This is a pragma -linguistic study of figurative language in English and Arabic proverbs. The study aims to investigate the figures of speech in proverbs. The study is devoted to review the different Arabic and English definitions and classifications of both figurative language and proverbs and types of Arabic proverbs as the study will throw light upon the Arabic and English proverbs and their characteristics. This study is an attempt to integrate the theories of language universals with the similarities in the two languages. The study offers a contrastive study of figurative language in some proverbs in both languages