American Proverbs (280 Proverbs)
- You can shear a sheep many times but you can skin him only once.
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- Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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- It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.
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- When a man say him do not mind, then him mind.
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- Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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- You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
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- A person who talks about his inferiors hasn't any.
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- A man is as big as the things that made him mad.
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- A man chases a woman until she catches him.
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- A man can't do more than he can do. What says Don Ferdinando?
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- A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.
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- A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
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- A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
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- A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
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- A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse.
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- A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
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- After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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- A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
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- A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.
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- A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago.
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- A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
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- A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
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- A miss is as good as a mile.
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- A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
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- A man never becomes an orator if he has something to say.
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- You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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- We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.
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- The river is my brother for it carries my canoe.
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- Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey.
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- Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
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- Man is greater than the tools he invents.
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- If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
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- Drink and frankfurters for a dime; kill a man before his time.
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- Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
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- Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
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- You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
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- Use your wit as a shield, not as a dagger.
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- The rich get richer, and the poor get babies.
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- Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of your widow's next husband.
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- Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.
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- Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe.
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- If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.
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- Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.
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- Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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- Don't cry till you are out of the wood.
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- You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
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- Use it up, make do, or do without.
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- The receiver is as bad as the thief.
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- Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.
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- No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
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- Living in worry invites death in a hurry.
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- If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
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- Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
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- Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
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- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
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- When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
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- Try the ice before you venture on it.
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- The reason some people are stingy is also the reason they are rich.
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- Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
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- No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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- Live and learn, die and forget it all.
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- If you cut down the trees you will find the wolf.
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- Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
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- An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
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- Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.
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- When you see gossamer flying, be sure the air is drying.
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- Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.
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- The real owners of the land are not yet born.
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- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
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- Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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- Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
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- If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
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- Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away.
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- Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
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- Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
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- When the white man wins, it is a battle.
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- There's no advice like father's -- even if you don't take it.
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- The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
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- Step on a crack break your mother's back.
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- Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
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