Proverbs and old sayings about Americans, page 79

1761 proverbs and old sayings about americans

When you buy friends with anything other than friendship, they do not stay bought long.

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Candour once went further boldly and in smiles, but it crept home in tatters and tears.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

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An adult is only one who has ceased to grow vertically and started to grow horizontally.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Naught's a naught and figger's a figger - all for the white man and none for the nigger.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Criticism is something you can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A slip of the foot and you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans