English Proverb Quotes

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

The shortest answer is doing.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Two heads are better than one.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

He laughs best who laughs last.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Misery loves company.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Where there's a will there's a way.

Like mother like daughter.

When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

One man's meat is another's poison.

If wishes were horses beggars might ride.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed Mohammed must go to the mountain.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

Youth will be served.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

When thieves fall out honest men come by their own.

A stitch in time saves nine.

There is honor among thieves.

Talk is cheap.

Still waters run deep.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Every path has its puddle.

It never rains but it pours.

Time trieth truth.

A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds.

As old as the itch.

A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.