Famous Proverbs
1911 Proverbs about America / Page 157
1561.
Measure twice before you cut once.1562.
Men fear death as children do going in the dark.1563.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.1564.
More corn grows in crooked rows.1565.
More flies are caught with honey than with molasses.1566.
Most men get as good a wife as they deserve, and that isn't much.1567.
My son's my son till he gets him a wife; my daughter's my daughter all of her life.1568.
Naught's a naught and figger's a figger - all for the white man and none for the nigger.1569.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.1570.
Never assent merely to please.