Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble.
Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the
pot.
Beautifully decorated plate won’t feed
anyone.
Beauty and chastity are always quarreling.
Beauty and folly are constant companions.
Beauty and folly are often companions.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Beauty and folly go often in company.
Beauty and honesty seldom agree.
Beauty but bounty avails nought.
Beauty cannot be eaten with a spoon.
Beauty carries its dower in its face.
Beauty does not fill your tummy.
Beauty does not season soup.
Beauty doesn’t exist, men only dream it.
Beauty draws more than oxen.
Beauty draws with a single hair.
Beauty fades like a flower.
Beauty is a fading flower.
Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
Beauty is an empty calabash.
Beauty is as beauty does.
Beauty is but a blossom (good looks do not
last)
Beauty is but a blossom.
Beauty is but dross it honesty be lost.
Beauty is but skin-deep.
Beauty is eloquent even when silent.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is no inheritance
Beauty is no longer amiable than while
virtue adorns it.
Beauty is not so much what you see as what
you dream.
Beauty is not sold and eaten.
Beauty is only skin deep
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes
straight to the bone.
Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes to
the bone.
Beauty is only skin-deep.
Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.
Beauty is power.
Beauty is silent eloquence.
Beauty is skin deep.
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Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.
Beauty is the eye’s food but the soul’s
sorrow.
Beauty is the sister of idleness and the
mother of luxury.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is
the beauty of men.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
Beauty may open doors but only virtue
enters.
Beauty never boiled the pot and ugliness
never thickened it.
Beauty never travels in a group.
Beauty passes, but perfection remains with
us.
Beauty passes; wisdom remains.
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
Beauty widout grace like rose widout smell.
Beauty will fade, but not goodness.
Beauty without honesty is like a rose
without perfume.
Beauty without virtue is a curse.
Beauty without virtue is a rose without
fragrance.
Beauty without virtue is as a flower without
perfume.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without
scent.
Beauty without wisdom is like a flower in
the mud.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a
flower without perfume.
Beauty’s muck when honour’s tint.
Beauty’s sister is vanity, and its daughter
lust.
Because a man has injured your goat, do not
go out and kill his bull.
Because friendship is pleasant, we partake
of our friend’s entertainment; not
because we have not enough to eat in
our own house.
Because he has so many trades, he is
unemployed.