| १ | अडाणी कुणबी दुणा राबे | He that goes the contrary way must go over it twice. |
| २ | अति शहाणा त्याचा बैल रिकामा | Pennywise, poundfoolish. |
| ३ | अति सर्वत्र वर्जयेत् | Avoid extremes. |
| ४ | आधीं अननं मागून तननं | Food before song. |
| ५ | अन्नसत्रीं जेवणें आणि मिरपूड मागणें | To dine upon charity and call out for sauce. |
| ६ | अरे तर कां रे, अहो तर कांहो ! | For the civil, civility; for the saucy, sauce. |
| ७ | असतीं मुलें लहान, परी तिखंट त्यांचे कान | Little pitchers have great ears. |
| ८ | असतील शितें तर जमतील भुतें | He that is poor, all his kindred scorn him; he that is rich, all are kin to him. Where the carcase is the ravens will gather. |
| ९ | अडक्याची देवता तिला सापिक्याचा शेंदूर | You need not get a golden pen to write upon dirt. |
| १० | आंत असे जसें, बाहेर पडे तसें | If better were within, better would come out. |
| ११ | आंथरूण पाहून पाय पसरावे | Stretch your legs according to your coverlet. |
| १२ | आंधळ्याशीं जन सारेच आंधळे | (1) You measure every one’s houesty by your own. |
| | | (2) You measure every one’s corn by your own bushel |
| १३ | मी हसे लोकां, शेंबुड माझ्या नाका | He that scoffs at the crooked had need go very upright himself. |
| १४ | आप भला तर जग भलें | Good mind good find. |
| १५ | आभाळावर थुंके तो आपल्याच तोंडावर थुंके | He that hews above his height may have chips in his eyes. |
| १६ | (१) आयजीच्या घरावर बायजी उदार. | (1) You are very free of another’s pottage. |
| | (२) हलवायाच्या घरावर ब्रह्मार्पण. | (2) You cut large thongs out of another’s hide. |
| | (३) गोठणच्या गायी आणि माभळभट दान देई | |
| १७ | ओल्या मडक्याचा कांठ लववावा तसा लवतो | Youth and white paper take any impression. |
| १८ | आंवळा देऊन कोहोळा काढणें | You bring a bit of wire and take away a bar. |
| १९ | आस्वलाच्या आधीं किंकाळी | You cry out before you are hurt. |
| २० | आळशास दुणें काम आणि लोभ्यास दुणा खर्च | Lazy folks take the most pains. |
| २१ | उथळ पाण्याला खळखळ फार | He that knows little, soon repeats it. |
| २२ | (१) एकादशीच्या घरीं शिवरात्र | (1) Tis very hard to shave an egg. |
| | (२) हातीं धरल्या रोडका आणि डोई धरल्या बोडका | (2) Where nothing is, nothing can be had. |
| २३ | एका म्यानांत दोन सुऱ्या राहात नाहींत | Two of a trade seldom agree. |
| २४ | एका हातानें टाळी वाजत नाहीं | It needs two to make a quarrel. |
| २५ | काडीचोर तो पाडीचोर | (1) He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing. |
| | | (2) He that will steal an egg will steal an ox. |
| २६ | कुंभारास मडकें धड नाहीं, | The shoemaker’s wife and the smith’s mare are always the worst shod. |
| | (२) पगडबंधाचें पागोटें मोडकें. | The shoemaker’s wife and the smith’s mare are always the worst shod. |
| | (३) चांभाराचा जोडा फाटका. | The shoemaker’s wife and the smith’s mare are always the worst shod. |
| | (४) वैद्याची पोरें गालगुंडानें मेलीं | The shoemaker’s wife and the smith’s mare are always the worst shod. |
| २७ | खोल पाण्यांत शिरूं नये | No safe wading in an unknown water. |
| २८ | क्वचित्काणो भवेत्साधुः | He that winketh with one eye, and seeth with the other, I would not trust him, though he were my brother. |
| २९ | गर्जेल तो पडेल काय ? | Barking dogs seldom bite. |
| ३० | गळा कापला खोकला गेला | The remedy worse than the disease. |
| ३१ | गळ्यांत माळा पोटांत काळा | Beads about the neck and the devil in the heart. |
| ३२ | गुरु तसा चेला | Like priest, like people. |
| ३३ | गूळ नाहीं पण गुळाची वाचा तर खरी | He that has no silver in his purse should have silver on his tongue. |
