A dog is a man's best friend.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse.

A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse.

A man can die just once.

A man can't do more than he can do. What says Don Ferdinando?

A man is as big as the things that made him mad.

A man never becomes an orator if he has something to say.

A miss is as good as a mile.

A poor man is always behind.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

All men are fools, but all fools are not men.

All men are not cast in the same mold.

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.

Bad news travels fast.

Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Bad the crow, bad the egg.

Boys will be boys.

By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.

Christmas comes, but once a year is enough.

Close, but no cigar.

Crap or get off the pot.

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

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Don't cry till you are out of the wood.