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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


Keep a thing seven years, and you will find a use for it.
Keep from the anger of a great man.
Keep me from still water; from that which is rough I can keep myself.
Keep some till more come.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
Keep your tongue within your teeth.
Keeping from falling is better than helping up.
Kindness will always conquer.
Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.
Kissing goes by favour.
Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long run.
Knaves and fools divide the world.
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge, like physic, is more plague than profit, if it arrives too late.



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