English Proverb or Saying Quotes

When the fox preacheth then beware your geese.

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon

It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.

Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Smile pretty and watch your back

Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

We won't get fooled again!

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.