Constant dripping wears away stone.

More American Proverbs

• The fates lead the willing man; an unwilling man they drag.
• The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
• Hunger finds no fault with moldy corn.
• A good friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying “that was fucking awesome”.
• Always a valley before a hill.
• In the boy see the man.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness.
• Deep calls unto deep.
• The road to ruin is kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense.
• Accident is the mother of invention.
• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are different things.
• The young may die; the old must die.
• A little doubt saves many a mistake.
• Don’t buy a cow to get a glass of milk.
• A flow of words is no proof of being easy enough.
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.
• Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
• It is better to pay and have a little left than to have much and be always in debt.
• The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.
• It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
• Constant dripping wears away stone.
• A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.
• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
• A dog returns to where he has been fed.
• Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
• A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.