American Proverbs (280 Proverbs)
- 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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- You can shear a sheep many times but you can skin him only once.
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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 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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- 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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- You made your bed, now lie in it.
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- What a story these old walls could tell.
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- The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon.
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- The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
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- Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
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- Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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- In God we trust; all others pay cash.
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- Every man has one black patch, and some have two.
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- Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop.
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- You don't put robbers to work in a bank.
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- We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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- The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.
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- The child is the father of the man.
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- One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
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- Man is the only animal who can be skinned twice.
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- In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
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- Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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- Bulls make money and bears make money, but hogs just get slaughtered.
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- You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
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- We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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- The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
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- The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
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- Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the less hypocritical.
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- Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
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- If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
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- Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die.
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- Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned.
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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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