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American Proverbs (N / O / P / Q / R / S)

American Proverbs (N / O / P / Q / R / S)

Proverbs are popularly defined as short expressions of popular wisdom. Efforts to improve on the popular definition have not led to a more precise definition. The wisdom is in the form of a general observation about the world or a bit of advice, sometimes more nearly an attitude toward a situation.

N

  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
  • Never approach a bull from the front, never approach a horse from the rear and never approach a fool from any direction
  • Never enter a mud fight with a pig.
    • "You'll both get dirty, but the pig likes it." Don't argue with someone who enjoys it.
  • Never look a gift horse in the mouth, you might get bit.
Explanation: Do not judge the quality of something that is given to you.
  • Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
  • Never pick a fight with a fat guy, cause at the end of the day you'll be tired and he'll still be fat.
  • Nice guys finish last - Leo "the Lip" Durocher, major league baseball manager.
  • No good deed goes unpunished.
  • No honor among thieves.
  • Nobody leaves us, we only leave others.
Explanation: A memory will stay forever
  • All that glitters, is not gold!
  • Nice guy is every girl's friend, but to no girl a boyfriend!

O

  • Old habits die hard.
  • One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel.
  • One fly makes a summer - Mark Twain
    • One person can make a difference.
  • One never truly feels the breeze until it blows him away. - Ken Kesey
  • One man's trash is another man's treasure.
  • One can only hope.

P

  • Practice makes perfect
    • Variation: Practice makes permanent.
    • Variation: Perfect practice makes perfect.
  • "Procrastination is the key to failure."
  • People who don't talk are thought to be stupid; people who do prove it.
  • People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
  • Pretty is as pretty does.

Q

  • Quitters never win and winners never quit.
    • Those who give up never succeed, and those who succeed never give up.

R

  • Rome wasn't built in a day
    • Great things take time
  • Rolling stone gathers no moss...

S

  • Silence is golden.
    • Variant: Silence is golden, but duck tape is silver.
  • Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
  • Second place just means first loser. -Kevin Costner
  • Some things just take time. You can't have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. -Warren Buffet
  • Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you. - The Big Lebowski
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
  • Stupid is as stupid does.

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