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
Gather thistles, expect prickles.
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Gems must not be valued by what they are set in.
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Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
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Gentle strokes make the sweetest harmony.
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Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax.
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Give a dog a bone in his mouth, and you may kick him and he can't bite.
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Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea.
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Give a thief rope enough and he'll hang himself.
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Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell.
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Give it plenty of elbow grease.
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Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it.
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Give the devil his due.
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God healeth, and the physician hath the thanks.
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God help the rich, the poor can beg.
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God never measures men by inches.
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God reacheth us good things with our own hands.
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God send me a friend that may tell me my faults; if not, an enemy, he will be sure to.
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God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.
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God tempers the wind to the shorn sheep.
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Gold alone makes not prosperity.
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Gold dust blinds all eyes.
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Gold goes in at any gate, except Heaven's.
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Good ale is meat, drink, and cloth.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Good counsel never comes too late.
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Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.
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Good measure is a merry mean.
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Good servants make good masters.
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Good take heed doth surely speed.
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Good to begin well; better to end well.
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Good wares make quick markets.
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Good watch prevents misfortune.
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Good wine needs no bush.
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Good words cool more than cold water.
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Good words fill not a sack.
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Grasp all, lose all.
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Grasp no more than thy hand will hold.
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Grass grows not upon the highway.
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
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Great boast, small roast.
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Great braggers, little doers.
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Great cry and little wool.
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Great marks are soonest hit.
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Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary.
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Great spenders are bad lenders.
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Green Christmas, white Easter.
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Green wood makes a hot fire.
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Grief pent up will burst the heart.
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