Proverbs
សុភាសិត ភាសាអង់គ្លេស
All of us use Proverbs both in our writings and in our
speech to emphasise the points that we make. The appropriate use of them
indicates our depth of knowledge and our command over English language.We have
to be careful in using them. Inappropriate uses of them will damage our
reputation.Here the complete list of proverbs has been given for your
reference. You are welcome to take note of them and use them appropriately.
If properly used, proverbs will add beauty and authenticity to our writings. If Pronoun is something that substitutes a noun, a proverb should evidently come in the place of a verb. But verbs are action words. And so a proverb must relate to the action you are taking or going to take. They tell you, like the traffic signals, to pause, ponder and proceed. To this category belong Aesop's fables. Their aim is, like that of a religion, to advise and help man to lead a harmonious life - free from friction, disappointment and distress, in the policy of understanding and adjustment. Treat others as you would others unto you. Can there be anything more proper, urgent and realistic than this?
Another feature of a proverb is that they are concise in construction, effective in presentation and above all easy to recollect and remember.
To this category of proverbs, axioms too belong. They are self evident and undisputed truths of life. So, with this aim - the little way we can, to make our life much better and less erroneous, we are bringing out this page. The special feature of this page is that it is presented with Key-Words.
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If properly used, proverbs will add beauty and authenticity to our writings. If Pronoun is something that substitutes a noun, a proverb should evidently come in the place of a verb. But verbs are action words. And so a proverb must relate to the action you are taking or going to take. They tell you, like the traffic signals, to pause, ponder and proceed. To this category belong Aesop's fables. Their aim is, like that of a religion, to advise and help man to lead a harmonious life - free from friction, disappointment and distress, in the policy of understanding and adjustment. Treat others as you would others unto you. Can there be anything more proper, urgent and realistic than this?
Another feature of a proverb is that they are concise in construction, effective in presentation and above all easy to recollect and remember.
To this category of proverbs, axioms too belong. They are self evident and undisputed truths of life. So, with this aim - the little way we can, to make our life much better and less erroneous, we are bringing out this page. The special feature of this page is that it is presented with Key-Words.
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A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with A.
Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make
yourself brief.
• A bad beginning makes a good ending.
• A bad excuse is better than none at all.
• A bad husband cannot be a good man.
• A beggar can never be bankrupt.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• A burnt child dreads fire.
• A cat may look at a king.
• A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
• A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
• A clear conscience is a coat of mail.
• A drowning man will catch at a straw.
• A drunkard’s purse is a bottle.
• A fault confessed is half redressed.
• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• A fool may give a wise man counsel.
• A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it.
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• A friend is easier lost than found.
• A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
• A full purse makes the mouth to speak.
• A good dog deserves a good bone.
• A good husband makes a good wife.
• A good name is better than riches.
• A good name is sooner lost than won.
• A great talker is a great liar.
• A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• A heavy purse makes a light heart.
• A man in debt is caught in a net.
• A man is as old as he feels.
• A man’s house is his castle.
• A miss is as good as a mile.
• A penny for your thoughts.
• A penny saved is a penny gained.
• A pound of care won’t pay an ounce of debt.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• A rose between two thorns.
• A short cut is often a wrong cut.
• A stitch in time saves nine.
• A thing begun is half done.
• A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
• A wonder lasts nine days.
• A word to the wise is enough.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• Action speaks louder than words.
• Advice when most needed is least heeded.
• After a storm comes calm.
• All covet, all lose.
• All that glitters is not gold.
• All work and no play make a Jack a dull boy.
• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
• All’s fair in love and war.
• All’s fish that comes to his net.
• All’s well that ends well.
• Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• An army marches on its stomach.
• An empty bag will not stand upright.
• An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
• An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
• An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
• Any port in a storm is shaken a little.
• Appetite comes with eating.
• As a man lives so shall he die.
• As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
• As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
• As you sow, so you shall reap.
• Ask much to get little.
• Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
• A bad beginning makes a good ending.
• A bad excuse is better than none at all.
• A bad husband cannot be a good man.
• A beggar can never be bankrupt.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• A burnt child dreads fire.
• A cat may look at a king.
• A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
• A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
• A clear conscience is a coat of mail.
• A drowning man will catch at a straw.
• A drunkard’s purse is a bottle.
