Английские крылатые выражения

• A room without books is a body without soul.

• Choose an author as you choose a friend.

• Don’t judge a book by its cover.

• Good advice is beyond price.

• Hard words break no bones.

• It is never too late to learn.

• Knowledge is no burden.

• Knowledge is power.

• Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

• Like author, like book.

• Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

• Live and learn.

• Many a true word is spoken in jest.

•No man is bom wise or learned.

• The pen is mightier than the sword.

•Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

• The wisdom of many, the wit of one.

• There is no royal road to learning.

•То know everything is to know nothing.

• There is no friend so faithful as a good book.

• Wear the old coat and buy a new book.

• Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.

• A big head and little wit.

• All the wisdom you gain you will pay for in pain.

• A fool may give a wise man counsel.

• A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.

• A wise man will hit at the edge of his wit.

• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

• A word (is enough) to the wise.

• Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

• Fools grow without watering.

• Не has a head and so has a pin.

• Keen eyes are small gain in the head without brain.

• Не will never set the Thames on fire.

• It is easy to be wise after the event.

• Wit is better than wealth.

• No man is wise at all times.

• One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.

• Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

• Penny wise and pound foolish.

• Some are wise and some are otherwise.

• Success makes a fool look wise.

• You can’t make mercury of every log.

• A good name is better than riches.

• A light purse makes a heavy heart.

• A rich man’s joke is always funny.

• A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.

• Bare walls make giddy housewives.

• Beggars cannot be choosers.

• Empty stalls make biting horses.

• Every man has his price.

• Не is a good man whom fortune makes better.

• Не is not poor that has little, but he who desires much.

• Money has no smell.

• Не that has a full purse never wanted a friend.

• Не that has money in his purse cannot want a head on his shoulders.

• Не that has no money needs no purse.

• Не that has no silver in his purse should have silk in his tongue.

• Не who pays the piper, calls the tune.

• Ill-gotten wealth never thrives.

• Money is power.

• Money is the root of all evil.

• Money makes money.

• Money makes the mare go.

• Money opens all doors.

• When poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window.

• Much coin, much care.

• Muck and money go together.

• Poverty breeds strife.

• Poverty is no sin.

• Wealth like want ruins many.

• A fair face, but a foul heart.

• All are not hunters that blow the horn.

• All are not saints that go to church.

• All are not thieves that dogs bark at.

• All is not gold that glitters.

• Appearances are deceptive.

• Beard creates lice not brains.

• Beauty is but skin deep.

• Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.

• Beauty will buy no beef.

• Blood will tell.

• Can the leopard change his spots?

• Cat after kind.

• Cats hide their claws.

• Clothes do not make the man.

• Clothes make the man.

• Fine feathers make fine birds.

• Handsome is as handsome does.

• It is never too late to mend.

• Nature is stronger than rearing.

• The cowl does not make a monk.

• The devil is not so black as he is painted.

• Though you cast out nature with a fork, it will still return.

• What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh.

• То be slender and tall is still to be small.

•You cannot judge of a tree by its bark.

•You cannot make a crab walk straight.

• You cannot wash a charcoal white.

• The business of life is to go forward.

• Adversity flatters no man.

• Adversity is a great schoolmaster.

• Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

• Argues come on horseback, but go away on foot.

• Adversity makes the man wise, not rich.

• After rain comes fair weather.

• Better a glorious death than a shameful life.

• Bread never falls but on its buttered side.

• Calamity is a man’s true touchstone.

• God is too good for a desperate mood.

• Great deeds live.

• He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man.

• Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.

• If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.

• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

• Не that seeks trouble, never misses.

• It never rains but it pours.

• Life is a stage, so learn to play your part.

• Life is but a span.

• Life is made up of little things.

• Life is not a bed of roses.

• Life is not all cakes and ale.

• Life is not all clear sailing in calm waters.

• Light cares speak, great ones are silent.

• Live and let live.

• Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

• Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

• A busy bee has no time for sorrow.

• There is a crook in the life of everyone.

• Whilst I live, let me not live in vain.

• All the water runs to his mill.

• Better be born lucky than rich.

• Call no man happy till he is dead.

• Failure teaches success.

• Fortune is fickle.

• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

• Fortune is good to him who knows how to make good use of it.

• Happiness takes no account of time.

• Не dances well to whom fortune pipes.

• Не is happy that thinks himself so.

• Не that waits upon fortune is not sure of a dinner.

