More American Proverbs

A man is as big as the things that made him mad.... >>

Praise makes a bad man worse.... >>

The chickens have come home to roost.... >>

You can bear with your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?... >>

The receiver is as bad as the thief.... >>

Other Proverbs

He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing.... (French) >>

He did not invent gunpowder.... (Spanish) >>

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.... (English) >>

Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.... (Spanish) >>

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.... (Spanish) >>

I'd rather have them say "There he goes" than "Here he lies.".

- American Proverb