• A fault confessed is half redressed.
• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• A fool may give a wise man counsel.
• A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it.
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• A friend is easier lost than found.
• A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
• A full purse makes the mouth to speak.
• A good dog deserves a good bone.
• A good husband makes a good wife.
• A good name is better than riches.
• A good name is sooner lost than won.
• A great talker is a great liar.
• A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• A heavy purse makes a light heart.
• A man in debt is caught in a net.
• A man is as old as he feels.
• A man’s house is his castle.
• A miss is as good as a mile.
• A penny for your thoughts.
• A penny saved is a penny gained.
• A pound of care won’t pay an ounce of debt.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• A rose between two thorns.
• A short cut is often a wrong cut.
• A stitch in time saves nine.
• A thing begun is half done.
• A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
• A wonder lasts nine days.
• A word to the wise is enough.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• Action speaks louder than words.
• Advice when most needed is least heeded.
• After a storm comes calm.
• All covet, all lose.
• All that glitters is not gold.
• All work and no play make a Jack a dull boy.
• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
• All’s fair in love and war.
• All’s fish that comes to his net.
• All’s well that ends well.
• Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• An army marches on its stomach.
• An empty bag will not stand upright.
• An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
• An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
• An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
• Any port in a storm is shaken a little.
• Appetite comes with eating.
• As a man lives so shall he die.
• As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
• As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
• As you sow, so you shall reap.
• Ask much to get little.
• Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with B.
Use a proverb from this List wisely in your writings and speech and make
yourself brief.
• Back again, like a bad penny.
• Barking dogs seldom bite.
• Be just before you are generous.
• Be not the first to quarrel, nor the last to make it up.
• Be sure before you marry, of a house wherein to tarry.
• Beggars must not be choosers.
• Better be alone than in ill company.
• Better late than never.
• Better be happy than wise.
• Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• Books and friends should be few and good.
• Borrowing thrives but once.
• Boys will be boys.
• Brevity is the soul of wit.
• Bullies are generally cowards.
• By other’s faults wise men correct their own.
• By timely mending save much spending.
• Back again, like a bad penny.
• Barking dogs seldom bite.
• Be just before you are generous.
• Be not the first to quarrel, nor the last to make it up.
• Be sure before you marry, of a house wherein to tarry.
• Beggars must not be choosers.
• Better be alone than in ill company.
• Better late than never.
• Better be happy than wise.
• Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• Books and friends should be few and good.
• Borrowing thrives but once.
• Boys will be boys.
• Brevity is the soul of wit.
• Bullies are generally cowards.
• By other’s faults wise men correct their own.
• By timely mending save much spending.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with C. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Call a spade a spade.
• Care killed the cat.
• Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
• Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
• Catch who catch can.
• Charity begins at home but should not end there.
• Cheapest is dearest.
• Children are what you make them.
• Christmas comes but once a year.
• Comparisons are odious.
• Courtesy costs nothing.
• Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost.
• Cut you coat according to your cloth.
A Proverb
This is The Complete List of Proverbs beginning with D.
Use a proverb from this list wisely in your writings and speech and make
yourself brief.If this list is properly used, it will add beauty and
authenticity to our writings.
• Dead men tell no tales.
• Delays are dangerous.
• Devil takes the hindmost.
• Diligence is a great teacher.
• Discretion is the better part of valor.
• Distance lends enchantment to the view.
• Do as I say, not as I do.
• Do not cut off you nose to spite your face.
• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
• Do not spur a willing horse.
• Do not tell tales out of school.
• Dead men tell no tales.
• Delays are dangerous.
• Devil takes the hindmost.
• Diligence is a great teacher.
• Discretion is the better part of valor.
• Distance lends enchantment to the view.
• Do as I say, not as I do.
• Do not cut off you nose to spite your face.
• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
• Do not spur a willing horse.
• Do not tell tales out of school.
The Complete List of Proverbs
This is The Complete List of Proverbs beginning with E. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Easier said than done.
Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
Employment brings enjoyment.
Empty vessels make the most noise.
Enough is as good as a feast (to one that’s not a beast).
Enough is better than too much.
Every ass loves to hear itself bray.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every dog has his day.
Every little helps.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Every man must carry his own cross.
Every why has a wherefore.
Everyone can find fault, few can do better.