• His bread is buttered on both sides.

• Luck goes in cycles.

• Nothing succeeds like success.

• One is bom with a silver spoon in his mouth (and another with a wooden ladle).

• Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

• Every heart knows its ache.

• Hot love soon cools.

• Love is ageless.

• Love is blind.

• Love is not found in the market.

• A roving heart gathers no affection.

• Love is stronger than death.

• Love laughs at locksmiths.

• Love makes all hearts gentle.

• Love me, love my dog.

• Love not at the first look.

• Love will find a way.

• Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.

• Love will creep where it cannot go.

• Lovers live by love like larks by leeks.

• No herb will cure love.

• Out of sight, out of mind.

• The heart that once truly loves never forgets.

• A creaking gate hangs long on its hinges.

• A green wound is soon healed.

• A hungry belly has no ears.

• A hungry man is an angry man.

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• A sound mind in a sound body.

• After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

• All griefs are less with bread.

• Better pay the butcher than the doctor.

• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

• Dry feet, warm head bring safe to bed.

• Diet cures more than lancet.

• Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

• Gluttony kills more than sword.

• Health is better than wealth.

• Hunger is the best sauce.

• One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

• Temperance is the best physic.

• The belly carries legs.

• То lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

• A faithful friend is a medicine of life.

• A friend in need is a friend indeed.

• A friend to all is a friend to none.

• A friend’s eye is a good mirror.

• A hedge between keeps friendship green.

• A good friend is my nearest relation.

• Before you choose a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.

• A man is known by the company he keeps.

• Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.

• As a wolf is like a dog, so a flatterer is like a friend.

• A lone sheep is in danger of the wolf.

• Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

• Better be alone than in bad company.

• Between friends all is common.

• Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

• A wicked companion invites us all to hell.

• False friends are worse than open enemies.

• Familiarity breeds contempt.

• Four eyes see more than two.

• Friendless is poor.

• Happy is he whose friends were born before him.

• Не is a good friend who speaks well of us behind our back.

• Hit him again, he has no friends.

• Lend your money and lose your friend.

• No friendship is strong that owes its rise to a pot.

• Old friends and old wine are best.

• Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.

• One body is nobody.

• One man does not make a team.

• Short reckonings make long friends.

• The voice of one man is the voice of none.

• The way to have a friend is to be one.

• There is safety in numbers.

• They are rich who have true friends.

• Sudden friendship, sure repentance.

• United we stand, divided we fall.

• One fool makes many.

• When a friend asks there is no tomorrow.

• Woe to him that is alone.

• A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure.

• A child that’s bom must be kept.

• A tree must be bens while young.

• As the twig is bent, so will it grow.

• Care he hath (has) that children will keep.

• Children are poor man’s riches.

• Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.

• Fair in the cradle and foul in the saddle.

• Give a child his will and he’ll turn ill.

• Happy is he that is happy in his children.

• Не that has no children knows not what love is.

• As the old cock crows, so doth (does) the young.

• Like father, like son.

• Little children, little sorrow, big children, big sorrow.

• Little pitchers have long ears.

• Many a good cow hath (has) an evil calf.

• No good building without good foundation.

• Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes.

• One chick keeps a hen busy.

• Spare the rod and spoil the child.

• The best colt needs breeding.

• The black crow thinks her own birds white.

• The child is father of the man.

• When children stand quiet they have done some ill.

• A bad shearer never had a good sickle.

• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

• A bald head is soon shaven.

• A cat in gloves catches no mice.

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

• A good workman is known by his chips.

• A lazy man is the beggar’s brother.

• A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.

• A man can do по more than he can.

• A rolling stone gathers no moss.

• An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.

• As is the workman, so is the work.

• Better wear out shoes than sheets.

• Business before pleasure.

• Business is business.

• Business is the salt of life.

• Business makes a man as well as tries him.

• Don’t teach the dog to bark.

• Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

• Every man to his trade.

• Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

• Не has got the fiddle but not the stick.

• Не knows the water well who has waded through it.

• Не that will not work, shall not eat.

• Не that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.

• Не who begins many things finishes but few.

• Не works best who knows his trade.

• Head cook and bottle-washer.

• His foot is too large for his shoe.

• He’ll eat till he sweats and work till he freezes.

• Idle folk have the least leisure.

• Idle folk lack no excuses.

• Idleness is the mother of all evil.

• If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.

