C.J. English Quotes

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.

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

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.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself

Haste makes waste.

An old head upon young shoulders.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who echoes your deepest thoughts of yourself

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.

Where there's a will there's a way.

The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

The wind that blows the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

Still waters run deep.

Year of snow Fruit will grow.

Talk is cheap.

There is honor among thieves.

When thieves fall out honest men come by their own.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A stitch in time saves nine.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Time trieth truth.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Art is not democratic. Art is sublime.

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.

He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

Youth will be served.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.