More American Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you.
- Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.
- Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- The show must go on.