American proverbs

When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.

Advice, like water, takes the form of the vessel which it is poured into.

One at a time is good fishing; two at a time is making a hog of yourself.

If you can't say something good about someone, come sit right here by me.

Experience is a comb which fate gives to a man when his hair is all gone.

A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.

Home is the father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world.

You are judged not by what you have but by what you do with what you have.

The busy man has few idle visitors: to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Some families are like potatoes -- all that's good of them is underground.

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