More American Proverbs

Good fences make good neighbors.... >>

The show must go on.... >>

It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put... >>

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

All men are fools, but all fools are not men.... >>

Other Proverbs

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds ... (Chinese) >>

No rose is without thorns.... (Afghan) >>

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently... (Chinese) >>

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman t... (Chinese) >>

The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.... (English) >>

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

- American Proverb