English Proverbs and sayings

English Proverbs and sayings

• Help me to salt, help me to sorrow.
• Everything must have a beginning.
• He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas.
• Happy is the country that has no history.
• Don't halloo 'til you are out of the wood
• Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it.
• It will all be the same a hundred years hence.
• Cards are the devil's book.
• If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you.
• According to Epictetus(AD 55-135) "we have 2 ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak" - "What? said the old man"
• A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man prefers to be sat on by a bee (Polish proverb)
• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-point is in the ears. He who looks for it bellow there is wasting his time (Isabel Allende)
• "The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smelss like people's feet. Utter cowars who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language" (P.J.O'ROURKE)
• How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when clearly it is Ocean (Arthur C. Clarke)
• When wealth has come, follow your heart, wealth does no good if one is misserable (Egyptian proverb)
• An onion offered with love is worth a sheep (Egyptian proverb)