Like breeds like.
—Common Proverb
A cat may look at a king.
—Common Proverb
What’s done cannot be undone.
—Common Proverb
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Science, Philosophy
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Words
All cats are gray in the dark.
—Common Proverb
Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile.
—Common Proverb
Opportunity knocks but once.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
Even a worm will turn.
—Common Proverb
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Luck
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
—Common Proverb
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
—Common Proverb
Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.
—Common Proverb
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Truth, Evil
Look after number one.
—Common Proverb
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Trust
Forgive and forget.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.
—Common Proverb
Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear.
—Common Proverb
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
—Common Proverb
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
—Common Proverb
Two heads are better than one.
—Common Proverb
Keep a weather-eye open.
—Common Proverb
Patience is a virtue.
—Common Proverb
Today is yesterday’s pupil.
—Common Proverb
Topics: The Present, Present
Blood is thicker than water.
—Common Proverb
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Medicine
A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Taxes, Wealth, Fools
Better be safe than sorry.
—Common Proverb
You can’t get blood out of a stone.
—Common Proverb
Long absent, soon forgotten.
—Common Proverb
Constant dripping wears away the stone.
—Common Proverb
Look before you leap.
—Common Proverb
Civility costs nothing.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Manners
You can lead a horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink.
—Common Proverb
Third time lucky.
—Common Proverb
It is easy to be wise after the event.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Events
Look on the bright side.
—Common Proverb
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterward.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Children
Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
—Common Proverb