American

• A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
• The fates lead the willing man; an unwilling man they drag.
• Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
• Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.
• The face is the index of the mind, but appearances are deceitful.
• Your ignorance is your worst enemy.
• Here today, gone tomorrow.
• A drunk man will sober up, but a damn fool never.
• The first attempt is the most difficult.
• A diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife.
• The fool wanders; the wise man travels.
• Your sins will find you out.
• It is better to tell your money where to go than to ask where it went.
• Christmas comes, but once a year is enough.
• Homely in the cradle, pretty at the table.
• The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
• All that shines is not silver.
• The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
• It is better to pay and have a little left than to have much and be always in debt.
• A fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise man can answer in an hour.
• Honesty is praised and left to starve.
• Clean your own doorstep before you clean someone else’s.
• The garment of peace never fades.
• Honour your father and your mother.
• Your whole destiny is involved in the attitude you take toward your sin.
• A stout heart crushes some ill luck.
• Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
• The giver makes the gift precious.
• Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
• Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.
• Hope of gain lessens pain.
• It is better to be safe than sorry.
• It is better to be lied about than to lie.
• Hunger finds no fault with moldy corn.
• The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.
• A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.
• Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
• The greatest art is the art of life.
• It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
• The happiest place in the world to live is within one’s income.
• All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.
• Commerce flourishes by circumstances precarious.
• It is better to be a live rabbit than a tiger.
• A swift eater, a swift worker.
• The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.
• Common sense is very uncommon with a lot of people.
• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never her age.
• The higher you climb, the harder you may fall.
• A good friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying “that was fucking awesome”.
• It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
• A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice.
• The king’s cheese goes half away in parings.
• Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass.
• Comparisons make enemies of our friends.
• All things were once impossible.
• Confide not in him who has deceived you.
• The longest mile is the last mile home.
• A great fortune is a great servitude.
• Confidence of success is almost success.
• A true wife is her husband’s flower of beauty.
• It is an easy matter for a stingy man to get rich – but what’s the use?
• It is a man’s challenge to go as far as he can on the right road.
• The longest day will come to an end.
• Consent to common custom, but not to common folly.
• Always a valley before a hill.
• Constant dripping wears away stone.
• The loudest bell does not always have the sweetest tone.
• A dirty floor means a busy stove.
• Contempt is the best return for scurrility.
• Industry need not wish.
• Always put your best foot forward.
• Count no man successful until he is dead.
• It costs something to be a Christian, but it costs more to be a sinner.
• Industry is fortune’s right hand and frugality her left.
• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
• A guilty dog always barks.
• Don’t meddle in others’ affairs unless you want your own nose scraped a little.
• Courage without conduct is like a ship without ballast.
• The man who loves to argue is left without friends.
• Courtesy is the password to safety.
• In the boy see the man.
• A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.
• The more acquaintances, the more danger.
• Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
• Cows can catch no rabbits.
• Ambition is like hunting for whales – sometimes you lose them.
• In politics, a man must learn to rise above principle.
• Credit is suspicion asleep.
• A divided man makes an unhappy spirit.
• Crosses are the ladders to heaven.
• An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
• The more you eat, the more you want.
• In fair weather prepare for foul.
• Cultivate friends who pray for you, not prey upon you.
• The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
• Cunning is the ape of wisdom.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
• The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.
• In a united family, hapiness springs up of itself.
• An educated fool is dangerous.
• The obvious choice is usually a quick regret.
• Custom surpasses nature.
• Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.
• A woman can’t drive her husband, but she can lead him.
• Ignorance is bliss.
• Danger begets caution.
• If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you.
• A house without books is like a room without windows.
• The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
• An egg today is worth a hen tomorrow.
• Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.
• The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness.
• A dog returns to where he has been fed.
• Darkness is the owl’s desire.
• If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
• An empty sack won’t stand alone.
• The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.
• Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling.
• Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
• If you want to know the value of money, try borrowing some.
• The outward forms the inward man reveal – we guess the pulp before we cut the peel.
• Death keeps no calendar.
• Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.
• Deceit is a lie which wears a smile.
• If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
• Death to the wolf is life to the lamb.
• If you want something done and done well, do it yourself.
• Deep calls unto deep.
• Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
• The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
• Above all nations is humanity.
• The real owners of the land are not yet born.
• An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
• Deed done is well begun.
• If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.
• A donkey is but a donkey though laden with gold.
• The receiver is as bad as the thief.
• Absence kills a little love but makes the big ones grow.
• Despair is the conclusion of fools.
• If you look back, you’ll soon be going that way.
