American proverbs

The man who flatters you is a liar: the greater the flattery, the bigger the liar.

Everything worthwhile has a fence around it, but there is always a gate and a key.

It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job.

There are many who prefer to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.

What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment.

The best part of a book is not the thought it contains but the thought it suggests.

When a dog bites a man, that is not news; but when a man bites a dog, that is news.

It is better to pay and have a little left than to have much and be always in debt.

The outward forms the inward man reveal - we guess the pulp before we cut the peel.

From middle age on, everything of interest is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

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