1614 American Proverbs / Page 10
181. Advice to all, security for none.
182. Advice, like water, takes the form of the vessel which it is poured into.
183. Advice, when most needed, is least heeded.
184. Advisers get away with it. They never have to pay the penalty for their advice.
185. Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
186. Afflictions are the good mans' treasure - but he'd rather buy it than bear it.
187. After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
188. After all is said and done, more is said than done.
189. After dinner sit awhile; after supper walk a mile.
190. After us the deluge.
191. Age and marriage tame man and beast.
192. Age before beauty; pearls before swine.
193. Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
194. Age lasts; youth devours.
195. Air castles are good; now put foundations under them.
196. Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.
197. All are architects of fate working in these walls of time.
198. All are not hunters that blow the horn.
199. All asses do not go on four feet.
200. All complain for want of memory, but none for want of judgement.