English Proverbs
A dog is a man's best friend
A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings. |
A man can't be hanged for his thoughts. |
A man is as old as he feels, a woman as old as she looks.. |
A mother never thinks her baby is ugly. |
A person is known by the company he keeps. |
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. |
A rich man's joke is always funny. |
A small leak will sink a great ship. |
A thief believes everybody steals. |
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. |
An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time. |
Anger dies quickly with a good man. |
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. |
Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye. |
Death always comes too early or too late. |
Do not meet troubles half way. |
Do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. |
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. |
Don't criticize other people if you're not perfect yourself |
Don't cry over spilt milk. |
Don't judge a book by its cover. |
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more. |
Experience is the mother of knowledge.. |
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. |
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch |
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. |
It's good to have some friends both in heaven and hell |
Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it |
Learning makes a good man better and a bad man worse. |
Man learns little from success, but much from failure. |
Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians |
Never tell your enemy that your foot aches |
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken |
Old sins have long shadows. |
Some are very busy and yet do nothing. |
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear |
The devil finds work for idle hands |
The measure of our sacrifice is the measure of our love |
The more you get the more you want |
The secret of success is constancy of purpose |
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. |
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value |
Why worry? If you worry you die. If you don't worry you'll still die. So why worry |
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