Tuesday, January 18, 2022
American Proverbs (280 Proverbs)
- Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
(American Proverb)
- It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.
(American Proverb)
- You can shear a sheep many times but you can skin him only once.
(American Proverb)
- When a man say him do not mind, then him mind.
(American Proverb)
- Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
(American Proverb)
- You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
(American Proverb)
- A man chases a woman until she catches him.
(American Proverb)
- A man can't do more than he can do. What says Don Ferdinando?
(American Proverb)
- A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.
(American Proverb)
- A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
(American Proverb)
- A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
(American Proverb)
- A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
(American Proverb)
- A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse.
(American Proverb)
- A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
(American Proverb)
- After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
(American Proverb)
- A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
(American Proverb)
- A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.
(American Proverb)
- A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago.
(American Proverb)
- A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
(American Proverb)
- A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
(American Proverb)
- A miss is as good as a mile.
(American Proverb)
- A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
(American Proverb)
- A man never becomes an orator if he has something to say.
(American Proverb)
- A person who talks about his inferiors hasn't any.
(American Proverb)
- A man is as big as the things that made him mad.
(American Proverb)
- Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
(American Proverb)
- You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
(American Proverb)
- Use your wit as a shield, not as a dagger.
(American Proverb)
- The rich get richer, and the poor get babies.
(American Proverb)
- Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of your widow's next husband.
(American Proverb)
- Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.
(American Proverb)
- Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe.
(American Proverb)
- If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.
(American Proverb)
- Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.
(American Proverb)
- Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
(American Proverb)
- Don't cry till you are out of the wood.
(American Proverb)
- You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
(American Proverb)
- Use it up, make do, or do without.
(American Proverb)
- The receiver is as bad as the thief.
(American Proverb)
- Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.
(American Proverb)
- No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
(American Proverb)
- Living in worry invites death in a hurry.
(American Proverb)
- If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
(American Proverb)
- Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
(American Proverb)
- Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
(American Proverb)
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
(American Proverb)
- 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.
(American Proverb)
- Try the ice before you venture on it.
(American Proverb)
- The reason some people are stingy is also the reason they are rich.
(American Proverb)
- Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
(American Proverb)
- No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
(American Proverb)
- Live and learn, die and forget it all.
(American Proverb)
- If you cut down the trees you will find the wolf.
(American Proverb)
- Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
(American Proverb)
- An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
(American Proverb)
- Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.
(American Proverb)
- When you see gossamer flying, be sure the air is drying.
(American Proverb)
- Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.
(American Proverb)
- The real owners of the land are not yet born.
(American Proverb)
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
(American Proverb)
- Never miss a good chance to shut up.
(American Proverb)
- Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
(American Proverb)
- If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
(American Proverb)
- Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away.
(American Proverb)
- Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
(American Proverb)
- Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
(American Proverb)
- When the white man wins, it is a battle.
(American Proverb)
- There's no advice like father's -- even if you don't take it.
(American Proverb)
- The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
(American Proverb)
- Step on a crack break your mother's back.
(American Proverb)
- Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
(American Proverb)
- It's as difficult to win love as to wrap salt in pine needles.
(American Proverb)
- If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.
(American Proverb)
- Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
(American Proverb)
- All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.
(American Proverb)
- Don't marry without love, but don't love without reason.
(American Proverb)
- When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything:
(American Proverb)
- There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.
(American Proverb)
- The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
(American Proverb)
- Stand up, cent, let the dollar sit down.
(American Proverb)
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