Everyone knows best where the shoe pinches.
Everyone thinks his own burden the heaviest.
Everything comes to those who wait.
Example is better than precept.
Exchange is no robbery.
Experience teaches.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Extremes are dangerous.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with F. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
Facts are stubborn things.
Failure teaches success.
Faint heart never won a fair lady.
Fall out with a friend for a trifle.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Fancy kills and fancy cures.
Fine feathers made before forks.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
First come first served.
Flattery brings friends, truth enemies.
Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar.
Follow the river and you will find the sea.
Fools build houses and wise men buy them.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune favors fools.
Fools build houses and wise men buy them.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune favors fools.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with G. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself.
Give and spend and God will send.
Give everyone his due.
Give him an inch and he’ll take and tell.
Give the devil his due.
God helps those who help themselves.
God never shuts one door but he opens another.
Good beginning makes good endings.
Good to begin well, better to end well.
Good wine needs no bush.
Grasp all, lose all.
Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude the worst of vices.
Great haste makes great waste.
Great minds think alike.
Great profits, great risk.
Great talkers are little doers.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with H. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Habit is second nature.
• Hail fellow, well met.
• Half a loaf is better than no bread.
• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
• He gives twice that gives in a trice.
• He is idle that might be better employed.
• He is richest that has fewest wants.
• He knows most who speaks least.
• He knows which way the wind blows.
• He laughs best that laughs last.
• He runs with the hounds and hunts with the hare, himself must either hold or drive.
• He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
• He that doth lend doth lose his friend.
• He that goes borrowing goes sorrowing.
• He who knows little soon repents it.
• He who knows nothing doubts noting.
• He that loves glass without G takes away L, and that is he.
• He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
• He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have any.
• He that will thrive must rise at five; He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
• He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
• He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
• He’s no man who cannot say “No",
• His bark is worse than his bite.
• His heart is in his boots.
• Home is home, though it never be so homely.
• Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• Hope is the last thing that we lose.
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
• Hunger is the best sauce.
The List of Proverbs
This is The List of Proverbs BEGINNING WITH I. Use a proverb from The List of Proverbs wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice, snare on me.
• If fools went not to market bad wares would not be sold.
• If the cap fits, wear it.
• If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
• If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
• If you cannot make a man thing as you do, make him do as you think.
• If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
• Ill got, ill spent.
• In for a penny, in for a pound.
• It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.
• It is a long lane that has not turning.
• It is always time to do good.
• It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
• It is easier to get money than to keep it.
• It is easier to pull down than to build.
• It is folly to live in Rome, and strive with the Pope.
• It is never too late to mend.
• It is no use crying over spilt milk.
• It never rains but it pours.
• It takes two to make a quarrel.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with J. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Jack of all trades and master of none
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with K. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
• Kill two birds with one stone.
• Kind words are worth much and cost little.
• Kindle not a fire that you cannot put out.
• Kindness begets kindness.
• Kissing goes by favor.
• Knowledge is power.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with L. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Lazy people take the most pains.
• Learning makes the wise wiser, but the fool more foolish.
• Least said, soonest mended.
• Lend only what you can afford to lose.
• Let bygones by bygones.
• Let sleeping dogs lie.
• Let the cobbler stick to his last.
• Liars should have good memories.
• Like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter.
• Little boats must keep the shore, larger boats may venture more.
• Little strokes fall great oaks.
• Live and let live.
• Live not to eat, but eat to live.
• Loans and debts make worries and frets.
• Look before you leap.
• Lost time is never found.
• Love is blind.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with M. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards complain.
• Make hay while the sun shines.
• Make short the miles, with talk and smiles.
• Man proposes, god disposes.
• Manners make a man.
• Many find fault without an end, any yet do nothing at all to mend.
• Many hands make light work.
• Many straws may bind and elephant.
• Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
• Masters two, will not do.
• Men are as old as they feel; women as old as they look.
• Men make houses, women make homes.
• Misfortunes never (seldom) come singly.
• Money makes the mare to go.
• More haste, less speed.
• Much cry, little wool. (Great cry, little wool).
• Murder will out.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with N. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Nature abhors a vacuum.
• Nearest is dearest.
• Necessity hath no law.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• Needles and pins, when a man is married then trouble begins.
• Neither wise men nor fools can work without tools.
