・・・The collection of English proverbs・・・
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not
ignorance --it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is
nothing, with tools he is all.
-Thomas Carlyle
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