Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Before you buy shoes, measure your feet.
Before you can score, you must first have a
goal.
Before you choose a counselor, watch him
with his neighbor’s children.
Before you find God, you will be eaten by
saints.
Before you flare up at anyone’s faults, take
time to count ten of your own.
Before you let your voice be heard, first lick
your lips.
Before you love, learn to run through snow
without leaving footprints.
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of
salt with him.
Before you make a friend, eat a pack of salt
with him.
Before you married keep you’ two eye open;
after you married, shut one.
Before you marry consider what you do.
Before you marry keep both eyes open; after
marriage shut one.
Before you marry reflect, for it is a knot you
cannot untie.
Before you marry, be sure of a house,
wherein to tarry.
Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot
difficult to untie.
Before you marry, have a house to live in,
fields to till, and vines to cut.
Before you marry, watch what you do.
Before you milk a cow tie it up.
Before you plan to improve the world, look
around your own house three times.
Before you start up a ladder, count the
rungs.
Before you take any decision, consider its
effect on the next seven generations.
Begat a son and your name will live forever.
Beggar beg from beggar him nebber get rich
Beggars breed and rich men feed.
Beggars can never be bankrupts.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
Beggars can’t be choosers. For a good
appetite there is no hard bread.
Beggars fear no rebellion.
Beggars have no worries.
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Beggars mounted ride their horses to death.
Beggars must not be choosers.
Begged bread has a hard crust.
Begin in time to finish without hurry.
Begin to weave and God will give the
thread.
Begin with an error of an inch and end by
being a thousand miles off the mark.
Beginning and ending shake hands.
Beginning cruel end good.
Beginning is easy - continuing is hard.
Beginning is easy - to keep going is hard.
Begun is half done.
Behave like the chameleon: look forward
and observe behind.
Behind an able man there are always other
able men.
Behind every able man, there are always
other able men.
Behind every great man is a great woman
Behind every great man there's a great
woman
Behind every mountain lies a valley.
Behind every sweaty face of a cattle rustler
is a story of determination and courage.
Behind the clouds the sky is always blue.
Behind the cross stands the devil.
Behind the dog it is “dog,” in front of it, it’s
“mister dog.”
Behind the gentle barb lies the deadly barb.
Behind the mountain there are people too.
Behold the iguana puffing itself out to make
itself a man.
Being a good friend of a scorpion doesn’t
mean that you can’t be stung by a
honeybee.
Being a swimmer and spending time in the
water does not make you a fish.
Being able to feel it on wooden shoes.
Being alone does not scrub your back. (A
person alone is not able to do everything;
they need other people’s help.)
Being at the garden is to see the cultivated
part