Collection of English proverbs, sayings and popular sayings in England translated into Italian, as testimony to the wisdom of this grumpy but nice people.
English idioms
- Every man can tame a bitch, except who has it.
- Crush an idiot in a mortar; it will never be wiser.
- Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner.
- Keep your problem waiting until his day comes.
- A man's best fortune or his worst fortune is a wife.
- There is no way to get white flour from a bag of coal.
- A man who is his lawyer has a madman as a client.
- It is better to be lucky than rich.
- Two things lengthen your life: a calm heart and a loving wife.
- It is a stupid fish that bites twice to the same bait.
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- Someone's rubbish is someone else's gold.
- Beggars cannot be demanding.
- Don't run after success, run after perfection and success will come behind you.
- Ignorance is a bliss.
- Common sense is not so common.
- Do not cut your nose in spite of your face.
- Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Blushing is the color of virtue.
- You can't judge a book by its cover.
- The value of a thing is known most of all by its lack.
- Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved.
- Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
- If the slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.
- A penny saved is a penny earned.
- A friend who stays close to us when you are in trouble is truly a friend.
- The priest baptizes his own son first.
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the king.
- I taught you to swim and you drowned me.
- Laugh and the world will laugh with you, cry and cry alone.
- If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if it kills the earth it hides it.
- A calm sea has never made a good sailor.
English sayings
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- Keep an open mind at all costs, but not so open that your brain falls out.
- An ounce of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- If you have no enemies, it is a sign that luck has forgotten you.
- Nothing dries sooner than tears.
- Where God has a church the devil will have his chapel.
- The heart sees further than the head.
- You can pull and pull, but you can't milk a bull.
- A bad worker always complains about his tools.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- An enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few.
- If you want something well done, you have to do it yourself.
- Love is not finding someone to live with; is finding someone you can't live without.
- Bring two faces under one hood.
- The best doctors are Doctor Dieta, Doctor Quiete and Doctor Allegro.
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- Some men go through a forest and don't see the firewood.
- Better to save on the edge than on the bottom.
- Good laws were born from bad habits.
- Whoever has a body made of glass must not throw stones at another.
- Don't bark if you can't bite.
- Don't change horses halfway.
- Home is where the heart is located.
- Politics makes strange bedfellows.
- Shared joy, doubled joy: shared pain, pain divided in half.
- Cowards die many times before their death.
- A half-truth is a whole lie.
- The opportunity never knocks twice on a man's door.
- You never know what you can do until you try.
- No man is an island.
English proverbs
- The bad penny sooner or later turns up.
- The best place for criticism is in front of your mirror.
- Have your spindle and your rock ready and God will send you linen.
- A full wallet never lacked friends.
- Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- Youth is wasted on young people.
- Don't cross bridges before you get there.
- Actions are fruits, words are only leaves.
- When the head is sick, the whole body is sick.
Wherever a man dwells, he will be sure to have a thorn bush near his door.
- Liars need good memory.
- Save a thief from the gallows and be the first to cut your throat.
- Constant occupation prevents temptations.
- It is as quiet as a wasp in the nose.
- Nature, time and patience are three great doctors.
- It is not wise to reopen old wounds.
- Don't ask me questions and you won't hear any lies.
- A good start makes a good conclusion.
- Children, fools and drunks tell the truth.
- Who does not want to be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
- Find an agreement, because the law is expensive.
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- Our worst misfortunes are those that never hit us.
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- The woman's tongue flaps like a lamb's tail.
- Never lie to your doctor.
- A good surgeon has the eye of an eagle, the heart of a lion and the hand of a lady.
- Every day his own evil suffices.
- A woman's opinion and the winter wind often change.
- The more rogue you are, the luckier you are.
- The fish must swim three times.
- The night shows the stars and women in better light.
