Proverbs in English

Proverbs in English – A proverb is a popular saying, expressing a truth or common fact. Wise old sayings. Learn how our ancestors remembered facts.

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• A dog is a man’s best friend.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing.
• A poor workman blames his tools.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• A stitch in time saves nine.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• Dead or alive, the elephant has a high value.
• Do stones wear out if ants crawl on them?
• Education without a system and cultivation without supervision are useless.
• Empty clouds thunder a lot.
• Even if the horse were blind, it does not eat any less.
• Even while throwing away, you count and throw.
• For the feast in the dream, the money in the mirror.
• Fortune favours the bold
• Going to dig a well when the house is on fire.
• Good things come to those who wait.
• Haste makes waste.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• If the shoe fits, wear it!
• If the times are bad, even a stick springs to life and bites like a serpent.
• If you feed a dog to make it grow to the size of a horse, you have to do the barking yourself.
• Ignorance is bliss.
• It is better to be smarter than you appear than to appear smarter than you are.
• Knowledge breeds humility.
• Like hiding behind a horse, fearing that the bull might kick.
• Mustn’t cry over spilled milk.
• Slow and steady wins the race
• The drum gets the beating, the drummer, the reward.
• The foe at hand is better than the friend afar.
• The frog gets angry if the serpent is permitted to bite, and the serpent gets angry if it is asked not to.
• The horns that come up later are sharper than the ears that come at birth.
• There is no pleasure better than being sick if there is someone to look after you.
• Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
• To open your inner eyes, the teacher should come in your childhood.
• Trees are afraid of storms and not the grass on the ground.
• Well begun is half done.
• What spoils you is your own tongue.
• What sprouts within Will bloom without.
• Whether the leaf falls on the thorn, or the thorn falls on the leaf, it is the leaf that suffers.
• You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
• You yourself will fall in the pit you dig.