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A proverb is a curt, pithy saying that expresses a traditionally held truth or piece of advice, based on common sense or experience.

Nothing defines a culture as distinctly as its language, and the element of language that best encapsulates a society's values and behavior is its proverbs.

This graphic shows the words that are used in English proverbs, with the size of each word indicating how often it occurs.

Every bit and then many proverbs offer advice and uplift many of them are religious in origin, here's an additional list of biblical proverbs.

A bad penny always turns upwardly

A barking dog never bites

A bird in the manus is worth two in the bush-league

A cat may look at a king

A chain is only as strong equally its weakest link

A alter is as practiced every bit a residual

A domestic dog is a man's best friend

A drowning man volition clutch at a straw

A fish always rots from the caput down

A fool and his money are presently parted

A friend in need is a friend indeed

A gold key tin can open whatsoever door

A proficient beginning makes a proficient ending

A proficient human is hard to find

A business firm divided against itself cannot stand up

A firm is not a home

A journeying of a thousand miles begins with a unmarried step

A leopard cannot alter its spots

A picayune knowledge is a dangerous thing

A little learning is a dangerous thing

A little of what you lot fancy does you good

A homo is known by his friends

A homo who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client

A miss is as good as a mile

A new broom sweeps clean

A nod's equally good as a wink to a blind horse

A penny saved is a penny earned

A person is known past the visitor he keeps

A picture paints a thousand words

A place for everything and everything in its identify

A poor workman always blames his tools

A problem shared is a problem halved

A prophet is not recognized in his own state

A rising tide lifts all boats

A rolling rock gathers no moss

A soft answer turneth away wrath

A stitch in time saves nine

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a wing

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

A time and a identify for everything - There'southward

A trouble shared is a trouble halved

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men

A watched pot never boils

A woman is merely a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke

A adult female's place is in the domicile

A adult female'due south work is never done

A word to the wise is enough

Absenteeism makes the center abound fonder

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families).

Actions speak louder than words

Arduousness makes strange bedfellows

After a storm comes a calm

Age of miracles is past - The

Own't over till the fat lady sings - It

All good things come up to he who waits

All proficient things must come to an end

All is grist that comes to the mill

All publicity is good publicity

All roads lead to Rome

All that glisters is not gold

All that glitters is not gilt

All the world loves a lover

All things come to those that await

All things must pass

All work and no play makes Jack a irksome male child

All y'all need is love

All's fair in love and war

All's for the best in the all-time of all possible worlds

All's well that ends well

A miss is as good as a mile

An apple a mean solar day keeps the md away

An regular army marches on its stomach

An Englishman'southward home is his castle

An exception to every dominion - There'southward

Always more fish in the sea - There's

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

An ill wind that blows no one any expert - It's

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

Another day, another dollar

Any port in a storm

Appearances can exist deceptive

Apple a day keeps the dr. away - An

Apple never falls far from the tree - The

April is the cruellest month

April showers bring forth May flowers

Ground forces marches on its stomach - An

As thick equally thieves

As yous make your bed, so you must lie upon it

Every bit you sow so shall you reap

Ashes to ashes dust to dust

Ask a airheaded question and you'll become a lightheaded respond

Inquire no questions and hear no lies

Attack is the all-time form of defence

Bad money drives out good

Bad news travels fast

Bad penny always turns upwardly - A

Barking dog never bites - A

Be careful what yous wish for

Crush swords into ploughshares

Beauty is in the centre of the beholder

Beauty is only pare deep

Beggars should not be choosers

Backside every great man there'southward a not bad adult female

Best defense force is a good offence - The

All-time is the enemy of the good - The

Best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley - The

Best things in life are gratuitous - The

Better belatedly than never

Better safe than sorry

Amend the Devil you know than the Devil yous don't

Best to be on the safety side - Information technology's

Ameliorate to give than to receive - It'southward

Better to have loved and lost than never to take loved at all - It's

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - It'due south

Amend to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt

Better to travel hopefully than to arrive - It's

Betwixt ii stools one falls to the ground

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

Beware the Ides of March

Big fish eat little fish

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em

Bigger, the meliorate - The

Bigger they are, the harder they autumn - The

Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - A

Birds of a feather flock together

Blessed are the peacemakers

Blood is thicker than water

Blue are the hills that are far away

Bottom line is the bottom line - The

Boy is male parent to the man - The

Boys will be boys

Breadstuff always falls buttered side downward

Brevity is the soul of wit

Build a better mousetrap and the world will vanquish a path to your door

Business concern before pleasance

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion

Carpe diem (Pluck the twenty-four hour period; Seize the day)

