More American Proverbs
- The fates lead the willing man; an unwilling man they drag.
- The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- Hunger finds no fault with moldy corn.
- 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”.
- Always a valley before a hill.
- In the boy see the man.
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness.
- Deep calls unto deep.
- The road to ruin is kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense.
- Accident is the mother of invention.
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are different things.
- The young may die; the old must die.
- A little doubt saves many a mistake.
- Don’t buy a cow to get a glass of milk.
- A flow of words is no proof of being easy enough.
- Don’t judge a book by its cover.
- 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.