More American Proverbs

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

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

Leave well enough alone.... >>

Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away.... >>

Close, but no cigar.... >>

Other Proverbs

When goods increase the body decreases.... (French) >>

Example is the greatest of all seducers.... (French) >>

Always in love, never married.... (French) >>

At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore.... (French) >>

Great talkers, little doers.... (French) >>

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man

- American Proverb