proverbs

Proverbs are concise, well crafted and musical. They sum up a situation, an action or an idea in a single stroke, loaded with centuries of wisdom. They will be found mingled in everyday conversation, to illustrate or emphasize the message. The list below is far from exhaustive, but the most common English proverbs are included.



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Long absent, soon forgotten
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He who's afraid of leaves,
Must not come into a wood
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An apple, an egg, and a nut,
You may eat after a slut.
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Grasp all, lose all.
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Almost and hard by,
Save many a lie.
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If he is angry,
He must beplaised again.
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
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Strech your arm no farther than your sleeve.
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The perfection of art,
Is to conceal art.
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Assiduity makes all things easy.
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Things hardly attained,
Are long retained
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Bacchus has drowned more men,
Than Neptune.
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A good bargain is a pick-purse.
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Dry bargains,
Are seldom successful.
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More words than one,
Go to a bargain.
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Bear, and forbear.
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Early to go to bed, and early to rise,
Make a man wealthy and wise.
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Where bees are,
There will be honey.
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One bee makes no swarm.
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A proud mind and a beggar's purse,
Agree ill together.
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Set a beggar on horseback,
And he will ride a galop.
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Beggars must not be chusers.
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Sue a beggar,
And catch a louse.
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Better die a beggar,
Than live a beggar.
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Well begun,
Half ended.
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A good begining,
Makes a good ending.
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He that seeks other to beguile,
Is often overtaken in his wile.
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A fat belly,
Alean brain.
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Better belly burst,
Than good drink lost.
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A new besom sweps clean.
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Seldom comes a better.
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Fast bind, fast find
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A bird in the hand,
Is worth two in the bush.
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Birds of a feather,
Flock together.
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Every bird must hatch her own eggs.
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If you cannot bite,
Never shew your teeth.
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Don't bark, if you can't bite.
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Every bean has its black.
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Pepper is black, yet it has a good smack;
Snow is white, yet it lies in the dike.
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Better one eye than quite blind.
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A blithe heart makes a bloomy visage.
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He that goes a borrowing,
Goes a sorrowing.
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A book borrowed is sooner read then a book bought.
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Boys will be boys.
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An empty brain
Is the devil's shop
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Birth is much,
But breeding is more.
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A bad bush is better than the open field.
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Fools build houses,
And wise men buy them.
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No butter will stick to my bread.
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Better buy than borrow.
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See for love,
And buy for money.
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Every one must live by is calling.
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Car will kill a cat.
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When every one takes care of himself,
The care is taken for all.
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No carrion will kill a crow.
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Charity begins at home.
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Wo to the house where there is no chiding.
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Chidren and chickens must always be picking.
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Chidren, when little, make parents fools,
When great, mads.
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The nearer the chuch,
The further from God.
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Claw me, claw thee.
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A ragged colt may make a good horse.
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Confession of a fault, is half amended.
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He is a hill cook, who cannot lick his finger.
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A dry cough it, the trumpeter of death.
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He that won't be consll'd, can't be help'd.
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Far from court, far from care.
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Full of coutesy, full of craft.
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Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
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The couvetous man, like a dog in a wheel,
Roast meat for others.
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All covet,
All lose.
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There is craft in daubing.
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Shameless craving must have a shamful nay.
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The better day,
The better deed.
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Good debts becom bad, if not call'd in.
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Delay breeds danger.
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All is not lost that is delayed.
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First deserve, and then desire.
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Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
What is got over the devil's back,
Is spent under his belly.
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As good eat the devil,
As the broth he is boil'd in.
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Diamond cut diamond.
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In too much discourse, truth ist lost.
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
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Give a dog a bad name,
And hang him.
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Ever drunk, ever dry.
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Dumb folks get no land.
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Early to go to bed, and early to rise,
Make a man healty, wealthy, and wise.
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Early sow, early mow.
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It is very hard to shave an egg.
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All is well, that ends well.
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What can't be cured, must be endured.
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Soon enough,
Is well enough.
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There's never enough,
Where nought is left.
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Experience is the mistress of fools.
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He is a fool,That will not give an egg for an ox.
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The eye of the master,
Does more than bote his hands.
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A good face needs to band,
And a bad one deserves none.
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A faint heart never won a fair lady.
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Better out of the world, than out of the fashion.
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Better at the latter end of a feast,
Than the beginning of a fray.
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Fine feathers make fine birds.
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He who never climb'd, never fell.
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The fewer, the better chear.
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He that buys lands, buys many stones
He that buys flesh, buys many bones,
He that buys eggs, buys many shells,
But he that buys good ale,
Buys nothing else.
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Fire and water are good servants,
But bad masters.
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One must have been received seven years into a house,
Before he touches the fire.
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First come, first served.
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The cow that's first up gets,
The first of the dew.
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No fence against a flail.
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What I can't do by might,
I'll do it by flight.
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Every flow has its ebb.
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Fools make feast, and wise man eat them.
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Nought but a fol i will hin call,
That writes his name upon a wall.
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No man is a fool always,
Every one some times.
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Forbearance is no acquitance.
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Never praise a ford, til you get over.
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Forewarned, forearmed.
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Never seek that by foul means,
Which you may have by fair.
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Tho' the fox runs,
The chicken has wings.
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When the fox preaches, beware of your geeses.
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Be a friend to one
And an enemy to none.
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A friend in need, is a friend indeed.
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A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
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Better to commend the vertue of an enemy,
Than flatter the vice of a friend.
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When good cheer is laking,
Friends will be packing.
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In time of prosperity,
Friends are plenty.
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When the well is full, it will run.
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Light gains make a heavy purse.
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Save a thief from the gallows,
And he will cut your throat.
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When they give a cow,
Run and fetch a haller.
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Give a thing, and take a thing.
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Ill got, ill spent.
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Tell me will whom thou goest,
And i'll tell what thou doest.
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Got striket with the left hand,
And stroaket with the right.
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Man does what he can,
But God what he will.
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What is sauce for the goose,
Is sauce for the gander.
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While the grass grows,
The steer starves.
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Great bodies move slowly.
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Great boast, small roast.
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Fresh fish and new-come guests,
Smell when they are three days old.
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An unbidden guest must bring his stool with him.
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A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
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Friend in need is a friend indeed, It's my favourite, We must think to be a friends indeed
Cordialy

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