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.