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
Labour warms, sloth harms.
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Land was never lost for want of an heir.
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Law makers should not be law breakers.
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Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
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Laws were made for rogues.
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Lazy folk take the most pains.
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Learn to say before you sing.
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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Least said is soonest mended.
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Lee as writing
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Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
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Let every pedlar carry his own pack.
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Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
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Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
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Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.
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Let the best dog leap the stile first.
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Let the buyer look out for himself.
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Let the weakest go to the wall.
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Let them laugh that win.
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Let well alone.
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Let your purse be your master.
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Liars have short wings.
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Life is full of hazards, which experience neither bought nor taught will always enable us to foresee.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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Life is sweet.
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Life lies not in living, but in liking.
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Light gains make a heavy purse.
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Light suppers make long lives.
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Like a barber's chair, fit for every buttock.
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Like a treatise on light and colours by a blind man.
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Like author, like book.
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Like carrying coals to Newcastle.
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Like father like son.
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Like master like man.
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Like will to like.
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Lips however rosy must be fed.
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Listeners never hear good of themselves.
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Little and often fills the purse.
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Little and often fills the purse.
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Little birds may peck a dead lion.
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Little boats must keep the shore.
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Little bodies have large souls.
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Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it.
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Little goods, little care.
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Little minds, like weak liquors, are soon soured.
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Little mother, little daughter.
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Little pitchers have long ears.
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Little sticks kindle the fire, but great ones put it out.
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Little strokes fell great oaks.
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Little things please little minds.
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Live and learn.
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Live and let live.
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Live not to eat, but eat to live.
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London: Whittaker & Co
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Long absent, soon forgotten.
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Long looked for comes at last.
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Look before you leap.
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Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
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Look to the cow, and the sow, and the wheat mow, and all will be well enow.
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Look to the main chance.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you'll be all day hunting for it.
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Lose nothing for asking.
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Losers are always in the wrong.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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Love and lordship like no fellowship.
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Love and lordship never like friendship.
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Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
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Love is blind.
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Love is no lack.
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
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Love me little, love me long.
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Love me, love my dog.
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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
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Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.
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Lovers live on love, as larks on leeks.
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Lowly sit and be richly warm.
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