• Never a rose without thorns.
• Never cross the bridge until you have come to it.
• Never damn the bridge that you have crossed.
• Never do things by halves.
• Never hit a man when he’s down.
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
• Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
• Never say die! Up man, and try.
• Never spoil the ship for a ha’p’orth of tar.
• Never too old to learn; never too late to turn.
• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
• New brooms sweep clean.
• No gains without pains.
• No living man, all things.
• No man is indispensable.
• No man is without enemies.
• No news is good news.
• No-one knows where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
• None as blind as those who will not see.
• None as deaf as those who will no hear.
• Nothing succeeds like success.
• Noting venture, nothing have-win.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with O. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Oaks fall when reeds stand.
• Of one ill come many.
• Of two evils choose the less.
• Old age is a heavy burden.
• Old birds are not caught with chaff.
• Old wounds soon bleed.
• On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
• One can live on a little, but not on nothing.
• One cannot die twice.
• One fool makes many.
• One good turn deserves another.
• One may lead a horse to water, but twenty cannot make him drink.
• One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
• One may sooner fall than rise.
• One swallow does not make a summer.
• One today is worth two tomorrows.
• Other fish to fry.
• Out of debt, out of danger.
• Out of sight, out of mind.
• Out of the frying pan into the fire.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with P.
Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make
yourself brief.
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
• Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.
• Plaster thick, some will stick.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
• Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.
• Plaster thick, some will stick.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Practice thrift or else you’ll drift.
• Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.
• Presents keep friendships warm.
• Prevention is better than cure.
• Pride and poverty are ill, yet often dwell together.
• Pride must (or will) have a fall.
• Pride goes before a fall.
• Procrastination is a thief of time.
• Punctuality is the soul of business.
• Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
• Put not your trust in money; put you money in trust.
• Put your own shoulder to the wheel.
• Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.
• Presents keep friendships warm.
• Prevention is better than cure.
• Pride and poverty are ill, yet often dwell together.
• Pride must (or will) have a fall.
• Pride goes before a fall.
• Procrastination is a thief of time.
• Punctuality is the soul of business.
• Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
• Put not your trust in money; put you money in trust.
• Put your own shoulder to the wheel.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with Q. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Quick believers need broad shoulder.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with R. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Reckless youth makes rueful age.
• Rome was not built in a day.
• Rumour is a great traveler.
A List of
Proverbs
This is A List of
Proverbs beginning with S. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings
and speech and make yourself brief.
• Save me from my friends.
• Saying is one thing, doing another.
• Scratch my back and I will scratch yours.
• Second thoughts are best.
• See a pin and let it lie, you’re sure to want before you die.
• Seeing is believing.
• Set a thief to catch a thief.
• Set not your loaf in till the oven is hot.
• She’s the cat’s mother.
• Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief.
• Silence gives consent.
• Sink or swim.
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
• Skill is stronger than strength.
• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.
• Slow and steady wins the race.
• Slow and sure.
• Small beginnings make great endings.
• Soft words break no bones.
• Soft words win hard hearts.
• Some men are wise and some are otherwise.
• Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
• Soon hot soon cold.
• Sooner said than done.
• Spare the rod and spoil the child.
• Speak little but speak the truth.
• Speak well of your friends, and of your enemy nothing.
• Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim.
• Speech is silver, silence is golden.
• Spilt salt is never all gathered.
• Still water runs deep.
• Strike while the iron’s hot.
• Study the past if you would divine the future.
• Suspicion is the bane of friendship.
• Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef.
Complete List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with T. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
• Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.
• That which is evil is soon learnt.
• That which proves too much proves nothing.
• The best of friends must part.
• The biter bit.
• The cat is fain the fish to eat, but hath no will to wet her feet.
• The child is father of the man.
• The company makes the feast.
• The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
• The devil lurks behind the cross.
• The early bird catches the worm.
• The end justifies the means.
• The exception proves the rule.
• The fountain is clearest at its source.
• The game is not worth the candle.
• The goat must browse where she is tied.
• The habit does not make the monk.
• The heart sees further than the head.
• The last straw breaks the camel’s back.
• The less people think, the more they talk.
• The love of a woman and a bottle of wine are sweet for a season but last for a time.
• The master’s eye fattens the horse.
• The morning sun never lasts the day.
