More American Proverbs
- If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.
- Destiny leads the willing but drags the unwilling.
- If you don’t believe in cooperation, watch what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off.
- Distrust a prairie-dog and fix it.
- Do it or dye!
- Don’t cast your pearls before swine.
- Don’t clean your fish before you catch it.
- Don’t fan the flame that supports the fire.
- There’s no fun in physics, but a good deal of physics in fun.
- The first attempt is the most difficult.
- Your whole destiny is involved in the attitude you take toward your sin.
- The happiest place in the world to live is within one’s income.
- Confide not in him who has deceived you.
- Count no man successful until he is dead.
- Credit is suspicion asleep.
- Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.
- Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
- A donkey is but a donkey though laden with gold.
- The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
- A duck won’t bite you.
- From middle age on, everything of interest is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
- There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.
- Dogs delight to bark and bite for God has made them so.
- A live dog is better than a dead lion.
- Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
- The more responsibilities a man assumes, the more likely he is to meet them.
- A diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife.