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
Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.
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Of all the crafts honesty is the master-craft.
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Of evil grain no good seed can come.
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Of idleness comes no goodness.
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Of nothing comes nothing.
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Of saving cometh having.
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Of sufferance comes ease.
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Of two evils choose the lesser.
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Old age is honourable.
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Old fools are the worst of fools.
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Old foxes need no tutors.
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Old friends and old wine are best.
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Old friends to meet, old wine to drink, and old wood to burn.
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Old men are twice children.
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Old praise dies, unless you feed it.
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Old saws speak the truth.
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Old young, and old long.
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Old young, old long.
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Older and wiser.
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On a dark night an owl would be glad of a lantern.
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On Candlemas day throw candle and candle-stick away.
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On Candlemas day you must have half your straw and half your hay.
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On painting and fighting look aloof off.
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On the sea sail; on the land settle.
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Once a use and ever a custom.
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Once a year butter is in the cow's horn.
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Once well done is twice done.
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One barber shaves not so close but another finds work.
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One beats the bush and another catcheth the bird.
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One can never have too much of a good thing.
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One cannot be in two places at once.
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One eye of the master sees more than four of the servants'.
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One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
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One flower makes no garland.
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One fool makes many.
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One God, no more; but friends good store.
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One good turn deserves another.
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One good turn deserves another.
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One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
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One hand will not clasp.
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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.
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One ill word asketh another.
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One lie makes many.
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One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge.
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One man may lead a horse to water, but fifty cannot make him drink.
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One may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
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One may see day at a little hole.
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One may sooner fall than rise.
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One may think that dares not speak.
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One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil.
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One never loseth by doing good turns.
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One pair of heels is often worth two pair of hands.
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One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock.
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One sheep follows another.
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One story is good until another's told.
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One swallow does not make a summer.
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One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter.
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One tongue is enough for a woman.
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One woodcock does not make a winter.
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Open confession is good for the soul.
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Opportunity lingers sometimes.
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Opportunity makes the thief.
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Oppression causeth rebellion.
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Out of debt, out of danger.
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Out of sight out of mind.
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Out of sight, out of mind.
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Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
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Over boots, over shoes.
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Over haste makes certain waste.
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Oysters are not good in the month that hath not an R in it.
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