This paper discusses the syntactic structures of proverbs in Taiwan Southern Min by analyzing one thousand proverbs collected in a proverb dictionary. The data analyses reveal that among the sentence patterns involving omission of components such as subject, object, or verb, subjectless clauses are most commonly found in proverbs and the reference of the omitted subject can be found in either the linguistic or situational context. Object preposing or topicalization sentence patterns do not occur frequently in proverbs, even though they are common in non-proverbs. To express rich meaning in short forms, proverbs often contain complex structures.