Cat may wait at a king - A

Concatenation is but as strong as its weakest link - A

Change is as good as a rest - A

Charity begins at habitation

Charity covers a multitude of sins

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat

Cheats never prosper

Child is begetter to the human being - The

Children and fools tell the truth

Children should be seen and not heard

Christmas comes but in one case a year

Cleanliness is side by side to godliness

Clothes maketh the man

Cobbler always wears the worst shoes - The

Cold easily, warm centre

Comparisons are odious

Count your blessings

Course of true honey never did run smooth - The

Cowards may die many times earlier their decease

Crime doesn't pay

Curiosity killed the cat

Customer is ever right - The

Cut your coat to arrange your cloth

Darkest 60 minutes is just before the dawn - The

Dead men tell no tales

Devil is in the details - The

Devil looks afterwards his own - The

Devil makes piece of work for idle easily to do - The

Devil take the hindmost - The

Different strokes for different folks

Discretion is the better part of valour

Altitude lends enchantment to the view

Do equally I say, not as I exercise

Do every bit y'all would be washed by

Practise unto others as you would take them do to you

Dog is a man's best friend - A

Don't bite the paw that feeds you lot

Don't burn your bridges backside yous

Don't bandage your pearls before swine

Don't change horses in midstream

Don't count your chickens earlier they are hatched

Don't cross the bridge till y'all come to it

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

Don't get mad, get even

Don't keep a domestic dog and bark yourself

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep

Don't let the bastards grind you downwardly

Don't permit the true cat out of the pocketbook

Don't let the grass grow under your feet

Don't look a gift equus caballus in the rima oris

Don't meet troubles one-half-style

Don't mix business with pleasure

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Don't put the cart before the horse

Don't put new wine into old bottles

Don't rock the gunkhole

Don't shoot the messenger

Don't spoil the transport for a ha'porth of tar

Don't shut the stable door afterward the equus caballus has bolted

Don't sweat the small stuff

Don't throw pearls to swine

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs

Don't throw good money after bad

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Don't trust anyone over thirty

Don't try to run before you can walk

Don't try to walk before you can crawl

Don't upset the apple-cart

Don't wash your muddied linen in public

Dubiousness is the beginning not the end of wisdom

Drowning human volition clutch at a straw - A

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a homo healthy, wealthy and wise

Each to their ain

Early bird catches the worm - The

East is east, and west is due west

East, westward, home'southward best

Piece of cake come, easy get

Easy to exist wise later the result - It's

Eat, beverage and be merry, for tomorrow we die

Empty vessels make the most noise

End justifies the means - The

English language are a nation of shopkeepers - The

Englishman's home is his castle - An

Enough is every bit good as a banquet

Enough is enough

Fifty-fifty a worm will turn

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every domestic dog has its day

Every little helps

Every homo for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost

Every man has his price

Every flick tells a story

Every stick has two ends

Anybody wants to go to heaven merely nobody wants to die

Everything comes to him who waits

Exception which proves the dominion - The

Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - An

Failing to programme is planning to fail

Faint eye never won off-white lady

Off-white substitution is no robbery

Faith will movement mountains

Familiarity breeds contempt

Fatty is in the fire - The

Feed a cold and starve a fever

Female person of the species is more than deadly than the male - The

Fight fire with burn

Fight the good fight

Finders keepers, losers weepers

Fine words butter no parsnips

Burn is a good retainer but a bad principal

Offset come, beginning served

Outset impressions are the well-nigh lasting

First things first

Fish always stink from the head downwards

Fish and guests smell after 3 days

Flattery will get you nowhere

Fool and his money are soon parted - A

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

For everything at that place is a season

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the equus caballus was lost; and for desire of a horse the man was lost

Forewarned is forearmed

Forgive and forget

Fortune favours the brave

Friend in need is a friend indeed - A

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only 1 pace

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

Genius is one pct inspiration, ninety-nine per centum perspiration

Requite a man a fish and yous volition feed him for a mean solar day...

