・・・The collection of English proverbs・・・

・・・The collection of English proverbs・・・

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
- Edith Cavell(Last words)

　

Somebody must play the bad parts in this world, on and off the stage.
- A.W.Pinero

　

The Whole world is about three drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart

　

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
- Brian Aldiss

　

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
- Grace Hansen

　

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
- Jascha Heifetz

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Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare

　

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

　

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

　

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
- Samuel Ullman

　

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

　

To marry be like jumping into a river because you're thirsty.
- Eden Phillpotts

　

The best things carried to excess are wrong.
- Charles Churchill

　

Live well. It is greatest revenge.
-The Talmud

　

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Tennyson

　

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
- Samerset Maugham

　

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

　

There is only one success - to be able to spend you life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley

　

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are,
But how you deal with incompatibility.
-Giorge Levinger

　

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-Andre Gide

　

If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney

　

Children have more need of models than of critics.
-Joseph Joubert

　

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

　

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-Anthony Brandt

　

Man knows so much and does so little.
-R・Buckminster Fuller

　

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
-Wallace Stevens

　

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
-Gene Fowler

　

Hell is other people.
-Jean P Sartre

　

A sad barnyard where the hen crows louder than the cock.
-English Proverbs

　

Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
-Colley Cibber

　

Every man can rule an ill wife but him that has her.
-English Proverbs

　

The uglier the woman, the better the house-wife.
-German proverbs

　

A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only, choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
-Thomas Fuller

　

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
-Rudyard Kipling

　

We women do talk too much, but even then we don't tell half we know.
-Nancy Astor

　

The reason you have no money is because you don't love it for itself alone.
Money won't ever surrender to such a flirt.
-Finley Peter Dunne

　

Money is like a sixth sense--and you can't make use of the other five without it.
-Somerset Maugham

　

When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I know it is.
-Oscar Wilde

　

It is not the man has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
-Seneca

　

Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money;
Lend, and the chances are that you lose yourfriend if ever you get back your money.
-Sir Edward Bulwar-Lytton

　

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli

　

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
-Johathan Swift

　

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military man.
-Talleyrand

　

I do not know why I am so sad; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
-Heine

　

Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.
-Emile Zola

　

Imperialism is a paper tiger.
-Mao-Tse-Tung

　

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place everyday.
-Albert Camus

　

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
Be it ever so humble, there's no place home!
-John Howard Payne

　

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
-Aristotle

　

While there's life, there's hope.
-Terence

　

There is no greater grief than to recall a time of happiness when in misery.
-Dante

　

I am going in search of a great perhaps.
-Rabelais

　

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-Butler

　

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
-O. Henry

　

A woman's whole life is a history of affections.
-Irving

　

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
-Jerome K. Jerome

　

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
-James Boswell

　

Is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
-John Milton

　

I saw that was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
-John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

　

Never make a defence of apology before you be accused.
-Charles Ⅰ

　

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; know it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves then dies; the same.
-Edward Young

　

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
-Chesterfield

　

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin

　

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-Samuel Johnson

　

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
-Horace Walpole

　

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffers.
-William Blackstone

　

If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
-Joshua Reynolds

　

Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair.
-Edmund Burke

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