Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Ask not what your profits can do for you,
but what you can do for your profits.
Ask questions from your heart and you will
be answered from the heart.
Ask someone else for advice but keep your
knowledge to yourself.
Ask ten brewers and you will get eleven
opinions.
Ask the experienced rather than the
learned.
Ask the truth from a child.
Ask thy purse what thou should spend.
Ask thy purse what thou should’st buy.
Ask too much to get enough.
Ask which was born first, the hen or the
egg.
Ask your purse what you shouldn’t buy.
Ask, and it shall be given you.
Asking costs little.
Asking is no sin, and being refused is no
tragedy.
Asking is the sister of knowing.
Asking question is the only way to learn.
Asking questions is not silly.
Asparagus and mushrooms teach a cook
humility.
Aspiration is not a defect for youngsters.
Aspire to the principle, behave with virtue,
abide by benevolence, and immerse
yourself in the arts.
Assertion is no proof.
Asses carry the oats and horses eat them.
Asses must not be tied up with horses.
Asses sing badly, because they pitch their
voices too high.
Asses that bray most eat least.
Assistance given when it is not required, is
as bad as an injury.
Associate with the good and you will be
one of them.
Assurance is two-thirds of success.
At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant
foremost, the master behind.
At a coward’s home there is no mourning.
At a dangerous passage yield precedence.
At a distance enjoy the fragrance of flowers.
At a good bargain pause and ponder.
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At a great pennyworth pause awhile.
At a great river be the last to pass.
At a hunting expedition you cannot
apportion the meat before you kill the
animal.
At a little fountain one drinks at one’s ease.
At a round table there is no dispute about
place.
At a time a cockerel matures, it begins to
crow to tell the world the time of day.
At a wedding a bride eats the least.
At an ambuscade of villains a man does
better with his feet than his hands.
At an auction keep your mouth shut.
At an open chest the righteous sins.
At birth your fate is written.
At borrowing cousin german, at repaying
son of a whore.
At Caltagirone a hairy conscience and a
crown with fifteen places.
At Cccamu there are the boors at Termini
the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long
-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside
and rotten on the inside.
At court there are many hands, but few
hearts.
At court they sell a good deal of smoke
without fire.
At death, one’s words and defects are
buried.
At death’s door a man will beg for the
fever.
At evening the sluggard is busy.
At every door-way, ere one enters, one
should spy round.
At fifty a man is either the Pope or a fool.
At her wedding, the bride eats the least.
At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the
ants eat fish.
At home saints never perform miracles.
At last the foxes all meet at the furrier’s.
At length the fox is brought to the furrier.
At length the fox turns monk.
At my leisure, as lairds dee.
At night all cats are brown.