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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

Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Need makes the old wife trot.
Neighbour-quart is good quart.
Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thine actions serve the turn.
Never be ashamed to eat your meat.
Never carry two faces under one hat.
Never cry "Stinking fish."
Never fish in troubled waters.
Never leave a friend in the lurch.
Never make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Never make troubles of trifles.
Never quit certainty for hope.
Never refuse a good offer.
Never say die.
Never sigh but send.
Never sound the trumpet of your own praise.
Never split timber against the grain.
Never too old to learn.
Never trust yourself out of your depth till you can swim.
Never venture out of your depth until you can swim.
New lords new laws.
Next to love, quietness.
Nip it in the bud.
No alchemy like saving.
No cross, no crown.
No cut like unkindness.
No flying without wings.
No gains without pains.
No joy without annoy.
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
No man can flay a stone.
No man can serve two masters.
No man is his craft's master the first day.
No man knows better what good is than he that has an endured evil.
No man loves his fetters, though of gold.
No mill, no meal.
No news is good news.
No one is a fool always; every one sometimes.
No one knows the weight of another's burden.
No one knows where the shoe pinches so well as him who wears it.
No pains, no profit.
No rose without a thorn.
No sport, no pie.
No striving against the stream.
No sunshine but hath some shadow.
No sweat, no sweet.
None but fools and fiddlers sing at their meat.
None ever yet got fat on windfalls.
None is so wise but the fool overtakes him sometimes.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
Nothing came out of the sack but what was in it.
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
Nothing dries up sooner than tears.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Nothing is surer than death.
Nothing like leather.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing venture nothing win.
Now or never.



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