American proverbs

If it's wrong to eat the devil, it's wrong to drink his broth.

Candour will lose you some friends, but not as many as deceit.

The happiest place in the world to live is within one's income.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

He that makes a fire of straw has much smoke but little warmth.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow your wife may come home.

Silks and satins, scarlet and velvet, put out the kitchen fire.

He that pries into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt.

There are many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

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