Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Anyone can be trapped.
Anyone can buy a good house, but good
neighbors are priceless.
Anyone can fancy his bed as a palace.
Anyone can make a spoon, but not
everyone can make the handle.
Anyone can start a rumor, but none can
stop one.
Anyone can tame a shrew but he who has
her.
Anyone suffering from a running stomach
is never afraid of the dark.
Anyone who goes hungry for three days
will be inclined to steal.
Anyone who has sold an old lady, knows
the price of an old man.
Anyone who is satisfied to stand still
should not complain when others pass
him.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty
never grows old.
Anyone who lives will know trying times.
Anyone who plants a tree before they die
has not lived in vain.
Anyone who sees beauty and does not look
at it will soon be poor.
Anyone who teases you loves you.
Anyone who urinates in a stream should be
warned because any of his relatives may
drink from the water.
Anything big is small at the beginning.
Anything done willingly is not hard,
difficult to do.
Anything is better than a bad marriage.
Anything will fit a naked man.
Anything with a beginning also has an end.
Anything with scales counts as fish.
Anything worth doing is worth doing for
money.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well
Anytime means no time.
Apelles was not a master painter the first
day.
Apes remain apes, though you cloth them
in velvet.
Appear always what you are and a little
less.
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Appear in your own colours, that folk may
know you.
Appearance can be deceiving. A wolf can
disguise himself as a sheep.
Appearance cheats.
Appearances are deceitful.
Appearances aren’t everything.
Appearances can be deceptive
Appetite comes in eating.
Appetite comes while [with] eating.
Appetite comes with eating; the more one
has, the more one would have.
Applaud the man who cheats a cheater.
Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice
dumplings are better.
Apples taste sweetest when they are going.
Apply fitting ability in the fitting place.
Apprehension of evil is worse than the evil
itself.
Approach heaven with a single stride.
Approach the perfumer and thou wilt be
perfumed.
April and May make meal for the whole
year.
April is the cruelest month
April is the time for sweet sleep, don’t take
things off, don’t put things on.
April is the time for the fava, but if not here,
then surely by the sea.
April makes the flowers and the beauty, but
May gets all the credit.
April rains for men; May, for beasts.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
April showers bring May flowers.
April weather, woman’s love, rose-leaves,
dice, and card-luck, change every
moment.
April, as you see me; May, as I stay; June, as
I am; by July, let everything fly.
April: shuffle the pigsty.
Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy
and Turkish is an art.
Are there not spots on the sun?
Are you a duck your mind is with your
children?