American proverbs

The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keeps his friends in countenance.

From beavers, bees should learn to mend their ways. A bee works; a beaver works and plays.

If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.

In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.

Take a friend for what he does, a wife for what she has, and goods for what they are worth.

The best way to get someone to stop digging his heels in is to dig out the sand around him.

If you don't believe in cooperation, watch what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off.

Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

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