English Proverbs

Always sample a maidens charms before the wedding. English Proverbs Image

Always sample a maidens charms before the wedding.

Sometimes people who live in glass houses throw stones because their windows are painted. English Proverbs Image

Sometimes people who live in glass houses throw stones because their windows are painted.

Don’t do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know. English Proverbs Image

Don’t do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. English Proverbs Image

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play. English Proverbs Image

Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play.

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third live in it yourself. English Proverbs Image

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third live in it yourself.

Life’s a bleach and then you dye. English Proverbs Image

Life’s a bleach and then you dye.

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be. English Proverbs Image

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young. English Proverbs Image

They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young.

If a man deceive me once, shame on him; but if he deceive me twice, shame on me. English Proverbs Image

If a man deceive me once, shame on him; but if he deceive me twice, shame on me.

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish. English Proverbs Image

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. English Proverbs Image

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. English Proverbs Image

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. English Proverbs Image

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

If you make songs about yourself, you can’t blame other people for singing them. English Proverbs Image

If you make songs about yourself, you can’t blame other people for singing them.

With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide. English Proverbs Image

With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide.

The italians are wise before the deed; the germans in the deed; the frenchs after the deed. English Proverbs Image

The italians are wise before the deed; the germans in the deed; the frenchs after the deed.

Sweep the house with a broom in may and you’ll sweep the luck of the house away. English Proverbs Image

Sweep the house with a broom in may and you’ll sweep the luck of the house away.

The village slatternly wench has the form of a dove at those who are drowning. English Proverbs Image

The village slatternly wench has the form of a dove at those who are drowning.

The third time someone tries to put a saddle on you, you should admit you’re a horse. English Proverbs Image

The third time someone tries to put a saddle on you, you should admit you’re a horse.

He who lives according to nature will never be poor English Proverbs Image

He who lives according to nature will never be poor

Beer before liquor, you’ll never be sicker, but liquor before beer and you’re in the clear. English Proverbs Image

Beer before liquor, you’ll never be sicker, but liquor before beer and you’re in the clear.

He that labours is tempted by one devil. English Proverbs Image

He that labours is tempted by one devil.

He that has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. English Proverbs Image

He that has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

A son is a son till he gets him a wife English Proverbs Image

A son is a son till he gets him a wife

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same bag. English Proverbs Image

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same bag.

Big boast, small roast. English Proverbs Image

Big boast, small roast.

Blest is the bride the sun shines on. English Proverbs Image

Blest is the bride the sun shines on.

Blind men should not judge of colours. English Proverbs Image

Blind men should not judge of colours.

Clean as God’s fingertips. English Proverbs Image

Clean as God’s fingertips.

It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen. English Proverbs Image

It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen.

Close but no cigar. English Proverbs Image

Close but no cigar.

Cobbler, stick to thy last. English Proverbs Image

Cobbler, stick to thy last.

Cold hands, warm heart. English Proverbs Image

Cold hands, warm heart.

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not. English Proverbs Image

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.

If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion. English Proverbs Image

If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.

If thou seest ought amiss, mend it in thyself. English Proverbs Image

If thou seest ought amiss, mend it in thyself.

Common sense ain’t common. English Proverbs Image

Common sense ain’t common.

If wishes were horses, then beggers would ride English Proverbs Image

If wishes were horses, then beggers would ride

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. English Proverbs Image

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

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