234 Sayings of English Origin

1. "Silence is golden." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "You have to take the good with the bad." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "God gives the milk but not the pail." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Conscience cannot be compelled." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "A dog is a man's best friend." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Death always comes too early or too late." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "All clever men are birds of prey." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Once bitten, twice shy." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Don't cry over spilt milk." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Don't put the cart before the horse." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "A place for everything and everything in its place." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Keep counsel of thyself first." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "All for one and one for all." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "The show must go on." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "A fair booty makes a fair thief." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Blest is the bride the sun shines on." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "Don't do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "All are not thieves that dogs bark at." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Everyone must row with the oars he has." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "A full cup must be carried steadily." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Beauty is only skin deep." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "Strike while the iron is hot." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Make not your sail too big for your ballast." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "He that will steal an egg will steal an ox." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "The leopard cannot change its spots." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Don't drown the man who taught you to swim." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Age and wedlock tame man and beast." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "It is ill prizing of green barley." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Alms never make poor." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Much ado and little help." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "You can't have your cake and eat it too." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "A young man idle, an old man needy." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Every cloud has a silver lining." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "An empty barrel makes the most noise." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "There's more than one way to skin a cat." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Don't judge a book by its cover." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Don't fall before you're pushed." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "One picture is worth a thousand words." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "It's no use crying over spilled milk." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Crooked logs make straight fires." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Do not triumph before the victory." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "He who killed the lion when absent feared a mouse when present." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Well begun is half done." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "If at first you don't succeed, try again." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "Many hands make light work." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "A hero is a man who is afraid to run away." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "A cold April the barn will fill." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "Great minds think alike." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "An idle brain is the devil's workshop." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "It's never too late to mend." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "All are not merry that dance lightly." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "An enterprising fool needs little wit." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "Misery loves company." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Leave a great talker in the middle of the street." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "Actions speak louder than words." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "A proverb is the child of experience." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "Two wrongs don't make a right." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Two is company, three is a crowd." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "All is fair in love and war." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "Gray hairs are death's blossoms." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "It's money that begets money." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "A stumble may prevent a fall." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "A broken clock is right twice a day." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "First deserve, and then desire." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "Fools build houses, and wise men buy them." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Death is a shadow that always follows the body." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "Don't throw out the baby with the bath water." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "Advice is least heeded when most needed." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "Never fall out with your bread and butter." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Absence is a shrew." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix in its ashes." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "A maid who laughs is half taken." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "He laughs best who laughs last." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "A guilty conscience needs no accuser." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "Necessity is the mother of invention." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "You reap what you sow." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "The bigger they are the harder they fall." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "There's no such thing as bad publicity." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "It is better to begin in the evening than not at all." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "Still waters run deep." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "Each cross has its own inscription." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "Whom we love best, to them we can say least." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "Time heals all wounds." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself?" (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "Look before you leap." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "Beware of a man of one book." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "It takes all sorts to make a world." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "Haste makes waste." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

125. "Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

126. "Innocent actions carry their warrant with them." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

127. "Live and let live." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

128. "If it's not one thing it's another." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

129. "Let every man praise the bridge he goes over." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

130. "Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

131. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

132. "Jack of all trades, master of none." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

133. "Measure twice, cut once." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

134. "Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

135. "In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

136. "Envy shoots at others and wounds itself." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

137. "Rome wasn't built in a day." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

138. "Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

139. "Little strokes fell great oaks." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

140. "An hour may destroy what an age was building." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

141. "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

142. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

143. "He that hath no children doth bring them up well." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

144. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

145. "What will be, will be." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

146. "It is ill fishing before the net." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

147. "It's not over 'till the fat lady sings." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

148. "A joy that's shared is a joy made double." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

149. "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

150. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

151. "Confession is the first step to repentance." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

152. "Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

153. "A friend to all is a friend to none." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

154. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

155. "Many a true word is spoken in jest." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

156. "Money is the root of all evil." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

157. "He that's a wise man by day is no fool by night." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

158. "Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

159. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

160. "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

161. "An apple never falls far from the tree." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

162. "Custom is the guide of the ignorant." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

163. "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

164. "What goes around comes around." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

165. "The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

166. "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

167. "Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

168. "Make not the sauce till you have caught the fish." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

169. "A small family is soon provided for." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

170. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

171. "Death keeps no calendar." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

172. "You get what you pay for." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

173. "He who pays the piper may call the tune." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

174. "Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

175. "If you snooze, you lose." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

176. "Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

177. "All temptations are found in either hope or fear." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

178. "Character is easier kept than recovered." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

179. "He is a fool that kissed the maid when he may kiss the mistress." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

180. "Half a loaf is better than none." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

181. "The devil dances in empty pockets." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

182. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

183. "Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

184. "Don't halt before you are lame." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

185. "Good words cool more than cold water." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

186. "He that seeks trouble never misses." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

187. "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

188. "Foul water will quench fire." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

189. "A black plum is as sweet as a white." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

190. "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

191. "A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

192. "Far fowls have fair feathers." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

193. "He that bulls the cow must keep the calf." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

194. "Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

195. "Better late than never." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

196. "A ragged colt may make a good horse." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

197. "A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

198. "Slow and steady wins the race." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

199. "Knowledge is power." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

200. "Cats hide their claws." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

201. "A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

202. "Adversity flatters no man." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

203. "A shady lane breeds mud." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

204. "A black hen lays a white egg." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

205. "He that does amiss may do well." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

206. "What goes up must come down." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

207. "Hindsight is 20/20." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

208. "A burnt child dreads the fire." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

209. "Do not fall before you are pushed." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

210. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

211. "It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

212. "Better safe than sorry." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

213. "Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

214. "When it rains, it pours." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

215. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

216. "A lie has short legs." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

217. "There's no place like home." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

218. "April showers bring May flowers." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

219. "Spread the table and contention will cease." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

220. "Time is money." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

221. "Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

222. "Ale in, wit out." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

223. "Appearances can be deceiving." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

224. "An abundance of money ruins youth." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

225. "The grass is always greener on the other side." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

226. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

227. "A good beginning makes a good ending." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

228. "A hungry man is an angry man." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

229. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

230. "Big thunder, little rain." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

231. "Don't lock the stable door after the horse is stolen." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

232. "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

233. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (English Sayings) Click to tweet

 

234. "Better the devil you know than the one you don't." (English Sayings) Click to tweet