Famous Proverbs

1] Good clothes open all doors

2] A good marksman may miss

3] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

4] Wedlock is padlock

5] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

6] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

7] It costs more to do ill than to do well

8] Self-praise is no recommendation

9] Children speak only words they have heard.

10] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

11] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

12] Speech is silver, silence is golden

13] Homo is a common name to all men.

14] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

15] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

16] Dead dogs bark not

17] An old horse knows the route

18] Example is the greatest of all seducers

19] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

20] Better unborn than untaught

21] He that pities another remembers himself

22] Good broth may be made in an old pot

23] Expectation is better than realisation

24] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

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

26] God sends cold after Clothes

27] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

28] The best things carried to excess are wrong

29] Nature will have her course

30] Soon hot, soon cold

31] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

32] A willful man will have his way

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

34] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

35] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

36] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

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

38] Spend and be free, but make no waste

39] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

40] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

41] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

42] Full of courtesy, full of craft

43] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

44] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

45] He that has an ill name is half hanged

46] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

47] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

48] If you play with fire you get burnt

49] We are all Adam’s children

50] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

51] Patience surpasses learning

52] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

53] Spend and be free, but make no waste

54] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

55] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

56] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

57] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

58] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

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

60] Even Homer sometimes nods

61] Slow help is no help

62] Good clothes open all doors

63] He who demands does not command

64] Love knows no limit

65] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

66] Look before you leap

67] Hungry bellies have no ears

68] God is always on the side of the big battalions

69] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

70] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

71] Ill gotten, ill spent

72] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

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

74] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

75] Good fame is better than a good face

76] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

77] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

78] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

79] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

80] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

81] You may have too much of a good thing

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

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

84] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

85] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

86] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

87] Asking costs little

88] The righteous man sins before an open chest

89] Soft fire makes sweet malt

90] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

91] A man in debt is caught in a net

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

93] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

94] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

95] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

96] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

97] Hope is the poor man’s bread

98] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

99] Abundance, like want, ruins many

100] Beggars must not be choosers