English Proverbs/Sayings

A closed mind is like a closed book.
Airport Security, Stripsearch Department (TSA)
All, that glitters, is not gold.
Always laugh, when you can! It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
Any society, that would give up their liberty to obtain temporary security,
deserves neither and loses both. - Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny gained/earned.
April showers bring May flowers.
A rage long in building is long in cooling. (Mike Rivero)
A right deferred is a right denied.
A stiff/hard dick has no conscience. (takes any woman to bed regardless)
A stranger is a friend, whom you just haven't met yet. (old Irish saying)
A tune, that gets stuck in your head, is called an earworm.
Be a flirt, lift your shirt!
Beer before wine, you'll be fine; wine after liquor, you'll be sicker.
Better be safe, than sorry!
Blood is thicker, than water. (= The ties of family run deeper, than any other kind of relationship.
      We'll often do things for members of our family, we'd never dream of doing for anyone else.)
Born to party, forced to work.
Damn right, I'm good in bed: I can sleep for days!
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Do as I say, not as I do! (I may not follow the rules myself, so don't copy that, just do, what I'm telling you)
Don't blame yourself! Let ME do it!
Don't drive faster, than your guardian angel can fly! (from a bumper sticker)
Don't get mad, get even! (even the score, pay back, retaliate, avenge)
Don't just applaud, throw money!
Don't mess with Texas!
Don't steal! The government hates competition.
Do you wear a hat, so you know, which end to wipe? (a segged olyan, mint a fejed)
Dress to feel good, not to look good!
Easy does it.
Err on the side of caution! (rather be cautious, even if being too cautious will turn out to be a mistake later)
Every breath is a blessing. (appreciate life, because life is short)
Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you're abusing the privilege.
Everything, I say, is fully substantiated by my own opinion.
Failure is not an option.
FBI = Female-Body Inspector
Fight a good fight, die a good death. (if nothing else remains/is left to do)
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!
Forgiveness is a process. (don't expect it right away)
Fuck the police! They can't shoot us all.
Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, but give a man a fishing pole and you'll feed him for life! (from the Bible: Jesus said it)
God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. (re: gays)
God must love stupid people, he created so many of you.
Good point. Now shut up!
If you sprinkle, when you tinkle, clean up after yourself! (bathroom graffiti)
He's barking up the wrong tree. (he sweettalks the wrong person)
I'd listen to you, but ignoring you is so much easier.
I don't need sex. The government fucks me every day. (T-shirt)
I have multiple personalities and none of them likes you.
I have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
I'm multi-talented/multi-tasking: I can talk and piss you off at the same time.
I'm not a gynecologist. But I'll take a look.
I'm not bossy. I just know, what you should be doing.
I'm not hard of hearing. I'm trying hard not to hear you.
I'm not in heat, so get off my ass! (leave me alone)
I'm retired. But I work part-time as a pain in the ass!
I'm retired. Go around me!
I'm so old, I can laugh, cough, sneeze, fart and pee all at the same time.
I never make mistakes. I thought, I did once. But I was mistaken.
In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.
In for a penny, in for a pound. (aki A-t mond, mondjon B-t is)
It's hard to show, I care, since I don't.
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. —
If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Mark Twain)
If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask SOMEBODY ELSE! (T-shirt)
It's not ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), it's multitasking.
It's not easy being the perfect bitch.
It's not easy to be green. (Kermit, the frog and the Grinch
It's the golden rule: Those, who have the gold, rule.
Jesus loves you! But I'm his favorite.
Join the Army! Visit exotic places, meet interesting people, then kill them!
Keep staring at me! I might do a trick. (leszerelni azt, aki nagyon bamul)
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer! (because you need to watch your enemies more)
Lead me not into temptation! I can find it myself.
Lefties do it right.
Let's hope, intelligent life exists in space. I'm so lonely here.
Life is not to be feared, but to be understood.
Like charges repel. (they don't attract, physics)
Mess with me and you mess with the whole trailer park!
Might makes right. (the arrogance of if you have the power, then you can do anything)
My anger management class pisses me off.
My bark is worse, than my bite. (Don't worry!)
My parent said, I could be anything. So I became an asshole.
Never miss a good chance to shut up!
No army can stop an idea, whose time has come.
Not perfect, but so close, it scares me. (I'm not perfect...)
My cooking hasn't killed anyone yet.
No good deed goes unpunished. (a hálátlanságról, backstabbing, etc.)
No money, no honey.
No need to yell, I still won't listen.
No pain, no gain.
No risk, no reward.
Old is gold.
One man's loss is another man's gain.
People like you are the reason, people like me need medication.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Perfection is not an accident.
Pissing off the whole planet one person at a time.
Practice makes perfect.
Present company excepted. (A jelenlevők kivételek.)
Pride goes before a fall.
Quality work takes time. (Jó munkához idő kell.)
Real men don't cut and run. (nem futamodnak meg)
Same sh it, different day.
Sex Instructor, First Lesson Free! (ad)
Sarcasm: just one more service, I offer.
Save money and money will save you!
Save time: see it my way!
Snitches get stitches. (as a reply to why you can't tell, who it was - stitches: your wounds getting stitched up/sewn together in the hospital, from getting beaten up for snitching)
Socialism: a great idea, till you run out of other people's money.
Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes!
Superstition is the religion of fools.
Talk is cheap. (=get it in writing, don't take it for granted)
Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer. (until you mean business)
Tell your boobs to stop looking at my eyes!
The best schedule is not having one.
The end justifies the means. (A cél szentesíti az eszközt.)
The more, the merrier. (The more people we are, the more company we have, the better.)
The roots of a family tree begin with the love of two hearts.
The toughest lift of all is your ass off the couch.
The truth is often a bitter pill to swallow.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Things, you say, are called opinions. Things, I say, are called facts.
To the victor belong the spoils. (a zsákmány)
To err is human, to blame it on someone else shows management potential.
Trust arrives on foot, but departs on horseback. (Hard to gain, but easy to lose.)
Two dicks with no chicks don't mix. (anti-gay)
Two wrongs don't make a right.
United we stand, divided we fall.
War is mass murder wrapped in a pretty flag. (Mike Rivero)
What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing?! (you just said something stupid)
What goes around, comes around.
What part of no didn't you understand?
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty.
When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.
When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
Women — can't live with them, can't live without them.
Yet despite the look on my face you're still talking.
You are the choices, you make.
You can be the hero or the zero.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
You look like I need another drink.
You're a bull in a china shop. (you're so careless)
Your lips keep moving, but all, I hear, is blah, blah, blah.
You show me yours and I'll show you mine. (eredetileg: nemi szerveket, de átvitt értelemben titokcserére értik)