Famous Proverbs

1] If one will not, another will

2] Think of ease, but work on.

3] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

4] A man can do no more than he can

5] He that has no money needs no purse

6] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

7] It is best to be on the safe side

8] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

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

10] Like mother, like daughter

11] Wash your dirty linen at home

12] Lookers-on see more than players

13] You cannot serve God and Mammon

14] Sow thin and mow thin

15] The word is far him who has patience

16] The greatest talkers are the least doers

17] Many doctors, death accomplished

18] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

19] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

20] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

21] Haste makes waste

22] Fair exchange is no robbery

23] Might overcome right.

24] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

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

26] The best of men are but men at best.

27] One must be a servant before one can be a master

28] Intimacy lessens fame

29] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

30] An angry man is not fit to pray

31] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

32] Love delights in praise

33] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

34] Long absent, soon forgotten

35] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

36] One fool praises another

37] Speech is silver, silence is golden

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

39] Barking dogs seldom bite

40] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

41] Great oaks from little acorns grow

42] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

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

44] Far fowls have fair feather

45] A hungry man is angry man

46] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

47] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

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

49] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

50] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

51] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

52] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

53] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

54] The mob tramples on the coward

55] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

56] Experience is the best teacher

57] Manners make the man

58] No one betrays himself by silence

59] Muck and money go together

60] Nature is content with little.

61] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

62] Fine words dress ill deeds

63] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

64] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

65] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

66] Affection blinds reason

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

68] Put not the bucket too often in the well

69] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

70] Give and take is fair play

71] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

72] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

73] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

74] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

75] Fool’s haste is no speed

76] Needs must when the evil drives

77] You cannot have it both ways

78] Soon hot, soon cold

79] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

80] The devil is not as black as he is painted

81] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

82] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

83] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

84] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

85] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

86] Wake not a sleeping lion

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

88] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

89] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

90] He who sows, trusts in God

91] Idle folks have the least leisure

92] Fine feathers make fine birds.

93] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

94] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

95] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

96] Men do more things through habit than reason

97] Virtue has all things in itself

98] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

99] A good name is better than riches

100] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.