There are literally thousands of proverbs. These are simple sayings which express essential truths and they exist in every language.
Most have become clichés but they’re based on common sense and centuries of experience and they’re no less valid for their overuse.
Here are 101 proverbs that everyone should know.
These proverbs can be very useful when your aim is to emphasise a point. So, see how many of them you can work into your conversations today.
101 Proverbs:
- There’s no place like home
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Opportunity never knocks twice at any man’s door
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Possession is nine-tenths of the law
- A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse
- A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
- Adversity makes for strange bedfellows
- There’s honour among thieves
- There’s no fool like an old fool
- Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion
- Don’t get mad, get even
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
- East, west, home is best
- Every picture tells a story
- Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
- The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
- A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
- A change is as good as a rest
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating
- The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
- Faint heart never won fair lady
- Fortune favours the brave
- Give credit where credit’s due
- Children and fools tell the truth
- Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
- He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon
- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- Once a thief, always a thief
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty
- If anything can go wrong, it will
- If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
- Into every life a little rain must fall
- It never rains but it pours
- There are none so blind as those that will not see
- There’s an exception to every rule
- It’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive
- The early bird catches the worm
- Once bitten, twice shy
- It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
- Judge not, that ye be not judged
- Least said, soonest mended
- Let the buyer beware
- Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Many are called but few are chosen
- Marry in haste, repent at leisure
- Necessity is the mother of invention
Never give a sucker an even break
- No pain, no gain
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- Oil and water don’t mix
- Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
- One good turn deserves another
- One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
- Prevention is better than cure
- Procrastination is the thief of time
- Revenge is a dish best served cold
- Rome wasn’t built in a day
- Still waters run deep
- Stupid is as stupid does
- Talk is cheap
- The apple never falls far from the tree
- The customer’s always right
- The darkest hour is just before the dawn
- The Devil finds work for idle hands
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- Where there’s muck there’s brass
- You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family
- You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs
- You can’t win them all
- You’ll catch more flies with sugar than you will with vinegar
- You reap what you sow
- The Devil is in the details
- The end justifies the means
- The exception which proves the rule
- If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
- In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king
- The pen is mightier than sword
- The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- There’s no such thing as a free lunch
- There’s no such thing as bad publicity
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- There’s nowt so queer as folk
- There’s one born every minute
- There’s safety in numbers
- Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
- Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Time is money
- To the victor go the spoils
- Tomorrow never comes
- Truth is stranger than fiction
- There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle
- There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip
- You win some, you lose some
- Youth is wasted on the young
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