The Most Common Proverbs in English

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

A bachelor is a bachelor because he knows more about women.

A door must be either shut or opened.

A liar needs a good memory.

A hungry man is an angry man.

A little explained, a little endured, a little forgiven, the quarrel is cured.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband, except stop criticising and trying to improve him.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, than his wife.

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

A poor man who marries a wealthy woman gets a ruler, not a wife.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A successful husband is the one who makes more money than his wife Can spend, a- successful wife is the one who can find such a husband.

A woman laughs when she can and weeps when she will.

Adam must have Eve to blame for all his faults.

After a man is fifty, you can fool him by saying he is smart, but you can’t fool him by saying he is pretty.

All is fair in love and war.

Beggars cannot be choosers.

Bells call others to church, but go not themselves.

Before I got married I, had six theories about bringing up children, now I have six children and no theories.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Charity begins at home.

Dead men tell no tales.

Do not put the cart before the horse.

Do you know how to stop smoking; always carry wet match sticks.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Every law has a loophole.

Everything looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Facts are stranger than fiction.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fear that man who fears not God.

Forbidden fruit is sweetest.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

God created women only to tame men.

God helps the poor, for the rich can help themselves.

God, save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.

Gossiping and lying go together.

He has two stomachs to eat, but one stomach to work.

He is the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

He that always complains never gets solutions.

He that has a long nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He will never reach heaven who wants to go alone.

He that has no children knows not what is love.

He that marries for wealth sells away his liberty.

He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life.

He who wishes to kill his dog, accuses him of madness.

He that shows his purse bribes the thief.

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.

He who gives fair words only feeds you with an empty spoon.

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

He who never was sick dies at the first illness.

It is disgraceful to stumble twice against the same stone.

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and in hell.

It is no use growing like a tree.

It is the crying child that gets the milk.

If there is a will, there is a way.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

In marriage the husband should have two eyes, and the wife but one.

Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it.

Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it.

Kitchen physics is the best physics.

Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away.

Learn as if you were to live for ever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Little drops of water make a mighty ocean.

Love is blind.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.

Man should be like tea, his real strength appearing when he’s in boiling waters.

Many give me bread, but not like my mother gives.

Many people live in poverty in order to die rich.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to go out.

Marriage is the only field where previous experience is a dis qualification.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my lite there.

Marry in haste and repent at leisure.

Men who deserve monuments do not need them.

Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.

My way of joking is to tell the truth; it is the funniest joke in the world.

Necessity can make even the timid brave.

Never ask pardon before you are accused.

Never light your candle at both ends.

Never make threats you cannot carry out.

No man has ever escaped his destiny.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the tone of voice in which you talk.

Nobody is fond of fading flowers.

One cannot help many, but many can help one.

Of two evils choose the lesser.

Praise to the face is open disgrace.

Pain is forgotten when gain comes.

Revolutions are not made with rose-water.

Silence is the most sparkling ornament to a woman.

Something is better than nothing.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

The ass that brays most eats least.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people.

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the t0psy-turvy world.

The country which has too many laws has too little justice.

The devil dances in an empty pocket.

The first breath is the beginning of the last breath.

The easiest way to Change a woman ’s mind is to agree with her.

The proof of gold is fire; the proof of a woman gold; the proof of a man, a woman.

The more thy years, the nearer thy grave.

The same heat that melts the wax hardens the clay.

The thread breaks where it is weakest.

The unborn and the dead are the only ones who make no mistakes.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than a tool does from his friends.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.

There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead.

There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but mad men know.

To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint.

There is but one good wife in the world, and every man thinks he has her.

Two fools in one house are too many.

We are interested in others when they are interested in us.

What blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we do our eyes.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

What can’t be cured must be endured.

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three fingers are pointing at himself.

When God closes one door, he opens three windows.

When we think we fail, we are often near success.

Where ignorance is bliss. it is foolish to be wise.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Where there is smoke, there is fi re.

Where there is love, there is jealousy.

Who hath a fair wife needs more than two eyes.

Winter weather and women’s thoughts change.

You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.

You may lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

Zeal without knowledge is like a fire without light.