More American Proverbs

Necessity never made a good bargain.... >>

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

You cannot unscramble eggs.... >>

The wish is the father of the deed.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

Carry bread in your hood to Don Garcia's wedding.... (Spanish) >>

Eating and scratching want but a beginning... (Greek) >>

In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.... (Spanish) >>

A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not... (Chinese) >>

A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.... (Spanish) >>

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

- American Proverb