Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
At night all cats are grey.
At night all women are alike.
At night one takes eels, it is worth waiting
sometimes.
At once a good general and a stout soldier.
At open doors dogs come in.
At Pentecost, he who does not celebrate
lives to regret it.
At Rome do as Romans do.
At Shrove-tide every one had need of his
frying-pan.
At someone’s funeral we weep for our own
mothers and fathers.
At table bashfulness is out of place.
At table keep short hand; in company keep
a short tongue.
At Taormina every climb has its descent.
At that particular time a mad person gives
you something take it immediately
before he changes is mind.
At the bar of one’s own conscience.
At the beginning of January, take the bull to
fields of heather.
At the bottom of patience is heaven.
At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
At the bottom of the lighthouse it is dark.
At the bottom of the sack you will find the
bill.
At the center of climb is “I”.
At the dining table you should eat without
constraint.
At the end of many disasters, there’s always
an Italian.
At the end of the game the king and the
pawn go into the same bag.
At the end of the game we see who wins.
At the end of the game you’ll see who’s the
winner.
At the end of the game, the pawn and the
king go back in the same box.
At the end of the song comes payment.
At the end of the work you may judge of
the workmen.
At the end the Gloria is chanted.
At the first cup man drinks wine, at the
second wine drinks wine, at the third
wine drinks man.
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At the game’s end we shall see who gains.
At the harvest you know how good the
millet is.
At the king’s court every one for himself.
At the narrow passage there is no brother
and no friend.
At the pharmacy don’t taste, at the
blacksmith’s don’t touch.
At the shade you don’t wipe your bottom.
(Don’t destroy the place, things or
relationships from where you get help.)
At the wars as they do at the wars.
At the wedding-feast the least eater is the
bride.
At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty
a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent,
at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and
at eighty nothing.
At whatever age a child gets a problem, at
the same age she has to shoulder the
responsibility.
Ate and praised is better than ate and was
silence.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Attempt nothing beyond your strength.
Attempt only what you are able to perform.
Attend funerals avoid weddings.
Attitudes don’t prove anyhing.
Attractiveness is better than beauty.
August rain brings oil, honey and must.
Auld men are twice bairns.
Auld sin, new shame.
Auld sparrows are ill to tame.
Auld springs gie me price.
Auld wives and bairns mak fools o’
physicians.
Austerity is an ornament, humility is
honorable.
Authority is in generosity.
Authority shows the man.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy
axe without an edge.
Autumn days come quickly like the
running of a hound on the moor.
Autumn is the hush before winter.
Avarice bursts the bag.