C.J. English Quotes

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Monday for wealth Tuesday for health Wednesday the best day of all: Thursday for crosses Friday for losses Saturday no luck at all.

Despair doubles our strength.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

All is fair in love and war.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Haste makes waste.

An old head upon young shoulders.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him Three white feet - look well about him Four white feet - go without him.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Like mother like daughter.

One crow will not pick out another crow's eyes.

Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock When the bough breaks the cradle will fall Down will come baby cradle and all.

Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed Mohammed must go to the mountain.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

One man's meat is another's poison.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

As poor as a church mouse.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.

Every path has its puddle.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.