Proverbi e detti inglesi

 

- Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic

- Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good

- Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand

- Stupidity got us into this mess - why can’t it get us out?

- Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand

- Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just
sit there

- Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason

- An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist
fears that this is true

- There is always death and taxes; however death doesn’t get worse
every year

- People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
that Benjamin Franklin said it first

- It’s easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them

- I don’t mind going anywhere as long as it’s an interesting path

- Anything free is worth what you pay for it

- Indecision is the key to flexibility

- It hurts to be on the cutting edge

- If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is

- I don’t get even, I get odder

- In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday

- I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got around to it

- Dijon vu - the same mustard as before

- I am a nutritional overachiever

- My inferiority complex is not as good as yours

- I am having an out of money experience

- I plan on living forever. So far, so good

- I am in shape. Round is a shape

- Practice safe eating - always use condiments

- A day without sunshine is like night

- I have kleptomania, but when it gets really bad, I take something
for it

- If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws

- I am not a perfectionist. My parents were, though

- Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but
eventually you find a hair stylist you like

- You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking
chair that you once got from a roller coaster

- One of life’s mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make you gain five pounds

- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at
the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
tempting moment

- Time may be a great healer, but it’s also a lousy beautician

- Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever

- Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone

- Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show

- You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing

27 January 2007 | Archivio, Inglesi | Comments

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