Proverbs / Wise Sayings

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.