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Examples of Proverbs 5. Proverbs are popular, memorable and wise sayings expressed in a brief and effective manner. Proverbs often advice about how to live your life. With Examples of Proverbs 5 lesson, learn the examples of common proverbs and their meanings! Use these famous proverbs in your writing and enhance your writing skills.
Proverb | Meaning |
| Let sleeping dogs lie | Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems |
| Make hay while the sun shines | Make good use of an opportunity while it lasts |
| More haste, less speed | You make better progress with a task if you don’t try to do it too quickly |
| No news is good news | Without information to the contrary you can assume that all is well |
| Once bitten, twice shy | An unpleasant experience induces caution |
| One good turn deserves another | If someone does you a favour, you should take the chance to repay it |
| One man’s meat is another man’s poison | Things liked or enjoyed by one person may be distasteful to another |
| Out of sight, out of mind | You soon forget people or things that are no longer visible or present |
| Pride goes before a fall | If you’re too conceited or self-important, something will happen to make you look foolish |
| Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander | If one person is allowed to do something or to behave in a particular way, then another person must be allowed to do that thing or behave in that way, too |
| Set a thief to catch a thief | Used to indicate that people will be dealt with strictly in the order in which they arrive or apply |
| Spare the rod and spoil the child | If children are not physically punished when they do wrong their personal development will suffer |
| Still waters run deep | A quiet or placid manner may conceal a passionate nature |
Unity is strength | Sticking together is a source of strength |
| We never miss the water till the well runs dry | People are not grateful for what they have until they lose it |
| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery | Copying someone or something is an implicit way of paying them a compliment |
| Great oaks from little acorns grow | Something of small or modest proportions may grow into something very large or impressive |
| Hunger is the best sauce | Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one’s food |
| Out of the frying pan into the fire | From a bad situation to one that is worse |
| Speech is silver silence is golden | Keeping one’s mouth shut is a great virtue |
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