English in everyday life
Proverbs
Explore English sayings from most to least frequent in a published American English corpus. Alternate forms are collected together.
About these frequency groups
Groups use full-form occurrence counts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), recorded in 2016–2017. For a proverb with several forms, we use the highest individual count, since adding overlapping forms could count the same occurrence twice.
These are historical American English corpus counts, not estimates of how often everyone uses a saying today. A zero means no full-form match was recorded. The source’s separate familiarity ratings are retained in the data but do not determine this ordering.
We grouped variants, merged reviewed duplicate entries, and preserved existing editorial wording. The source includes historical and dated sayings; inclusion is not an endorsement.
Expressions containing love, including its inflections. Clear word filter
49 entries
Common
10–99 recorded occurrences
Love thy neighbor
All you need is love
Misery loves company
Love is blind
Love it or leave it
Love conquers all
Make love, not war
Money is the root of all evil
Matching variant: The love of money is the root of all evil
All's fair in love and war
Less common
1–9 recorded occurrences
Love makes the world go round
Love is eternal
The course of true love never did run smooth
Love is everywhere
You're never too old to learn
Matching variant: Never too old to love
Love will find a way
Love is a many-splendored thing
Love is beautiful
Love means never having to say you're sorry
Money can't buy love
Everybody loves a comeback
Love is where you find it
No glove, no love
Everybody loves a clown
Everyone loves a lover
Love counts
Love me, love my dog
Love them and leave them
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
The love you take is equal to the love you make
Not observed in this corpus
No full-form matches recorded; this does not mean the proverb is never used