

23] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

24] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

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

26] There is nothing permanent except change

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

28] One hand washes the other

29] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

30] Hitch your wagon to a star

31] Once a use and ever a custom

32] Grin and bear it

33] A piece of churchyard fits every body

34] A hungry man is angry man

35] Dying is as natural as living

36] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

37] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

38] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

39] Do not kick against the pricks

40] Waste not, want not

41] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

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

43] Every groom is a king at home

44] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

45] The sign brings customers

46] Everything in moderation.

47] Silence is golden

48] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

49] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

50] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

51] Make haste slowly

52] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

53] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

54] Love laughs at locksmiths

55] A fault once denied is twice committed

56] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

57] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

58] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

59] Poverty parts friendship

60] Distance lends enchantment to the view

61] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

62] Where there is no might, right loses itself

63] Better be born lucky than wise.

64] Children should be seen and not heard

65] Ambition makes people diligent

66] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

67] Years know more than books

68] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

69] A willful man will have his way

70] The first step is the only difficulty

71] The garment worn determines how one is served

72] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

73] Where there’s muck, there’s money

74] No cross, no crown

75] Virtue is its own reward

76] Ready money is ready medicine

77] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

78] Content is better than riches

79] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

80] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

81] Who greases his way travels easily

82] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

83] Beauty is only skin deep

84] Nature surpasses art

85] Things are only worth one makes them worth

86] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

87] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

88] Knowledge is power

89] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

90] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

91] True doctrines require no miracles

92] After a storm comes a calm

93] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

94] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

95] There are more ways to the wood than one.

96] See which way the cat jumps

97] Saying is one thing, and doing another

98] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

99] Curiosity killed the cat.

100] What is word but wind?