Don’t buy a cow to get a glass of milk.

More American Proverbs

• Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.
• A fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise man can answer in an hour.
• A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.
• A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice.
• The loudest bell does not always have the sweetest tone.
• The more acquaintances, the more danger.
• The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.
• Darkness is the owl’s desire.
• The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
• Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be at least far out.
• Dignity is one thing that can’t be preserved in alcohol.
• If you catch fish, you’re a fisherman.
• An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
• There are more ways to kill a dog than by choking him on peanut butter.
• If the goat would not jump around, she wouldn’t break her leg.
• Don’t hide your light under a bushel.
• If a man is right, he cannot be too radical; if wrong, he cannot be too conservative.
• 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.