Give a dog a bad proper name and hang him

Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself

Give credit where credit is due

Give the Devil his due

Go the actress mile

God helps those who assist themselves

Goes without saying - It

Golden cardinal tin can open any door - A

Good beginning makes a skillful catastrophe - A

Good die young - The

Proficient fences make proficient neighbours

Good man is hard to find - A

Good talk saves the food

Skilful things come in small packages

Skilful things come to those that await

Grass is always greener on the other side of the debate - The

Great minds call up alike

Great oaks from little acorns abound

Half a loaf is better than no breadstuff

Manus that rocks the cradle rules the world - The

Handsome is as handsome does

Hard cases brand bad police force

Hard piece of work never did anyone whatever damage

Haste makes waste

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing

He who tin does, he who cannot, teaches

He who fights and runs away, may alive to fight another 24-hour interval

He who hesitates is lost

He who laughs final laughs longest

He who lives past the sword shall dice by the sword

He who pays the piper calls the tune

He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

Hear all, encounter all, say nowt, tak' all, go on all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt exercise information technology for thysen

Hell hath no fury similar a woman scorned

Hindsight is always xx-twenty

History repeats itself

Hold with the hare and run with the hounds - You tin't

Home is where the heart is

Honesty is the best policy

Honey catches more flies than vinegar

Honour among thieves - There's

Hope springs eternal

Horses for courses

House divided against itself cannot stand - A

House is non a habitation - A

Husband is e'er the last to know - The

If anything can become wrong, it volition

If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well

If at showtime you don't succeed try, endeavor and try again

If God had meant u.s.a. to fly he'd have given us wings

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers

If it ain't bankrupt, don't fix information technology

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade

If the cap fits, wear it

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must get to the mountain

If the shoe fits, vesture it

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

If you build information technology they volition come up

If you can't be good, be careful

If you can't crush em, join em

If y'all can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen

If yous prevarication down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

If you pay peanuts, y'all get monkeys

If you want a affair done well, do it yourself

Ignorance is bliss

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

In for a penny, in for a pound

In the kingdom of the blind the ane eyed homo is king

In the midst of life we are in death

Into every life a little pelting must fall

Information technology ain't over till the fat lady sings

It goes without saying

It never rains simply it pours

Information technology takes a thief to catch a thief

It takes all sorts to make a world

It takes one to know i

Information technology takes ii to tango

It's all grist to the factory

It's an sick wind that blows no one whatever good

Information technology's best to exist on the safe side

It'south better to give than to receive

It'due south better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

It'southward improve to light a candle than curse the darkness

Information technology's better to travel hopefully than to arrive

Information technology's easy to be wise after the event

Information technology's never too belatedly

Information technology's no employ crying over spilt milk

Information technology'southward no use shutting the stable door afterward the horse has bolted

