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.