• The nearer the church the further from God.
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
• The public pays with ingratitude.
• The receiver is as bad as the thief.
• The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you.
• The strength of a chain is its weakest link.
• The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
• The unexpected always happens.
• The wise make jests and the fool repeats them.
• The wish is father to the thought.
• The world is a staircase; some are going up, some are coming down.
• There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
• There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
• There are more ways to kill a dog than by hanging him.
• There are two sides to every question.
• There could be no great ones if there were no little.
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There is a … But in everything.
• There is no true love without jealousy.
• There is no venom like that of the tongue.
• There is a salve for every sore.
• There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
• There’s safety in numbers.
• They who only seek for faults find nothing else.
• Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.
• Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
• Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• Time cures more than the doctor.
• Time flies.
• Time is money.
• Time is the best counselor.
• Tit for tat is fair play
• To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.
• To err is human; to forgive divine.
• To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
• To kill two birds with one stone.
• To know the disease is half the cure.
• To look for a needle in a haystack.
• To make one hole to stop another.
• To make two bites at one cherry.
• To put the cart before the horse.
• To scare a bird is not the best way to catch it.
• To stir up a hornet’s nest.
• To take the chestnut out of the fire with the cat’s paw.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth.
• Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
• Train a tree when it is young.
• Tread on a worm and it will turn.
• True love never grows old.
• Trust but not too much.
• Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.
• Turn over a new leaf.
• Two eyes see more than one.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Two is company, three is none.
• Two is company, three is a crowd.
• Two wrongs do not make a right.
• Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
• There is no true love without jealousy.
• There is no venom like that of the tongue.
• There is a salve for every sore.
• There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
• There’s safety in numbers.
• They who only seek for faults find nothing else.
• Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.
• Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
• Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• Time cures more than the doctor.
• Time flies.
• Time is money.
• Time is the best counselor.
• Tit for tat is fair play
• To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.
• To err is human; to forgive divine.
• To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
• To kill two birds with one stone.
• To know the disease is half the cure.
• To look for a needle in a haystack.
• To make one hole to stop another.
• To make two bites at one cherry.
• To put the cart before the horse.
• To scare a bird is not the best way to catch it.
• To stir up a hornet’s nest.
• To take the chestnut out of the fire with the cat’s paw.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth.
• Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
• Train a tree when it is young.
• Tread on a worm and it will turn.
• True love never grows old.
• Trust but not too much.
• Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.
• Turn over a new leaf.
• Two eyes see more than one.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Two is company, three is none.
• Two is company, three is a crowd.
• Two wrongs do not make a right.
• Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with U. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Undertake no more than you can perform.
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
• Union is strength.
The Complete List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with V.
Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make
yourself brief.
• Vice is its own punishment, virtue its own reward.
• Vice is its own punishment, virtue its own reward.
A List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with W. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Walls have ears.
• Wash your dirty linen at home.
• Waste makes want.
• Waste no, want not.
• We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
• We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors.
• Wedlock is like a place besieged: those within wish to get out, those without wish to get in.
• Well begun is half done?
• What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
• What can’t be cured must be endured.
• What cost nothing is worth nothing.
• What’s done can’t be undone.
• What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tomb.
• What is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
• What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
• What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
• What man has done man can do.
• Whatever you are, be a man.
• What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
• What the eyes don’t see the heart does not grieve for.
• What the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.
• When a man is going down the hill everyone will give him a push.
• When in Rome do as the Romans do.
• When money’s taken freedom’s forsaken.
• When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
• When rogues fall out honest men come into their own.
• When the cat is away the mice will play.
• When the wine is in, the wit is out.
• When thy neighbor’s house doth burn, be careful of thine own.
• When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps.
• When wits meet sparks fly out.
• Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
• Where there is nothing to lose there is nothing to fear.
• Where there is smoke there is fire.
• Where there’s a will there’s a way.
• While there is life there is hope.
• While the grass grows the horse starves.
• Who chatters to you will chatter of you.
• Who judges others condemns himself.
• Who knows most says least.
• Who spends more than he should, shall not have to spend when he would.
• Who will not hear must be made to feel?.
• Who will bell the cat?
• Whom the gods love dies young.
• Willful waste makes woeful want .
• Wine and wenches empty men’s purses.
• Words are wind, but blows are unkind.
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