1614 American Proverbs / Page 51
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Men build houses; women build homes.1002.
Men fear death as children do going in the dark.1003.
Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.1004.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.1005.
Men that have much business must have much pardon.1006.
Money talks -- everything else walks.1007.
More corn grows in crooked rows.1008.
More die of food than famine.1009.
More flies are caught with honey than with molasses.1010.
Most men get as good a wife as they deserve, and that isn't much.1011.
My son's my son till he gets him a wife; my daughter's my daughter all of her life.1012.
Naught's a naught and figger's a figger - all for the white man and none for the nigger.1013.
Necessity never made a good bargain.1014.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.1015.
Never assent merely to please.1016.
Never be content with your lot. Try for a lot more.1017.
Never believe the impossible.1018.
Never borrow, never lend if you wish to keep a friend.1019.
Never complain. never explain.1020.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.