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
Early sow, early mow.
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Eat a bit before you drink.
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Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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Eating and drinking takes away one's appetite.
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Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
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England is the Paradise of women.
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Enough and to spare is too much.
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Enough is as good as a feast.
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Envy never enriched any man.
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Even a clown clings to his cloak when it rains.
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Even small birds must have meat.
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Even so accomplished a scholar as MrGladstone— quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus —errs; in a recently published number of the Nineteenth Century , quoting Byron's words,
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Evening orts are good morning fodder.
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Ever drunk, ever dry.
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Every "may be" hath a "may not be."
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Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses.
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Every bean has its black.
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Every bird must hatch her own egg.
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Every cloud hath a silver lining.
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Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.
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Every couple is not a pair.
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Every cross has its inscription.
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Every dog has his day.
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Every Jack has his Jill.
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Every light has its shadow.
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Every light is not the sun.
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Every man as his business lies.
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Every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Every man has his hobby-horse.
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Every man has his humour.
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Every man hath his faults.
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Every man is a pilot in a calm sea.
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Every man is best known to himself.
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Every man is either a fool or a physician after thirty years of age.
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Every man is the architect of his fortune.
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Every man must eat a peck of ashes before he dies.
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Every man to his trade.
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Every man will shoot at the enemy, but few will go to fetch the shaft.
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Every one as they like best, as the good man said when he kissed his cow.
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Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth.
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Every one can tame a shrew but he that hath her.
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Every one has a penny to spend at a new ale-house.
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Every one puts his fault on the times.
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Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads.
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Every path hath a puddle.
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Every shoe fits not every foot.
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Every sow to her own trough.
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Every tide has its ebb.
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Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
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Everybody's business is nobody's business.
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Everything hath an end, and a pudding hath two.
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Everything is good in its season.
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Everything is the worse for wearing.
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Everything would live.
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Evil communications corrupt good manners.
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Evil gotten, evil spent.
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Example teaches more than precept.
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Excerpts from the Press Notices of Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs
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Exchange is no robbery.
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Experience is a dear school, but it is the only one we are apt to learn in.
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Experience is the mistress of fools.
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Extracts from Opinions of the Press
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Extremes meet.
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Extremes seldom last long.
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