| ३४ | गुळ नाहीं तर गुळासारखी वाचा तरी असावी | He that in his purse lacks money, has in his mouth much need of honey. |
| ३५ | गेली घडी येत नाहीं | An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. |
| ३६ | घर जळल्यावरी पाण्याचा शोध करी | To shut the stable-door after the horse is fled, (or stolen). |
| ३७ | घोडें खाई भाडें | The horse is eating his head off. |
| ३८ | चढेल तो पडेल; पोहेल तो बुडेल | Who never climbed, never fell. |
| ३९ | चाकरी करावी आणि भाकरी मागावी | He who serves well need not be afraid to ask wages. |
| ४० | चिखलांत धोंडा टाकला तर चिखल तोंडावर उडणारच ! | He that handles pitch shall foul his fingers. |
| ४१ | चितेपेक्षां चिंता कठिण | Care will kill a cat. |
| ४२ | चोर सोडून संन्याशाला सुळीं देणें. | One doth the scath, and another hath the scorn. |
| | (२) करतो एक आणि भरतो एक | |
| ४३ | जमिनींतून पाऊस पडत नसतो | Pigs don’t fly. |
| ४४ | जसें पेरावें तसें उगवतें | (1) As ye sow, so shall ye reap. |
| | | (2) He that sows thistles shall reap prickles. |
| ४५ | जोंवर श्वास तोंवर आस | While there is life, there is hope. |
| ४६ | ज्याची खावी पोळी त्याची वाजवावी टाळी | Of whom you eat salt, him laud and exalt. |
| ४७ | टाका आगळें लिहावें आणि घासा आगळें जेवावें | Who eats and leaves, has another meal good. |
| ४८ | टांकीचे घाव सोसल्यावांचून देवपणा येत नाहीं | He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. |
| ४९ | तुम तांडेल हं तांडेल तो घमत कोण सांडेल ? (घमत-होडीमध्यें झिरपून आलेलें पाणी, हें न काढल्यास, होडी बुडेल) | You shout and I shout, who shall carry the dirt out ? |
| ५० | (१) तुळशींत भांग आणि भांगेंत तुळस | Wholesome and poisonous herbs grow in the same garden. |
| | (२) गांव तेथें म्हारवाडा | Wholesome and poisonous herbs grow in the same garden. |
| ५१ | थेंबें थेंबें तळें सांचे | Step after step the ladder is ascended. |
| ५२ | दिव्याखालीं अंधेर | Every light has its own shadow. |
| ५३ | दुधानें भाजला तो ताक देखील फुंकून पितो | (1) He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope. |
| | | (2) Once bit, twice shy. |
| ५४ | दोघांचें भांडण आणि तिसऱ्यास लाभ | Two dogs strive for a bone, and the third runs away with it. |
| ५५ | धर्माची गाय आणि म्हणे दांत कां गे न्हाय (नाहींत) ? | Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth. |
| ५६ | धारिष्टास देव धारजिणें | Fortune favours the brave. |
| ५७ | धुळीवर सारवण | You pour water into a sieve. |
| ५८ | (१) नको नको आणि पायलीचें चाखो. | To strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. |
| | (२) जातो तेथें हत्ती जातो, नाहीं तेथें सुईही जात नाहीं | |
| ५९ | नव्याचे नऊ दिवस | Wonder lasts but nine nights in a town. |
| ६० | नागेश्वराला नागवून सोमेश्वराला घांट बांधणें | (1) They steal the hog and give away the feet in alms. |
| | | (2) Steal the goose and give the giblets in alms. |
| ६१ | नेसतां येईना लुगडें तोकडें; नाचतां येईना अंगण वांकडें; स्वयंपाक करितां येईना ओलीं लांकडें | A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
| ६२ | परदुःख शीतल | No one knows the weight of another’s burden. |
| ६३ | पळसाला पानें तीन | Where shall the ox go but he must labour ? |
| ६४ | पुराणमित्येष न साधु सर्वम्–जेवढें कांहीं जुनें तेवढे सारें चांगलें, किं० खरें, असें नव्हे. (एकादी गोष्ठ जुनी आहे, म्ह० फार प्राचीन काळापासून चालत आलेली आहे, येवढ्यावरूनच ती योग्य, किं० खरी, ठरते, असें नव्हे) | Antiquity is not always a mark of verity. |
| ६५ | पैशाचे तेल आणि दोन पैसे हेल | Burning a half-penny candle to find a farthing. |
| ६६ | (१) प्रत्यक्ष तें खरें. | Seeing is believing. |
