Most Popular Proverbs (Set 3)

1. A good mind possesses a kingdom. (Material assets are fleeting, but intellectual assets will basically stay with you for the rest of your life. Therefore, intellectual assets are much more worth than material ones.)
2. A hedge between keeps friends green. (It is best to have some sort of wall towards your neighbours.)
3. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (A verbal contract is completely useless.)
4. All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. (Everyone wants success but many lack the self-discipline to become successful.)
5. All good roads lead to Rome.
6. All for one and one for all.
7. A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. (Someone who wants to be mean will find things to be mean about no matter what.)
8. As the old cock crows, so crows the young. (Children will become like older generations.)
9. All cats are gray at night
10. Enough is as good as a feast.
11. Everything happens for a reason
12. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
13. Don't shoot the messenger
14. Don't sweat the small stuff
15. Don't take any wooden nickels
16. Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
17. Don't drop the soap.
18. Eat, drink and be merry.
19. Eaten bread is soon forgotten
20. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
21. Even Homer nods
22. Even Jove nods
23. Every day is a school day
24. Every dog has its day
25. Every Jack has his Jill
26. Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
27. Faith will move mountains
28. Familiarity breeds contempt
29. Feed a cold, starve a fever
30. Finders keepers
31. Fine feathers make fine birds
32. Fine words butter no parsnips
33. First things first
34. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
35. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
36. Forewarned is forearmed. Forewarned, forearmed.
37. Forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp
38. Garbage in, garbage out
39. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
40. Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
41. God is in the detail
42. God works in mysterious ways
43. Handsome is as handsome does. Handsome is that handsome does.
44. Haters gonna hate.
45. He who laughs last laughs best. He who laughs last laughs hardest.
46. He who smelt it dealt it.
47. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
48. Here today, gone tomorrow
49. Hic Rhodus, hic salta
50. Hindsight is 20/20
51. History repeats itself
52. Home is where the heart is
53. Home is where you hang your hat
54. Hunt where the ducks are
55. Idle hands are the devil's playthings. Idle hands are the Devil's playthings
56. Idle hands are the devil's tools. Idle hands are the Devil's tools
57. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
58. If at first you don't succeed
59. If it ain't broke, don't fix it
60. If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle
61. If pigs had wings they would fly
62. If there's grass on the field, play ball. If there's grass on the pitch, play ball
63. If you can't beat them, join them.
64. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
65. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
66. If you lie with dogs you will get fleas
67. If you love someone, set them free
68. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
69. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything
70. if you want a thing done well, do it yourself
71. Ignorance is bliss
72. In for a dime, in for a dollar
73. In for a penny, in for a pound
74. In for an inch, in for a mile
75. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
76. In unity there is strength
77. In vino veritas
78. It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
79. It ain't the meat, it's the motion
80. It ain't the whistle that pulls the train
81. It is a wise child that knows his own father
82. It is all fun and games until someone loses an eye
83. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god
84. It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
85. It is not the whistle that pulls the train
86. It isn't the whistle that pulls the train
87. It never rains but it pours
88. It pays to advertise
89. It takes all kinds to make a world
90. It takes two to tango
91. It's a long road that has no turning
92. It's an ill wind
93. It's an ill wind that blows no good
94. It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
95. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
96. It's better to ask forgiveness than permission
97. It's not the meat, it's the motion
98. It's not the whistle that pulls the train
99. It's not what you know but who you know
100. It's the thought that counts
101. Let a thousand flowers bloom
102. Lex dubia non obligat
103. Life is like a box of chocolates
104. Life is not all beer and skittles
105. Life's a bitch and then you die
106. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
107. Like father, like son
108. Little pitchers have big ears
109. Little pitchers have long ears
110. Live and let live
111. Live by the sword, die by the sword
112. Long ways, long lies
113. Loose lips sink ships
114. Make hay while the sun shines
115. Make it do or do without
116. Man is a wolf to man
117. Man plans and god laughs
118. Man proposes, god disposes
119. Many hands make light work
120. Marry in haste, repent at leisure
121. Measure twice and cut once
122. Measure twice, cut once
123. Mess with the bull and you get the horns
124. Might is right
125. Might makes right
126. Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
127. Mills of the gods grind slowly
128. Mind over matter
129. Misery loves company
130. Misfortunes never come singly
131. Mocking is catching
132. More haste, less speed
133. Murder will out
134. My enemy's enemy is my friend
135. Nearly never bulled a cow
136. Ne'er cast a clout til may be out
137. Never look a gift horse in the mouth
