A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.

More American Proverbs

• Do not look for wrong and evil.
• Don’t ask a man for a favour before he has had his lunch.
• If the defendant is silent the jury will think him guilty.
• There is only one blasphemy, and that is injustice.
• A wise man learns by the experiences of others; an ordinary man learns by his own experience; a fool learns by nobody’s experiences.
• Your sins will find you out.
• The giver makes the gift precious.
• It is better to be a live rabbit than a tiger.
• Confidence of success is almost success.
• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
• An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
• Danger begets caution.
• Death keeps no calendar.
• Absence kills a little love but makes the big ones grow.
• Different strokes for different folks.
• Folks spend their health to acquire wealth and later spend their wealth in an effort to regain their health.
• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
• An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions.
• A fellow can do anything if he lists.
• Adversity does best discover virtue.
• A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
• It is better to tell your money where to go than to ask where it went.
• Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
• A swift eater, a swift worker.
• A true wife is her husband’s flower of beauty.
• A guilty dog always barks.
• The more you eat, the more you want.