Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Big boast, small roast.
Big buckets can be filled at small streams.
Big chickens don’t peck at small seeds.
Big churches, little saints.
Big fish are fished in big rivers.
Big fish devour the little ones.
Big fish do not live in small ponds.
Big fish eat little fish
Big fish eat little fish.
Big fish eat the little fish (the great ones eat
up the little ones)
Big fish spring out of the kettle.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to
bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to
bite them, and little fleas have lesser
fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Big flies break the spider’s web.
Big head, little wit.
Big houses conceal a lot.
Big in the words, small on the ground.
Big men are not the only kind that can reap
a harvest.
Big mouthfuls often choke.
Big processes make well dressed lawyers
and naked parties.
Big rivers are made out of many small
brooks.
Big ships often sail on big debts.
Big snakes do not live in the same hole.
Big thunder, little rain.
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.
Big voyage for a big ship.
Big walks, big lies.
Big winds, small showers.
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Big words seldom go with good deeds.
Big words won’t split ones mouth.
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
Bind the seck ere it be full.
Binde fast, finde fast.
Bird goes up, bird goes down.
Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Birds agree when flying down, but do not
agree when flying up.
Birds align with grain, but not with the
stick.
Birds are caught with seed, men with
money.
Birds fly not into our mouths ready roasted.
Birds in their little nests agree.
Birds of the same feather flock together.
Birds of a color fly to the same place.
Birds of a colour flock together.
Birds of a feather flock together
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of prey do not flock together.
Birds of prey do not sing.
Birds of the same colour fly to the same
place.
Birds sing not because they have answers
but because they have songs.
Birds that drink water at one swamp, know
each other’s feathers. (People know
about each other’s behavior when they
stay together; People that do things alike
move together.)
Birth is much but breeding more
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
Birth is the messenger of death.
Birth is the only remedy against death.
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself
have not achieved can hardly be called
your own.
Birth’s good but breeding’s better.
Bit by bit, in the end it becomes a hill.
Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a
little tail I should be a little lion.
Bite not the dog that bites.
Bite the biter.
Biting and scratching is Scots folk’s wooing.
Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.
Bitter pills are gilded.
Bitter pills may have blessed effects.
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
Bitter things, hold them dear; sweet things,
keep them enclosed.
Blab is wist and out it must.
Black as is the raven, he’ll get a partner.
Black Christmas, white Easter.
Black cows give white milk.
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