He who boasts of his descent is like a potato: the best part is underground.

More American Proverbs

• 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.
• If you don’t know what to do, don’t do anything.
• Dirt is dirtiest upon the fairest spot.
• Do a good deed every day.
• Do what you ought, come what may.
• Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
• Don’t drown yourself to save a drowning man.
• He who boasts of his descent is like a potato: the best part is underground.
• 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.