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English Funny Sayings
‘A pleasing appearance is stronger than power’
English Proverb
‘A true wife is her husband’s flower of beauty,’
English Proverb
‘A young woman married to an old man must behave like an old woman’
English Proverb
‘All brides are child brides in their mother’s eyes’
English Proverb
‘Always sweep where your mother-in-law looks’
English Proverb
‘Choose a good mother’s daughter, though her father were the Devil’
English Proverb
‘even dashes up from the sea’
English Proverb
‘Every woman keeps a corner in her heart where she is always twenty-one’
English Proverb
‘If you take the child by the hand, you take the mother by the heart’
English Proverb
‘It is not in the nature of the female tongue to be silent’
English Proverb
‘June brides, January mothers’
English Proverb
‘Little girls shouldn’t ask questions’
English Proverb
‘Marriage and hanging are determined by destiny.’
English Proverb
‘Onions can make even heirs and widows weep’
English Proverb
‘Seven years is not too long for a pumpkin vine to start bearing fruit’
English Proverb
‘The woman who dresses in silk stays at home’.
English Proverb
‘There’s only one thing in the world better than a good wife … no wife’
English Proverb
‘Tis better to d and lost, than never to d at all.
English Proverb
‘When a woman is speaking, listen to what her eyes say.’
English Proverb
‘Whores affect not you but your money.’
English Proverb
‘Yours truly’, is not always true.
English Proverb
’Tis a good farthing that saves a penny.
English Proverb
’Tis hard to hold a tiger by the tail.
English Proverb
’Tis not work that kills, but worry.
English Proverb
’Tis the company that makes the feast.
English Proverb
’Tis the early bird that gets the worm.
English Proverb
A bad broom leaves a dirty room.
English Proverb
A bad day hath a good night.
English Proverb
A bad excuse is better than none.
English Proverb
A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverb
A bad shearer never had a good sickle.
English Proverb
A bad wife likes to see her husband’s heels turned to the door.
English Proverb
A bad workman always blames his tools.
English Proverb
A bad workman blames his tools.
English Proverb
A barking dog never bites.
English Proverb
A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
English Proverb
A beautiful woman stands on the palm of the hand.
English Proverb
A beggar can never be bankrupt.
English Proverb
A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.
English Proverb
A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.
English Proverb
Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
African Proverb
Many kiss the child for the mother’s sake.
African Proverb
Many lick before they bite.
African Proverb
Many students have become kings or queens, but no teachers have.
Taiwanese Proverb
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
African Proverb
Many things are too bad to be blessed, and too good to be cursed.
Nicaraguan Proverb
Many who go out for wool come back shorn.
African Proverb
Marriages are made in Heaven.
African Proverb
Marry first for wealth, then for love.
African Proverb
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
African Proverb
Marry the first time for love, the second time for money.
African Proverb
Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.
African Proverb
Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
African Proverb
May as well be here we are as where we are.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you.
Native American Cherokee Proverb
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.
African Proverb
May your every wish be granted.
African Proverb
May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.
African Proverb
Measure three times before you cut once.
African Proverb
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
African Proverb
Might is not right.
Holland Proverb
Might maketh not right.
African Proverb
Misfortunes do not flourish on one path, they grow everywhere.
Pawnee Proverb
Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men.
Pawnee Proverb
Money is like the waters of a swelling river, it flows away.
Ga Proverb
Money is power.
African Proverb
Money is the key that opens every door.
African Proverb
Money is the root of all evil.
African Proverb
Money makes the wretched seem virtuous.
African Proverb
Money speaks in a language all nations understand.
African Proverb
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
African Proverb
Moss grows on a lying stone.
Khakas Proverb
Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
Assiniboine Proverb
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are made of the same crooked rib.
Chechen Proverb
Mothers cuddle and play with children, but women without children stay glum.
Sinhalese Proverb
Much meat, much disease.
African Proverb
Nature is a good mother.
African Proverb
Nature surpasses nurture.
African Proverb
Need teaches a naked woman weaving.
Chechen Proverb
Need will have its course.
African Proverb
