The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.

More American Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• A diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife.
• A stout heart crushes some ill luck.
• All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.
• The longest mile is the last mile home.
• It costs something to be a Christian, but it costs more to be a sinner.
• A divided man makes an unhappy spirit.
• A woman can’t drive her husband, but she can lead him.
• If you want to know the value of money, try borrowing some.
• A donkey is but a donkey though laden with gold.
• The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.