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
Maidens must be seen and not heard.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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Make much of one, good men are scarce.
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Make not a toil of your pleasure.
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Make not fish of one, and flesh of another.
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Make not the devil blacker than he is.
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Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
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Make not your sail too large for your ship.
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Make the best of a bad bargain.
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Make the best of a bad bargain.
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Make the vine poor, and it will make you rich.
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Malice is mindful.
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Man doth what he can, and God what He will.
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Man is the head, but woman turns it.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Man reigns and woman rules.
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Manners often make fortunes.
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Many a good cow hath had a bad calf.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many can pack the cards that cannot play.
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Many drops make a shower.
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Many go for wool and come back shorn.
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Many hands make light work.
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Many kinsfolk, few friends.
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Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake.
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Many speak much that cannot speak well.
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Many things grow in the garden that were never planted there.
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Many without punishment, none without sin.
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Many words will not fill a bushel.
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March grass never did good.
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March many weathers.
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Marriage halves our griefs, and doubles our joys.
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Marriages are made in heaven.
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Marry above your match and you get a master.
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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
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Matrimony's a matter of money.
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Measure twice before you cut once.
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Meat is much, but manners is more.
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Medlars are never good till they be rotten.
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Men dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
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Men hold the reins, but the women tell them which way to drive.
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Men strain at gnats, and swallow camels!
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Merry is the feast-making until we come to the reckoning.
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Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again.
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Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
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Milk which will not be made into butter must be made into cheese.
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Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce.
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Misfortunes seldom come alone.
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Misunderstanding brings lies to town.
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Mocking is catching.
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Modesty is the handmaid of virtue.
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Money is more easily made than made use of.
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Money makes money.
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Money often makes the man.
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More afraid than hurt.
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More haste worse speed.
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More have been drowned in wine than water.
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Morning is the time for study.
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Most take all.
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Mouth civility costs little but is worth less.
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Much bran, little meal.
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Much coin much care.
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Much is expected where much is given.
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Much meat, much maladies.
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Much would have more, and lost all.
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Muddles at home make husbands roam.
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Muffled cats are bad mousers.
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Murder will out.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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