Famous Proverbs

1] By falling we learn to go safely

2] An obedient wife commands her husband

3] Waste makes wants

4] Ignorance is the peace of life

5] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

6] Bad luck often brings good luck

7] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

8] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

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

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

11] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

12] New meat begets a new appetite

13] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

14] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

15] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

16] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

17] Put out your tubs when it is raining

18] Borrowed garments never fit well

19] Death keeps no calendar

20] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

21] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

22] Waste not, want not

23] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

24] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

25] The best things carried to excess are wrong

26] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

27] See how the wind blows

28] A man’s wealth is his enemy

29] No news is good news

30] First creep, then walk

31] Pleasant hours fly past

32] You never know what you can do till you try

33] III counsel mars all

34] He who hesitates is lost

35] Strength grows stronger by being tried

36] Beauty is only skin deep

37] A loveless life is a living death

38] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

39] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

40] He knows which side his bread is buttered

41] Loyalty is worth more than money

42] Bad news travels fast

43] Little and often fills the purse

44] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

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

46] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

47] Master easy, servant slack

48] The first step is the only difficulty

49] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

50] All lay loads on a willing horse

51] An evil life is a kind of death.

52] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

53] Words bind men

54] The ass that brays most eats

55] Where there is whispering there is lying

56] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

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

58] It is easy to be wise after the event

59] Men are not angles

60] No choice amongst stinking fish

61] Call a spade a spade

62] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

63] Respect is greater from a distance

64] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

65] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

66] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

67] It is ill jesting with edged tools

68] Love cannot be compelled

69] The axe falls on a straight tree first

70] Sickness shows us what we are

71] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

72] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

73] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

74] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

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

76] Nothing is so certain as death

77] In wine there is truth

78] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

79] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

80] Gossiping and lying go together

81] Still waters run deep

82] Better beg than steal.

83] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

84] No sweet without sweat

85] Good wine needs no bush

86] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

87] There is no time like the present

88] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

89] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

90] There is nothing that costs less than civility

91] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

92] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

93] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

94] Love is without reason

95] Death does not recognize strength

96] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

97] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

98] The coward threatens only when he is safe

99] When wine sinks, words swim

100] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number