200+ List Proverbs In English with pdf
Proverb is a short sentences which contains, wisdom, truth, moral, experience and many traditional views in it. that people often quote, that expresses a truth based on common sense.
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PROVERBS LIST
1). Good mind, Good find.
2). All is well that ends well.
3). A little learning is a dangerous thing.
4). An empty vessel is sounds much.
5). Truth fear no test.
6). Haste makes waste.
7). Let by gones be by gones.
8). Adversity flatters no man.
9). A drowning man catches a straw.
10). Cut your coat according to your cloth.
11). Better today than tomorrow.
12). Death keeps no calendar.
13). Every man is a architect of his fortune.
14). Honesty is a best policy.
15). Example is better than precept.
16). Penny wise, pound foolish.
17). One swallow does not make a
summer.
18). Many man many mind .
19). Prevention is better than cure.
20). Excess is everything is bad.
21). A figure among cyphers.
22). Blood is thicker than water.
23). Great cry little wool.
24). To kill two birds with one stone.
25). Rome was not build in a day.
26). One nail drives out another.
27). Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
28). Handsome is that handsome does.
29). Much ado about nothing.
30). An idle mind is the devil workshop.
31). Barking dogs seldom bite.
32). Time and tide wait for no man.
33). Let the past burry its dead.
34). Familiarity breeds contempt.
35). A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
36). Birds of the same father flock of together.
37). I'll gotten, I'll spend.
38). Beauty has wings.
39). Small wits great beast.
40). Where there is a will, there is a way.
41). While there is life, there is hope.
42). Tit for Tat.
43). Like father like son.
44). As you sow, so you reap.
45). Might is right.
46). To add insult to injury.
47). To kill the Gosse that lays the golden eggs.
48). Man proposes, God disposes.
49). Oil and truth is must come out.
50). Too many cooks spoil a broth.
51). There is a fly in the onitment.
52). A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
53). Do good and forget.
54). Make hay while the sun shines.
55). Look before you leap.
56). No vice like a avarice.
57). An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
58). Silence is good.
59). All that glitters is not gold.
60). Nearer the church farther from heaven.
61). A blind man is no judge of colors.
62). A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
63). A in need is a friend needed.
64). A nine days' wonder.
65). A Stitch in time saves nine.
66). A bad name is worse than bad deeds.
67). A close mouth catches no files.
68). A wolf in sheep's clothing.
69). A guilty conscience need no accuser.
70). All's fair in love and war.
71). Anger is blind.
72). Better an empty house, than a bad tenant.
73). Bullies are generally are cowards.
74). By trying the Greeks got into Troy.
75). Child is the father of man.
76). Christmas comes but once a year.
77). Coming events cast their shadows before.
78). A burnt child dreads the fire.
79). A drop in the ocean.
80). Dead man tell no tales.
81). Death keeps no calendar.
82). Diamond cuts diamond.
83). Do as you would be done by.
84). Do not keep a dog and bark yourself.
85). Dry bread at home is better than roast meat a bread.
86). Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
87). Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
88). Everyday is not Sunday.
89). Every man is the architect of his own fate.
90). Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
91). Fine feathers make fine birds.
92). Frailty, thy name is woman.
93). Furry and anger carry the mind away.
94). God's mill grinds slow but sure.
95). Great boast small roast.
96). Handsome is that handsome does.
97). To make a mountain of a molehill.
98). If you desire peace be prepared for war.
99). Ill got ill spent.
100). In excess nectar poisons.
101). In for a penny in for a pound.
102). It is folly to live in Rome and fight with the pope.
103). It is never too late to mend.
104). It is no use crying over spilt milk or it's too 105). late to shut the stable door when the horse is stolen.
105).It takes two to make a quarrel.
106). It's casting pearls before swine.
107). Jack of all trades master of none.
108). Judge a tree by its fruits, not by its leaves.
109). Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
110). Kill the snake as well as save the stick.
111), Kill two birds with one stone.
112). Look before you leap.
113). Lost time is never found again.
114). Mad people think others mad.
115). Many kiss the child for the nurse sake.
116). Men rule the world women rule man.
117). Modest dog miss much meat.
118). A wolf in sheep's clothing or mouth of money, heart of gall.
119). Necessity is the mother of invention.
120). Never a rose without a thorn.
121). Never put off till tomorrow what can you do today.
121). No man can serve two masters.
122). No pains no gains.
123). Nothing succeeds like success.
124). Nobody cries stinking fish.
125). One bed fish spoils the whole water.
126). One lie draws ten after it.
127). One man's meat is another man's poison.
128). Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
129). Out of the frying pan into the fire.
130). Pay well when are served well.
131). Prevention is better than cure.
132). Reason governs the wise man and cudgels the fool. or, wise use wisdom and fools use the might.
133). Religion is a stalking horse to shoot other fowl.
134). Richest have wings.
135). Rome was not built in a day
136). Save something against a rainy day.
137). Self praise is no recommendation.
138). Self preservation is nature's first law.
139). Sending all the six days in the week but going to church on Sundays.
140). Stolen apples taste sweet.
141). Strike while the iron is hot.
142). Sweep under your own mats.
143). Slow and steady wins the race.
144). Time is a great healer
145). Truth fears no examination.
146). The nearer the church the farther from heaven.
147). The face is index of the mind.
148). The cock is at his best on his own dung hill.
149). The fire proves gold, adversity brave man.
150). The last straw breaks the camel's back.
151). The key in use is always bright.
152). The stars govern men but God governs the stars.
153). There is a black sheep in every fold.
154). To build castles in the air.
155). To lead a cat and dogs life.
156). To plough the sands and sow the waves.
157). Virtue is its own reward.
158). Wash your dirty linens at home.
159). A rotten apple injuries its companions.
160). As the king so are the subjects.
161). Avarice is the root of all evils.
162). Beggars and borrowers could not be choosers.
163). Do evil and look for like.
164). Every Potter praises his pot.
165). Everything looks pale to a jaundiced eye.
166). Fortune favors the Brave.
167). Gather thistles and expect pickles.
168). Guilty conscience is always suspicious.
169). Half a loaf is better than no bread.
170). He that is warm thinks all are so.
171). He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
172). He who would so well must reap well.
173). High winds blow on high hills.
174). Living from hand to mouth.
175). Many a little makes a mickle.
176). Many men many minds.
177). Misfortune never come singly.
178). Money beggets Money.
179). One flower makes no garland.
180). One today is better than to tomorrow.
181). Poverty breeds strife.
182). Respect yourself and you will be respected.
183). Something is better than nothing.
184). Too much courtesy too much craft.
185). To rob Peter to pay Paul.
186). Vows made in storm are forgotten in claim.
189). You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
190). You can’t unscramble a scrambled egg.
191). The show must go on.
192). Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
193). You show me the man and I’ll show you the rule.
194). You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
195). While the cat's away, the mice will play.
196). When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
197). Too many cooks spoil the broth.
198). Two wrongs don't make a right.
199). Watch the Doughnot, and not the hole.
200). You can't always Get you want.
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