30 Examples of Proverbs in English

30 Examples of Proverbs in English

1.Plenty is no plague.

2.Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.

3.Poverty is no sin.

4.They are hand and glove.

5.They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.

6.Things past cannot be recalled.

7.Think today and speak tomorrow.

8.The busiest man finds the most leisure.

9.The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.

10.There is no fire without smoke.

11.Many a true word is spoken in jest.

12.Many hands make light work.

13.There is no place like home.

14.There is no rose without a thorn.

15.There is no rule without an exception.

16.There is no smoke without fire.

17.Idleness is the mother of all evil.

18.Idleness rusts the mind.

19.If an hole (donkey) bray at you, don’t bray at him.

20.If ifs and ans were pots and pans…

21.If my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle.

22.If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch..

23.If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.

24.Men may meet but mountains never.

25.Packed like herrings.

26.Learn to say before you sing.

27.Least said, soonest mended.

28.Leaves without figs.

29.Let bygones be bygones.

30.Many words hurt more than swords.