English Proverbs
- Learn by doing.
- Murder will out.
- A liberal is a man who tells other people how to spend their money.
- Professionals built the Titanic - amateurs the ark.
- Recession is when your neighbour loses his job; depression is when you lose yours.
- A right sometimes sleeps but it never dies.
- Rights are lost by disuse.
- The road to ruin is always kept in good repair.
- Never give a sucker an even break.
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome some day.
- song associated with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, adapted from a Baptist hymn
- Western Wind, when wilt thou blow,
Christ if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again.
- Who loves not wine, women, and song
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Now I lay me down to sleep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
- From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
Good Lord deliver us!
- A good beginning makes a good ending.
- He laughs best who laughs last.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- A proverb is the child of experience.
- A maid that laughs is half taken.
- A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
- Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
- Time and tide wait for no man.
- What is done is well done quickly enough.