English Proverbs & Sayings part-12

• Plenty is no plague.
• Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.
• Poverty is no sin.
• Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
• Practise what you preach.
• Praise is not pudding.
• Pride goes before a fall.
• Procrastination is the thief of time.
• Promise is debt.
• Promise little, but do much.
• Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
• Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
• Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
• Rats desert a sinking ship.
• Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
• Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
• Roll my log and I will roll yours.
• Rome was not built in a day.
• Salt water and absence wash away love.
• Saying and doing are two things.
• Score twice before you cut once.
• Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
• Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
• Self done is soon done.
• Self done is well done.
• Self is a bad counsellor.
• Self-praise is no recommendation.
• Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
• Set a thief to catch a thief.
• Shallow streams make most din.
• Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
• Silence gives consent.
• Since Adam was a boy.
• Sink or swim!
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
• Slow and steady wins the race.
• Slow but sure.
• Small rain lays great dust.
• So many countries, so many customs.
• So many men, so many minds.
• Soft fire makes sweet malt.
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
• Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
• Soon ripe, soon rotten.
• Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
• Speech is silver but silence is gold.
• Standers-by see more than gamesters.
• Still waters run deep.
• Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
• Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
• Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
• Success is never blamed.
• Such carpenters, such chips.
• Sweep before your own door.
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
• Take us as you find us.
• Tarred with the same brush.
• Tastes differ.
• Tell that to the marines.
• That cock won't fight.
• That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
• That's a horse of another colour.
• That's where the shoe pinches!
• The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).
• The best fish smell when they are three days old.
• The best fish swim near the bottom.
• The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
• The busiest man finds the most leisure.
• The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
• The cap fits.
• The cask savours of the first fill.
• The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
• The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
• The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
• The cobbler should stick to his last.
• The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
• The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
• The darkest place is under the candlestick.
• The devil is not so black as he is painted.
• The devil knows many things because he is old.
• The devil lurks behind the cross.
• The devil rebuking sin.
• The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
• The Dutch have taken Holland !
• The early bird catches the worm.
• The end crowns the work.
• The end justifies the means.
• The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
• The exception proves the rule.
• The face is the index of the mind.
• The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
• The fat is in the fire.
• The first blow is half the battle.
• The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
• The game is not worth the candle.
• The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
• The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
• The last drop makes the cup run over.