138. Nice guys finish last
139. No good deed ever goes unpunished
140. No good deed goes unpunished
141. No guts, no glory
142. No man is an island
143. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
144. No smoke without fire
145. No time like the present
146. Nothing succeeds like success
147. Nothing ventured, nothing gained
148. Old habits die hard
149. On the internet nobody knows you're a dog
150. Once bitten, twice shy
151. Once you go black, you never go back
152. One can run but one can't hide
153. One good turn deserves another
154. One man's meat is another man's poison
155. One may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
156. One swallow does not a spring make
157. One swallow does not a summer make
158. One swallow does not make a spring
159. One swallow does not make a summer
160. One swallow doesn't a spring make
161. One swallow doesn't a summer make
162. One swallow doesn't make a spring
163. One swallow doesn't make a summer
164. One who hesitates is lost
165. One's got to do what one's got to do
166. Only fools and horses work
167. Only nixon could go to china
168. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
169. Other days, other ways
170. Out of the mouths of babes
171. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
172. Patience is a virtue
173. Plus ça change
174. Procrastination is the thief of time
175. Proverbs come in pairs
176. Proverbs go in pairs
177. Proverbs hunt in pairs
178. Proverbs often come in pairs
179. Proverbs run in pairs
180. Possession is nine points of the law. Possession is nine-tenths of the law
181. Pride comes before a fall. Pride cometh before a fall. Pride goes before a fall. Pride goeth before a fall. Pride wenteth before a fall.
182. Real men don't eat quiche
183. Revenge is a dish best served cold
184. Rubbish in, rubbish out
185. Rules are made to be broken
186. Sauce for the goose
187. Short reckonings make long friends
188. Silence is golden
189. Six of one, half a dozen of the other
190. Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you
191. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
192. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
193. Spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
194. Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone
195. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
196. Tell me who walks with you, and I'll tell you who you are.
197. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
198. Take the cash and let the credit go
199. Talk is cheap
200. Talk softly and carry a big stick
201. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
202. That's the way life is
203. That's the way the ball bounces
204. That's the way the cookie crumbles
205. That's the way the mop flops
206. The bad penny always comes back. The bad penny always turns up
207. The bigger they are, the harder they fall
208. The cobbler's children are the worst shod
209. The course of true love never did run smooth
210. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
211. The door swings both ways
212. The fish rots from the head
213. The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get. The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take. The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
214. The lord works in mysterious ways.
215. The map is not the territory
216. The more things change, the more they stay the same
217. The only thing one should fear is fear itself
218. The proof is in the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in the eating
219. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
220. The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get. The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take. The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
221. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
222. The wheel turns
223. The whistle does not pull the train.
224. The world is one's lobster.
225. Them's the breaks
226. There are many ways to skin a cat
227. There are none so blind as those who will not see
228. There are plenty more fish in the sea. There are plenty of fish in the sea
229. There are two sides to every question
230. There is nothing new under the sun
231. There is reason in the roasting of eggs
232. There may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
233. There's a rotten apple in every barrel
234. There's always a bigger fish
235. There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
236. There's more than one way to skin a cat
237. There's no accounting for taste
238. There's no fool like an old fool
239. There's no place like home
240. There's no such thing as a free lunch
241. There's no time like the present
242. They're only after one thing
243. Third time pays for all
244. Third time's a charm. Third time's the charm
245. This too shall pass. This too shall pass away
246. Throw dirt enough, and some will stick
247. Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
248. Treat them mean, keep them keen. Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen
249. Truth will out
250. Tune in, turn on, drop out
251. Turnabout is fair play
252. Two can play that game
253. Use it or lose it
254. Walk softly and carry a big stick
255. When it rains, it pours
256. Where there's muck there's brass
257. Wherever you go, there you are
258. Who pays the piper calls the tune
259. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
260. You can't fight city hall
261. You can't get a quart into a pint pot
262. You can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
263. You can't put a wise head on young shoulders. You can't put an old head on young shoulders
264. You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
265. You can't take it with you
266. You get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
267. You get what you pay for
268. You've got to be in it to win it