• Let the cobbler stick to his last.

• Jack of all trades and master of none.

• Lazy folks take the most pains.

• Many hands make light work.

• Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.

• No cross, no crown.

• Practice is the best master.

•No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.

• Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.

• Practice makes perfect.

• Repetition is the mother of learning.

• Rome was not built in a day.

• So much to do, so little done.

• The hardest work is to do nothing.

• Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.

• The best fish swim near the bottom.

• The dog that trots about finds a bone.

• The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

• The wheel that turns gathers no rust.

• The tree is known by its fruit.

• The race is got by the running.

• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

• The tongue of idle persons is never idle.

• What is a workman without his tools?

• What man has done man can do.

• What we do willingly is easy.

• What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

• Where every hand fleeces, the sheep go naked.

•Wit once bought is worth twice taught.

•You cannot bake without flour.

•You cannot make bricks without straw.

• A patient man wins the day.

• A watched pot never boils.

• All lay loads on a willing horse.

• Constant dripping wears away the stone.

• Forebearance is no acquittance.

• Everything comes to him who waits.

• Не that endures is not overcome.

• If he cannot bite, he scratches.

• If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.

• It’s dogged that does it.

• Little by little and bit by bit.

• Little strokes fell great oaks.

• Patience is a plaster for all sores.

• Patience is virtue.

• Seek and you shall find.

• Slow and steady wins the race.

• The last drop makes the cup run over.

• The last straw breaks the camel’s back.

• What can’t be cured, must be endured.

• Where there’s a will there’s a way.

• With time and patience the leaf of mulberry bush becomes satin.

• Zeal in good case is commendable.

• An early riser is sure to be in luck.

• Early to bed and early to rise makes people healthy and wealthy and wise.

• Не that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.

• Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

• First come, first served.

• Не that rises late must trot all the day.

• Не that will thrive, must rise at five.

• Early start makes easy stages.

• Не who sleeps catches no fish.

• The early bird catches the worm.

• The early bird gets the late one’s breakfast.

• A cat falls on its legs.

• A clean hand wants no washing.

• All truths are not to be told.

• Better suffer the truth than prosper by falsehood.

• Cheats never prosper.

• Face to face, the truth comes out.

• Не that deceives is ever suspected.

• Не that will steal an egg will steal an ox.

• Liars need long memories.

• Long ways, long lies.

• Murder will out.

• Nothing hurts more than truth.

• Nothing is stolen without hands.

• Those who live on lies choke on truth.

• Travellers lie by authority.

• Truth can be blamed, but cannot be shamed.

• Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.

• Truth filters through stone.

• Truth is stranger than fiction.

• Truth lies at the bottom of the well.

• Works of darkness hate the light.

• You cannot hide an eel in a sack.

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

• Every cloud has a silver lining.

• Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

• Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

• If ifs and answere pots and pans.

• If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.

• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

• It is a long lane that has no turning.

• It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.

• Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.

• While there is life there is hope.

• A burnt child dreads the fire.

• A good marksman may miss.

• A horse stumbles that has four legs.

• A miss is as good as a mile.

• He that never climbed, never fell.

• Even Homer sometimes nods.

• Every bean has its black.

• Every man has a fool in his sleeve.

• It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

• Learn wisdom by the follies of others.

• Many stumble at a straw and leap over a block.

• Once bitten, twice shy.

• One man’s fault is another man’s lesson.

• The scalded dog fears cold water.

• То err is human.

• A penny saved is a penny gained.

• Better bend than break.

• Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.

• Beware of a silent dog and still water.

• Prudence looks before as well as behind.

• Burn not your house to frighten the mouse away.

• Caution is the parent of safety.

• Don’t cut the bough you are standing on.

• Don’t empty the baby out with the bath water.

• Don’t make a rod for your own back.

• Don’t play with fire.

• Fast bind, fast find.

• Forewarned, forearmed.

• Keep something for a rainy day.

• Never buy a pig in a poke.

• Plenty is no plague.

• Prevention is better than cure.

• Seeing is believing.

• Store is no sore.

• The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.

• When in doubt do nowt (nothing).

• You can’t be too careful.

• Cut your coat according to your cloth.

• Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

• Enough is as good as a feast.

• Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.

• The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.

• Не runs far that never returns.

• Leave well alone.

• Stretch your legs according to your cover let.

•Too much pudding will choke the dog.

•Too much water drowned the miller.