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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

What is the longest word in the English language?

Smiles. (There a mile between the first and last letter. )

Riddles

What is the only 6-letter word in the English language that gives you 12 when you take away 1?

Dozens.

Riddles

An Englishman's home is his castle/A man's home is his castle

Proverbs and old sayings British about home, man, old, olderness

The law is an ass. From English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist

Proverbs and old sayings British about writers, law, old, olderness

Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

Proverbs and old sayings British about poets, life, old, olderness

The English are a nation of shopkeepers.

Proverbs and old sayings about nation

The Peerage is the Englishman's Bible.

Proverbs and old sayings British

One Englishman can beat three Frenchmen.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Do you speak English?

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about magic

Do you speak English? (Meaning, Have you got any money? )

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about sun

The English always credit the rest of us with the qualities they don't need themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about need

The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil

A scots mist will weet an englishman to the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The englishman greets, the irishman sleeps, but the scotchman gangs till he gets it.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

An Englishman's word is his bond.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Proverbs and old sayings English about companies, man

A snow year, a rich year.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth