Proverbs | List of Proverbs and Sayings
A List of proverbs and sayings. This page contains examples of proverbs and an ever growing list of proverbs. It is a good practice to avoid use of these proverbs in poetry unless used in a completely original way.
See also: Idioms.
What is a Proverb?
A proverb is a brief and popular saying that typically gives advice about how people should live or that expresses a belief that is commonly thought to be true.
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Examples of Proverbs
Call me cousin; but cozen me not.
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Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.
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Care not, would have.
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Care will kill a cat.
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Care's no cure.
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Carefully spend, and God will send.
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Cast not pearls before swine.
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Catch a bird by putting salt on its tail.
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Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
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Catch that catch may.
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Change of fortune is the lot of life.
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Change of pasture makes fat calves.
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Charity begins at home.
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Child's pig, but father's bacon.
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Children and chickens must be always picking.
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Children and fools have merry lives.
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Children and fools speak the truth.
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Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts.
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Children are poor men's riches.
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Children should hear, see, and say nothing.
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Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.
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Choose your wife on Saturday, and not on a Sunday.
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Christmas comes but once a year.
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Civil words cost nothing, and go a long way.
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Claw me, and I will claw you.
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Climb not too high, lest the fall be the greater.
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cloth; 1s6dhalf-bound in leather, red edges.
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Clouds that the sun builds up darken him.
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Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.
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Cold of complexion, good of condition.
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Commend a wedded life, but keep thyself a batchelor.
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Comparisons are odious.
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Confession of a fault makes half amends for it.
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Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.
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Constant dropping wears the stone.
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Constant dropping wears the stone.
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Content is the true philosopher's stone.
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Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastening.
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Counsel is never out of date.
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Counsels in wine seldom prosper.
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Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
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Count not your chickens before they be hatched.
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Courtesy on one side never lasts long.
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Courts have no almanacks.
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Covet nothing over much.
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Covetousness brings nothing home.
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Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen.
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Cowards are always cruel.
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Craft bringeth nothing home.
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Crafty evasions save not the truth.
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Credit lost is a Venice glass broken.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes.
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Crooked logs make straight fires.
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Crosses are ladders for getting to heaven.
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Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
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Cruelty is a devil's delight.
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Cruelty is a tyrant always attended by fear.
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Cry you mercy, who killed my cat?
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Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost.
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Custom is second nature.
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Custom makes anything easy.
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Cut and come again.
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Cut your coat according to your cloth.
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