Proverbs or wise sayings are defined as statements stating a general truth. These are concrete and traditional sayings that express perceived truth. Some commonly used proverbs are given below:
Commonly used Proverbs / Wise Sayings
- An idle brain is a devil’s work shop.
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- A mountain in labor and a mouse in the result.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- A blind man is no judge of colors.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- A burnt child dreads the fire.
- A golden key opens all the locks.
- As many mouths,so many opinions.
- A blind man’s wife needs no paint.
- As long as there is life,there is hope.
- As you sow,so shall you reap.
- A lie has no legs to stand upon.
- A guilty mind is always suspicious.
- A drowning man catches at a straw.
- A cheap buyer takes bad meat.
- An uninvited guest is not welcomed
- A bad work man quarrels with his tools.
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- Blood is thicker than water.
- Beauty needs no paint.
- Blind from the eyes and called Mr.Bright.
- Better alone than in bad company.
- Barking dogs seldom bite.
- Beauty is no inheritance.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
- Between two stools you fall to the ground.
- Beauty is short lived.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Charity begins at home.
- Do at Rome as The Romans do.
- Do good; have good.
- Death keeps no calendar.
- Death with friends is a festival.
- Distant drums sound sweet.
- Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Every dog has his day.
- Evil pursuits bring evil repute.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Easy come easy go.
- Every thing looks pale to the jaundiced eye.
- Every man doeth his business best.
- Empty vessels make much noise.
- Every potter praises his own pot.
- Every cock fights best in his own dung hill.
- For a born fool there is no school.
- Face is the index of mind.
- First deserve then desire.
- Fair is not fair but that which pleasant.
- Forbidden fruits are sweet.
- Gone is the goose that laid golden eggs.
- Greed is a curse.Great boast little roast.
- God helps those who help themselves.
- Grapes are sour.
- Hope sustains the world.
- Haste makes waste.
- He who digs a pit for others himself falls into it.
- Hunger is the best sauce.
- Health is wealth.
- Handsome is that hand does.
- Honesty is the best policy.
- Hours of pleasure are short.
- It is no use crying over spilt milk.
- It takes two to make a quarrel.
- It is hard to live in Rome and fight with the pope.
- If wishes were horses,beggars would not die.
- If you play with a fool at home,he will play with you in the market.
- It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
- It is hard winter when dogs eat dogs.
- Jack of all trades but master of none.
- Kindness never goes unrewarded.
- Let not the left hand know,what the right hand gives.
- Love and a red rose can not be hidden.
- Little drops make an ocean.
- Let the sleeping dogs lie.
- Let us see which way the wind blows.
- lost reputation seldom regained.
- Let it gone be by gone.
- Life is not a bed of roses.
- Look before you leap.
- Light reflects life.
- Money makes the mare go.
- Might is right.
- Man proposes God disposes.
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Money is money and interest besides.
- Money attracts money.
- Mind your own business.
- Nip the evil in the bud.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- New lords new laws.
- Nearer the church farther from
- God helps those who help themselves.
- No pains no gains.
- Practice makes a man perfect.
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Penny wise pound foolish.
- Pride hath a fall.
- Positive men are often in error.
- Rod is the logic of the fool.
- Rome was not built in a day.
- Riches have wings.
- Some thing is better than nothing.
- Some thing is wrong in the bottom.
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- Self evident needs no proof.
- Speech is silver but silence is gold.
- Silent water runs deep.
- Singing all the days in the week and going to church on Sunday.
- Out of sight,out of mind.
- One vacancy hundred candidates.
- Out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Old birds are not caught with chaff.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- The voice of the people is the voice of God.
- Time and tide waits for none.
- The innocent get punished with the guilty.
- Two of the trade seldom agree.
- Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
- Truth is bitter.
- Truth is ever green.
- Take what comes your way,pursue not what goes the other way.
- Tit for tat.
- To err is human;to forgive divine.
- Union is strength.
- Virtue is its own reward.
- Would have the fruit not a basket.
- Where there is a will there is a way
- Wolves may lose their teeth but not their nature.
- Who will bell the cat?
- When the old cock crows,the young cock follows.
- What can not be cured must be endured.
- When the sky falls we shall catch larks.
- Walls have ears.
- Youth is a blunder.
- Do not cast pearls before swine.