It's the early bird that catches the worm

It's the empty can that makes the most noise

It'south the vocalizer not the song

Information technology'due south the squeaky bicycle that gets the grease

Jack of all trades, principal of none

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today

Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - A

Judge not, that ye be not judged

Keep your mentum upward

Go on your friends close and your enemies closer

Keep your powder dry out

Know which side your bread is buttered

Labourer is worthy of his hire - The

Laugh and the world laughs with yous, weep and yous weep alone

Laughter is the best medicine

Law is an ass - The

Least said, soonest mended

Leopard cannot alter its spots - A

Less is more

Let bygones exist bygones

Let non the sun go down on your wrath

Let sleeping dogs lie

Let the buyer beware

Let the expressionless bury the dead

Let the punishment fit the crime

Let well alone

Life begins at forty

Life is only a basin of cherries

Life is what y'all go far

Life'south not all beer and skittles

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

Like father, like son

Little knowledge is a dangerous thing - A

Little learning is a unsafe thing - A

Little of what yous fancy does you good - A

Picayune pitchers accept large ears

Footling strokes fell great oaks

Piffling things please picayune minds

Alive and acquire

Live and let live

Live for today for tomorrow never comes

Longest journey starts with a single step - The

Wait before yous leap

Dear of coin is the root of all evil

Love is bullheaded

Dearest makes the globe go round

Love thy neighbour as thyself

Dear will find a fashion

Make hay while the sunday shines

Make haste slowly

Make love non state of war

Human being does non live by bread alone

Man is known by his friends - A

Homo who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client - A

Manners maketh man

Many a good tune played on an old fiddle - At that place'due south

Many a little makes a mickle

Many a mickle makes a muckle

Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip - There'due south

Many a truthful give-and-take is spoken in jest

Many are called but few are chosen

Many hands make light work

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb

March winds and April showers bring along May flowers

Marriages are made in heaven

Marry in haste, repent at leisure

Might is right

Mighty oaks from little acorns abound

Misery loves company

Miss is equally good as a mile - A

Moderation in all things

Mon'southward child is fair of face

Money doesn't abound on copse

Coin is the root of all evil

Coin isn't everything

Money makes the world go round

Coin talks

More haste, less speed

More than the merrier - The

More things change, the more they stay the aforementioned - The

More means of killing a cat than choking it with cream - There are

Music has charms to soothe the brutal breast

Nature abhors a vacuum

Necessity is the mother of invention

Needs must when the devil drives

Ne'er cast a clout till May be out

Never give a sucker an even break

Never go to bed on an argument

Never judge a book by its embrace

Never let the dominicus go down on your anger

Never wait a souvenir horse in the mouth

Never put off until tomorrow what you lot can exercise today

Never rains but it pours - It

Never speak ill of the expressionless

Never tell tales out of schoolhouse

Never too late - Information technology's

New broom sweeps clean - A

Nine tailors make a man

No accounting for tastes - In that location'south

No fool similar an old fool - There'south

No human being can serve two masters

No human being is an island

No names, no pack-drill

No news is good news

No one can make yous experience junior without your consent

No pain, no proceeds

No place like dwelling - There's

No rest for the wicked

No smoke without fire - At that place's

No such thing as a costless dejeuner - There's

No such thing every bit bad publicity - There'southward

No time like the nowadays - There'southward

No use crying over spilt milk - It's

Nod's as skillful as a wink to a blind horse - A

None and so blind as those who will non see - There's

None then deaf as those who volition non hear - There's

Nothing new under the lord's day

Nothing is sure just decease and taxes

Cypher succeeds like success

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Oil and water don't mix

Old soldiers never die, they merely fade away.

Once a thief, always a thief

Once bitten, twice shy

One good turn deserves another

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives

One mitt washes the other

One man's meat is another man's poison

One might equally well be hanged for a sheep equally a lamb

One law for the rich and another law for the poor

I swallow does non make a summer

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding

Only fools and horses work

Opera ain't over till the fatty lady sings - The

Opportunity never knocks twice at whatever man's door

Opposites attract

Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - An

Out of sight, out of listen

Out of the frying pan into the burn down

Paddle your own canoe

Parsley seed goes ix times to the Devil

Patience is a virtue

Pearls of wisdom

Pen is mightier than sword - The

Penny saved is a penny earned - A

Penny wise and pound foolish

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Person is known by the company he keeps - A

Physician, heal thyself

Picture paints a thousand words - A

Place for everything and everything in its place - A

Poor workman always blames his tools - A

Possession is 9 points of the law

Power corrupts; absolute ability corrupts absolutely

Do makes perfect

Practice what you preach

Prevention is ameliorate than cure

Price of freedom is eternal vigilance - The

Pride comes earlier a fall

Procrastination is the thief of time

Problem shared is a problem halved - A

Proof of the pudding is in the eating - The

Prophet is non recognized in his own state - A

Put the cart before the horse

Put your all-time human foot frontwards

Put your shoulder to the wheel

Quid pro quo

Pelting earlier seven, fine earlier eleven

Ruby-red sky at dark shepherd'south delight; ruby-red heaven in the morning, shepherd's warning

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Revenge is sugariness

Ascent tide lifts all boats - A

Road to hell is paved with skilful intentions - The

Rob Peter to pay Paul

Rolling rock gathers no moss - A

Rome wasn't built in a 24-hour interval

Meet a pivot and pick it up, all the mean solar day you'll take expert luck; meet a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all mean solar day

