Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These sayings are called “proverbs”. It’s good to know the really common English proverbs because you hear them come up in conversation all the time. Sometimes people say the entire proverb to give advice to a friend. More often, someone will say just part of it. Learning proverbs can also help you to understand the way that people in English-speaking cultures think about the world. Tap on the link “Learn English Proverbs” at the top of the first page to see the most important and well-known English proverbs. Below each one, there’s a simple explanation. Note that some of the meanings of these phrases have shifted over the years, so a proverb might have originally had a different meaning. Many new features coming soon.