Nationality: English Proverbs and sayings. Page 1

The captain knows the state of the ship, but the bilge rats know more.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

You can't make bricks without straw.

A book not read by its cover. On the cover you can't judge the content.

Youth young not for the future.

If you'll scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
If you scratch my back, I scratch yours.

The good - the wrong side of evil.

Don't make a rod for your own back.
Don't make a rod for your own back.

What is important is not intentions that change easily, but opportunities that cannot be changed so easily.
Important is not intentions that are easy to change, and Important opportunities that just can't change.
(It does not matter what the intentions are easy to change, and that the ability to change so it is simply impossible. )

Fine words butter no parsnips.
Beautiful words Pasternak will not pomylili.

Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
One volunteer is worth twenty enforced.

A stitch in time saves nine.
A stitch in time, eliminates the need for the nine later.