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Seeing is believing

Seek and you shall detect

Set up a thief to take hold of a thief

Share and share alike

Shoemaker's son always goes barefoot - The

Shrouds have no pockets

Silence is golden

Slow but sure

Soft reply turneth away wrath - A

Softly, softly, catchee monkey

Spare the rod and spoil the child

Speak every bit yous observe

Speak softly and comport a big stick

Squeaky cycle gets the grease - The

Sticks and stones may break my bones, only words will never hurt me

Still waters run deep

Stitch in time saves nine - A

Strike while the iron is hot

Stupid is as stupid does

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan

Take intendance of the pennies and the pounds will have care of themselves

Takes a thief to catch a thief - Information technology

Takes all sorts to brand a world - It

Takes ane to know one - It

Talk is cheap

Talk of the Devil, and he is leap to appear

Tell the truth and shame the Devil

That which does not kill us makes united states of america stronger

The age of miracles is past

The apple tree never falls far from the tree

The all-time defense is a good offence

The best is the enemy of the skillful

The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley

The best things in life are gratis

The bigger, the better

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

The bottom line is the bottom line

The boy is begetter to the human

The bread always falls buttered side downward

The child is father to the man

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes

The form of true love never did run smooth

The client is ever correct

The darkest 60 minutes is just earlier the dawn

The Devil has all the best tunes

The Devil is in the details

The Devil looks afterwards his own

The Devil makes piece of work for idle hands to do

The Devil accept the hindmost

The early bird catches the worm

The empty tin can that makes the most noise - It'due south

The end justifies the ways

The English are a nation of shopkeepers

The exception which proves the rule

The fat is in the fire

The female of the species is more deadly than the male person

The skilful die young

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

The paw that rocks the cradle rules the globe

The husband is ever the terminal to know

The labourer is worthy of his hire

The police is an donkey

The leopard does non change his spots

The longest journey starts with a single footstep

The more the merrier

The more things modify, the more they stay the same

The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings

The pen is mightier than sword

The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

The shoemaker'due south son always goes barefoot

The vocaliser not the song - Information technology'southward

The squeaky bike that gets the grease - It'southward

The truth volition out

The wages of sin is expiry

The style to a man's heart is through his stomach

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with foam

In that location are none and so blind as those, that volition not see

At that place are ii sides to every question

In that location but for the grace of God, become I

In that location'due south a sucker born every minute

In that location'southward a time and a place for everything

There'southward an exception to every rule

There's always more fish in the ocean

There's honour amidst thieves

There's many a good tune played on an onetime fiddle

At that place's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

There's more than than one way to peel a cat

There'south no accounting for tastes

There'due south no fool like an old fool

There's no identify like dwelling house

There's no smoke without fire

There's no such matter as a complimentary lunch

At that place'southward no such thing as bad publicity

There's no time like the present

There's none and so bullheaded equally those who volition not come across

At that place's none so deaf as those who will non hear

There'due south nowt so queer as folk

There'south one born every minute

There's ane law for the rich and another law for the poor

There's safe in numbers

They that sow the wind, shall reap the cyclone

Matter of beauty is a joy forever - A

3rd time lucky

Those who do non learn from history are doomed to echo it

Those who live in drinking glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Those who sleep with dogs will ascent with fleas

Trouble shared is a problem halved - A

Thou shalt non impale

Time and tide await for no human being

Time flies

Time is a corking healer

Time is coin

Time volition tell

'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to take loved at all

To err is human; to forgive divine

To every affair at that place is a flavour

To the victor get the spoils

To travel hopefully is a better matter than to arrive

Tomorrow is some other 24-hour interval

Tomorrow never comes

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Truth is stranger than fiction

Truth will out

2 blacks don't make a white

Ii heads are better than 1

Two is company, but three's a crowd

Two sides to every question - In that location are

Two wrongs don't make a right

Variety is the spice of life

Virtue is its own reward

Volunteer is worth 20 pressed men - A

Wages of sin is decease - The

Walls have ears

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs

Waste product non want non

Watched pot never boils - A

Way to a man's middle is through his tum - The

What can't be cured must exist endured

What goes upwards must come down

What yous lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

When in Rome, do as the Romans do

When the cat'south abroad the mice will play

When the going gets tough, the tough become going

When the oak is before the ash, and then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, so you lot may expect a soak

What the center doesn't see, the center doesn't grieve over

Where there's a will there's a way

Where there'south muck there's brass

Wherever you wander, there'south no place like abode

While in that location'southward life in that location'due south hope

Whole is greater than the sum of the parts - The

Whom the Gods love die immature

Why go along a dog and bark yourself?

Woman is only a woman, merely a skillful cigar is a smoke - A

Woman's place is in the home - A

Woman's work is never done

Women and children starting time

Wonders volition never end

Give-and-take to the wise is plenty - A

Work expands and then as to fill the time bachelor

Worrying never did anyone whatsoever proficient

You are never too one-time to learn

Y'all are what you eat

You lot can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

You can choose your friends only yous can't cull your family

You can take too much of a skillful affair

Y'all can pb a horse to water, merely y'all can't get in drinkable

You can't have your cake and eat information technology too

You can't become blood out of a stone

Y'all tin't get blood out of a turnip

You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds

You tin't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Y'all tin can't make bricks without straw

Yous tin can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

You lot tin't take it with you [when yous die]

You tin't teach an onetime domestic dog new tricks

You can't judge a book by its encompass

Yous can't win them all

You grab more flies with love than with vinegar

Y'all pays your money and you takes your choice

You reap what you sow

You win some, you lose some

Youth is wasted on the young

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