English Proverb

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

All is fair in love and war.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

Despair doubles our strength.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Two's a company three's a crowd.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.

Children should be seen and not heard.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Boys will be boys.