More American Proverbs
- There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets.
- If it were not for eating, the back might wear gold.
- There’s a pot gold at the end of the rainbow.
- The face is the index of the mind, but appearances are deceitful.
- Honesty is praised and left to starve.
- Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
- The king’s cheese goes half away in parings.
- A dirty floor means a busy stove.
- Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
- In a united family, hapiness springs up of itself.
- If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
- Above all nations is humanity.
- Dig the well before you are thirsty.
- The tail can’t shake the dog.
- The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.
- Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
- If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.
- Anytime means no time.
- Adversity flatters no man.
- There’s more than one way to beat the devil around the bush.
- Your ignorance is your worst enemy.
- Clean your own doorstep before you clean someone else’s.
- Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
- Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass.
- Contempt is the best return for scurrility.
- Cows can catch no rabbits.
- An educated fool is dangerous.