• Delays can be dangerous.
• A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.
• Democracy is better than tyranny.
• The road to ruin is kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense.
• A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
• Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be at least far out.
• Dig the well before you are thirsty.
• If you have wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
• The saddest dog sometimes wags its tail.
• A drowning man grabs at a straw.
• Destiny leads the willing but drags the unwilling.
• The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
• Abundance, like want, ruins many.
• Different strokes for different folks.
• The show must go on.
• If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.
• The sleeping fox catches no chickens.
• An old dog does not bark for nothing.
• Dime is money, as the Dutchman says.
• Accident is the mother of invention.
• If you don’t know what to do, don’t do anything.
• Dignity is one thing that can’t be preserved in alcohol.
• The tail can’t shake the dog.
• Abuse is like a god that destroys his master.
• Diligence is the mistress of success.
• The tougher the fight, the sweeter the triumph.
• If you don’t believe in cooperation, watch what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off.
• A duck won’t bite you.
• The unknown is always great.
• Folks spend their health to acquire wealth and later spend their wealth in an effort to regain their health.
• An old friend wears well.
• Disappointment hurts more than pain.
• The weaker the argument, the stronger the words.
• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
• If you dance, you must pay the piper.
• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are different things.
• Dirt is dirtiest upon the fairest spot.
• If you catch fish, you’re a fisherman.
• The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.
• Accidents will happen in the best of families.
• If you can’t say something good about someone, come sit right here by me.
• The wise man keeps his own counsel.
• Distrust a prairie-dog and fix it.
• From middle age on, everything of interest is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
• A little bit of powder and a little bit of paint make a woman look like what she ain’t.
• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
• A farmer on his knees is higher than a gentleman on his legs.
• Distance is the best remedy against an evil-disposed man.
• Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
• The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down.
• If you can’t lick `em, join `em.
• The young may die; the old must die.
• Do a good deed every day.
• An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
• Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do as you would be done by.
• There are always more fish in the pond.
• If you can’t help, don’t hinder.
• Do it or dye!
• There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.
• A fault confessed is half-redressed.
• Do not look for wrong and evil.
• An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions.
• Do not trust flatterers.
• Getting things done is largely a matter of getting things started.
• There are many witty men whose brains can’t fill their bellies.
• If you are a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs.
• A little doubt saves many a mistake.
• Do what you ought, come what may.
• There are more ways to kill a dog than by choking him on peanut butter.
• If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.
• Answer a fool according to his folly.
• There are other fish in the sea.
• There are two sides to every story — and then there’s the truth.
• Don’t cast your pearls before swine.
• Dogs delight to bark and bite for God has made them so.
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
• Don’t ask a man for a favour before he has had his lunch.
• A fellow can do anything if he lists.
• If the shoe fits, put it on.
• Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
• There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don’t know what’s happening.
• Any port in a storm.
• Don’t buy a cow to get a glass of milk.
• Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
• If the goat would not jump around, she wouldn’t break her leg.
• There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets.
• Anytime means no time.
• If the cap fits, wear it.
• Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.
• Don’t clean your fish before you catch it.
• A live dog is better than a dead lion.
• There is many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.
• If the defendant is silent the jury will think him guilty.
• Adversity does best discover virtue.
• There is no accounting about tastes.
• Don’t cry over spilt milk.
• Appearances can be deceiving.
• There is no education like adversity.
• A flow of words is no proof of being easy enough.
• Don’t drown yourself to save a drowning man.
• Don’t hide your light under a bushel.
• If it were not for eating, the back might wear gold.
• Adversity flatters no man.
• There is no little enemy.
• If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
• Don’t fan the flame that supports the fire.
• Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
• If luck is with you, even your ox will give birth to a calf.
• There is only one blasphemy, and that is injustice.
• A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
• Adversity has no friends.
• I’d rather be red than dead.
• If he’s your flatterer, he can’t be your friend.
• There must be a first time for everything.
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.
• He who boasts of his descent is like a potato: the best part is underground.
• If a man is right, he cannot be too radical; if wrong, he cannot be too conservative.
• There’s a pot gold at the end of the rainbow.
• There’s more than one way to beat the devil around the bush.
• Don’t jump from the frying pan into the fire.
• As Maine goes, so goes the nation.
• There’s no fun in physics, but a good deal of physics in fun.
• The more responsibilities a man assumes, the more likely he is to meet them.
• In great action, men show themselves as they ought to be, in small action as they are.
• A wise man learns by the experiences of others; an ordinary man learns by his own experience; a fool learns by nobody’s experiences.

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