Don’t ask a man for a favour before he has had his lunch.

More American Proverbs

• The fool wanders; the wise man travels.
• Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
• Commerce flourishes by circumstances precarious.
• A great fortune is a great servitude.
• Industry is fortune’s right hand and frugality her left.
• Crosses are the ladders to heaven.
• Ignorance is bliss.
• The outward forms the inward man reveal – we guess the pulp before we cut the peel.
• The receiver is as bad as the thief.
• Abundance, like want, ruins many.
• The unknown is always great.
• A little bit of powder and a little bit of paint make a woman look like what she ain’t.
• A fault confessed is half-redressed.
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
• There is many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.
• If luck is with you, even your ox will give birth to a calf.
• In great action, men show themselves as they ought to be, in small action as they are.
• 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.