It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.
Proverbs and old sayings about dark, americans
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The worm don't see nothing pretty in the robin's song.
Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, americans
I'm not going to lend you a stick to break my head with.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads, americans, contentment
Wagon makes the loudest noise when it's goin' out empty.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans
Ain't no use askin' the cow to pour you a glass of milk.
Proverbs and old sayings about use, americans, contentment
Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans
Nothing can suffice a person except that which they have not.
Proverbs and old sayings about people, nothing, americans
All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.
Proverbs and old sayings about magic, people, americans
When the bait is more than the fish, 'tis time to stop fishing.
Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, time, americans
Death don't see no difference 'tween the big house and the cabin.
Proverbs and old sayings about death, home, house, americans
The rainbow might be better lookin' if 'twasn't such a cheap show.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans, contentment
Heaps of good cotton stocks get chopped up from association with the weeds.
Proverbs and old sayings about americans, good, good luck
The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.
Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, time, americans
If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
Proverbs and old sayings about secret, magic, americans, contentment
We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, god, americans
Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.
Proverbs and old sayings about education, intelligence, bad, rightness, americans, man
The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.
Proverbs and old sayings about things, americans
In the South they don't care how close you get, as long as you don't get too high. In the North, they don't care how high you get, as long as you don't get too close.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, americans
A single bracelet does not jingle.
Proverbs and old sayings
