Tower Bridge, photo by PH Morton
English Proverbs & Sayings
England
- Capital City: London
- Constituent of United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
- Currency: Pound Sterling
- National Animal: Lion
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
– English Proverb
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A full cup must be carried steadily.
– English Proverb
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An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
– England
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A watched kettle never boils.
– England
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
– England
A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings.
– England
As old as the itch.
– English
A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
– England
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
– England
All roads lead to Rome.
– England
Beware of a man of one book.
– English Proverb
Cast no dirt into the well that has given you water.
– England
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
– English Proverb
Don’t question good luck.
– British
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
– English Proverb
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Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
– English Proverb
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Don’t fall before you’re pushed.
– English Proverb
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Every path has its puddle.
– English Proverb
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First deserve, and then desire.
– English Proverb
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Hunger is the best sauce.
– England
In a cat’s eyes all things belong to cats.
- England
It’s a wise child that knows its own father.
– England
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Love lives in cottages as well as courts.
– English
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
~English Proverb
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More haste, less speed.
– England
One of these days is none of these days.
– England
Pigs might fly.
– England
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
– England
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
– England
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
– England
The eyes are the window of the soul.
– English Proverb
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‘Tis money that begets money.
– England
The saddest dog sometimes wags its tail.
– England
There is no time like the present.
– England
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
– W.Somerset Mugham (Playwright, Novelist, Short Story Writer)
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
– England
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
– England
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
– England
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
– England
The sun shines on both sides of the hedge.
– England
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
– England
Where there are bees there is honey.
– England
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
– England