Famous Proverbs

1] All things that great men do are well done

2] No pain, no cure

3] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

4] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

5] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

6] Help a lame dog over a stile

7] One master in a house is enough

8] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

9] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

10] The deed comes back upon the doer.

11] Nature is the true law

12] Haste makes waste

13] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

14] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

15] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

16] Gold may be bought too dear

17] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

18] Wishes can never fill a sack

19] Love conquers all

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

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

22] Jesters do oft prove prophets

23] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

24] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

25] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

26] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

27] Hunger breaks stone walls

28] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

29] The best things come in small packages

30] All men are mortal

31] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

32] Step by step the ladder is ascended

33] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

34] Morning dreams come true

35] Man punishes the action but God the intention

36] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

37] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

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

39] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

40] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

41] Beauty is only skin deep

42] First thrive then wive

43] Erring is not heating

44] An old dog barks not in vain

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

46] He that obey cannot command

47] Many hands make light work

48] Do as I say, not as I do

49] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

50] Waste is not grandeur

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

52] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

53] Who greases his way travels easily

54] Children and fools cannot lie.

55] Discontent is the first step in progress

56] Little wealth, little care

57] Words cut more than swords

58] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

59] Custom reconciles us to everything

60] He knows which side his bread is buttered

61] No man is infallible

62] A goose drinks as much as gander

63] He who never was sick dies the first fit

64] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

65] Open a book and you profit by what you read

66] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

67] He gives twice who gives quickly

68] A man can do no more than he can

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

70] Union is strength.

71] Every why has a wherefore

72] A good lather is half the shave

73] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

74] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

75] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

76] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

77] Hungry bellies have no ears

78] Every commodity has its discommodity

79] Let the buyer beware

80] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

81] A fool may give a wise man counsel

82] Asking costs little

83] Great gain makes easy work

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

85] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

86] A parrot will only say what it is taught

87] Home is where the heart is

88] Give and spend, and God will send

89] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

90] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

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

92] One sword keeps another in the sheath

93] Love and business teach eloquence

94] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

95] Men are blind in their own cause

96] Care killed the cat

97] A word before is worth two behind

98] Where god will help, nothing does harm

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

100] Gifts blind the eyes.