Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
By bread and salt we are united.
By candle light, neither women nor cloth.
By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.
By coming and going, a bird constructs its
nest.
By continually scolding someone, they in
time become accustomed to it and
despise your reproof.
By continually striving for the best, one may
waste good opportunities.
By crawling, a child learns to stand.
By cultivating bottom land, you gain
sustenance and goods.
By day they’re ready to divorce, by night
they’re ready for bed.
By day think of your own faults, by night
think of the faults of others.
By degrees the castles are built.
By different methods different men excel.
By dint of going wrong all will come right.
By doing nothing men learn to do evil.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
By fair means or foul.
By falling we learn to go safely.
By filling one’s head instead of one’s pocket,
one cannot be robbed.
By firelight, an old rag looks like sturdy
hemp fabric.
By getting angry, one shows that she is
wrong.
By getting angry, you show you are wrong.
By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather.
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
By going gains the mill, and not by standing
still.
By good means or bad.
By good nature and kindness even fierce
spirits become tractable.
By guess as the blind man felled the dog.
By his deeds we know a man.
By his own hand he wrapped the snake
around his neck.
By hook or by crook.
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes
we learn.
By its fruits one knows the tree.
By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up
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the whole elephant.
By labor comes wealth.
By labor fire is got out of stone.
By labour fire is got out of a stone.
By lamplight every country wench seems
handsome.
By learning to obey, you will know how to
command.
By learning you will teach; by teaching you
will learn.
By much laughter you detect the fool.
By night all cats are black.
By other’s faults wise men correct their own.
By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy.
By pleasing, while we instruct.
By poking at a bamboo thicket, one drives
out a snake.
By pounding the dough the bread will rise.
By pride one causes virtue to decline.
By repeated blows even the oak is felled.
By Saint Candelora day if it’s not snowing
or raining, winter is over.
By seeing one spot you know the entire
leopard.
By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog
is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass.
By slow degrees the bird builds his nest.
By speedy, not by slow measures.
By staying always in the same place one gets
lice.
By submitting to an old insult you invite a
new one.
By suppers more have been killed than
Galen ever cured.
By telling our woes we often assuage them.
By the claw you may know the lion.
By the familiarity of the master the servant
is spoilt.
By the feast of Saint Candelora winter is
over.
By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion,
and the third a pig.
By the hands of many a great work is made
light.
By the living we bury the dead.