American proverbs

A human learns how to talk early, but how to keep silent late.

The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.

What's the good of a fair apple if it has a worm in its heart?

It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick.

Drink and frankfurters for a dime; kill a man before his time.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few.

He who laughs at others' woes finds few friends and many foes.

Don't start economizing when you are down to your last dollar.

If the goat would not jump around, she wouldn't break her leg.

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