The first attempt is the most difficult.

More American Proverbs

• The tail can’t shake the dog.
• The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.
• Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
• If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.
• There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets.
• If it were not for eating, the back might wear gold.
• There’s a pot gold at the end of the rainbow.
• 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.
• Abuse is like a god that destroys his master.
• Accidents will happen in the best of families.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do as you would be done by.
• Answer a fool according to his folly.
• Anytime means no time.
• Adversity flatters no man.
• There’s more than one way to beat the devil around the bush.
• Your ignorance is your worst enemy.
• Clean your own doorstep before you clean someone else’s.
• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.