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
Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
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Pains are the wages of ill-pleasures.
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Painted pictures are dead speakers.
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Pardon all men, but never thyself.
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Patch and sit long, build and soon flit.
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Pater-noster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.
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Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden.
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Patience is a plaister for all sores.
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Pay as you go.
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Pay him in his own coin.
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Pen and ink are a wit's plough.
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Penny wise and pound foolish.
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People are sometimes better contented full than fasting.
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Pepper is black, yet it hath a good smack.
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Peril proves who dearly loves.
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Perseverance kills the game.
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Physician heal thyself.
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Pity, promises, and blame, are always cheap and plentiful.
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Plain dealing's a jewel.
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Pleasing ware is half sold.
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Plenty as blackberries.
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Pocket an injury.
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Poor folk are glad of pottage.
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Poor folk have few kindred.
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Possession is nine points of the law, and they say there are but ten.
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Pour not water on a drowned mouse.
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Poverty breeds strife.
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Poverty is the mother of health.
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Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows.
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Poverty parteth good fellowship.
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Poverty parts friends.
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Practice makes perfect.
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Praise a fair day at night.
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Prate is but prate; Tis money buys land.
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Prettiness dies quickly.
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Prettiness makes no pottage.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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Pride feels no pain.
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Pride goes before, and shame follows after.
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Pride will have a fall.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Promises are too much like pie-crusts, made to be broken.
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Proportion your expenses to what you have, not to what you expect.
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Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them.
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Proverbs are the texts of common life.
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Pry not into other people's affairs.
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Puff not against the wind.
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Pull down your hat on the wind side.
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Pull gently on a weak rope.
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Punctuality begets confidence.
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Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you.
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Put no faith in tale-bearers.
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