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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
On this page: garbage: Garbage in, garbage out to great: Great minds think alike.

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garbage: Garbage in, garbage out

generations: It takes three generations to make a gentleman

genius: Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

gift: Never look a gift horse in the mouth

give: Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the Devil's gold ring

give: Give and take is fair play

give: Give the Devil his due

gives: He gives twice who gives quickly

glass: Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

glitters: All that glitters is not gold

go: Go abroad and you'll hear news of home

go: Go further and fare worse

god: God helps them that help themselves

god: God made the country, and man made the town

god: God makes the back to the burden

god: God never sends mouths but He sends meat

god: God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks

god: God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb

god: God's in his heaven; all's right with the world

god: Where god builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel

god: You cannot serve god and Mammon

gods: The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

gods: Whom the gods love die young

gods: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad

goes: He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing

goes: What goes around comes around

going: When the going gets tough, the tough get going

gold: Gold may be bought too dear

golden: A golden key can open any door

good: A good beginning makes a good ending

good: A good horse cannot be of a bad colour

good: A good Jack makes a good Jill

good: Good fences make good neighbours

good: Good men are scarce

good: Good wine needs no bush

good: He is a good dog who goes to church

good: If you can't be good, be careful

good: No good deed goes unpunished

good: One good turn deserves another

good: The good die young

good: The good is the enemy of the best

good: The only good Indian is a dead Indian

good: There's many a good cock come out of a tattered bag

good: There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

gorse: When the gorse is out of bloom, kissing's out of fashion

got: What is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly

grass: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

grass: While the grass grows, the steed starves

great: A great book is a great evil

great: Great minds think alike

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