| | (२) चक्षुर्वै सत्यम् | Seeing is believing. |
| | (३) खऱ्या खोट्यांत अंतर चार बोटांचें | Seeing is believing. |
| ६७ | बाप तसा बेटा; खाण तशी माती; जाती तशी पुती | (1) As the old cock crows, so crows the young, [or, so the young learns]. |
| | | (2) The young pig grunts like the old sow. |
| ६८ | बुडत्याला हात कोण देणार ? | He that is down, down with him ! |
| ६९ | बैल गेला झोपा केला | To shut the stable-door after the horse is stolen. |
| ७० | भटाला दिली ओसरी आणि भट हातपाय पसरी | Give him an inch and he will take an ell. |
| ७१ | भरले पोटा अंजीर कडू | A full stomach loathes the honey-comb. |
| ७२ | भित्याच्या पाठीस ब्रह्मराक्षस | He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf. |
| ७३ | मौनं सर्वार्थसाधनम् | Silence seldom doth harm. |
| ७४ | म्हाताऱ्या माणसाचें लोणचें घालून ठेवावें | If you wish good advice, consult an old man. |
| ७५ | वळणाचें पाणी वळणानेंच जाईल | As the twig is bent the tree inclines. |
| ७६ | (१) वाघाची खोड काढूं नये. | Arouse not the sleeping lion. |
| | (२) सर्पाला जागा करण्यांत काय अर्थ ? | Arouse not the sleeping lion. |
| ७७ | वांझेला कातबोळ कशाला ? | He that hath no money needeth no purse. |
| ७८ | वाहात्या घोड्यावर दोन गोणी जास्ती | All lay a load on the willing horse. |
| ७९ | विकतचें शहाणपण थोर | Wit once bought is worth twice taught. |
| ८० | (१) विहीण झालें नसलें तरी मांडवाखालून गेलें आहें. | Many can pack the cards that cannot play. |
| | (२) लग्न झालें नसलें तरी मांडवाखालून गेलों नाहीं कीं काय ? | Many can pack the cards that cannot play. |
| ८१ | वैद्याचीं पोरें गालगुंडानें मेलीं | Who goes more bare than the shoemaker’s wife or the smith’s mare ? |
| ८२ | शितांवरून भाताची परीक्षा | You may know by a handful the whole sack. |
| ८३ | सतरा सुइणी आणि विणारणीचे हाल | Too many cooks spoil the broth. |
| ८४ | (१) सत्तेपुढें शहाणपणा चालत नाहीं. | Might is right. |
| | (२) बळी तो कान पिळी | Might is right. |
| ८५ | (१) समुद्रीं मासा भाणि घरीं भरंवसा | Counting chickens before they are hatched. |
| | (२) कशास नाहीं ठिकाण आणि म्हणे बुधवारचीं लग्नें | Counting chickens before they are hatched. |
| ८६ | (१) सर्वे गुणाः कांचनमाश्रयन्ते | Wealth makes worship. |
| | (२) सदर तिकडे नजर | Wealth makes worship. |
| ८७ | सहज पडे दंडवत घडे | To make a virtue of necessity. |
| ८८ | अपापाचा माल गपापा | Ill gotten, ill spent. |
| ८९ | हात ओला तर मैत्र भला | Where wealth, there friends. |
| ९० | हातचें सोडून पळत्याचे पाठीस लागणें हा मूर्खपणा | (I) He that leaves certainty, and trusts to chance, when fools pipe he may dance. |
| | | (2) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| ९१ | आयत्या बिळांत नागोबा बळी | (1) One beats the bush and another catcheth the bird. |
| | आयत्या बिळांत नागोबा बळी | (2) Foxes dig not their own holes. |
| ९२ | (१) शितावरून भाताची परीक्षा, | A straw shows which way the wind blows. |
| | (२) धाग्यावरून ताग्याची परीक्षा | A straw shows which way the wind blows. |
| ९३ | गर्वाचें घर खालीं | Pride will have a fall. |
| ९४ | घोडा मैदान जवळच आहे | The proof of the pudding is in the eating. |
| ९५ | छडी लागे छम छम विद्या येई घम घम | Spare the rod, and spoil the child. |
| ९६ | बोणलें सोपें, करणें कठिण | Saying and doing are two things. |
| ९७ | अतिपरिचयादवज्ञा | Familiarity breeds contempt. |
| ९८ | हजीर तो वजीर | First conne first served. |
| ९९ | भुकेस कोंडा, निजेस धोंडा | Hunger is the best sauce. |
| १०० | जेनो काम तेनो थाय | Let the cobbler stick to his last. |
Mast proverbs