Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Cheap things are not good, good things are
not cheap.
Cheap things cost a lot of money.
Cheaper than dates in Basra.
Cheapest is dearest.
Cheat a poor man that you will give him a
cow and he won’t sleep. (I have come for
the thing you promised)
Cheat me in the price and not in the goods.
Cheat me with the price, but not with the
goods I buy.
Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.
Cheaters never prosper
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat
Cheating is more honourable than stealing.
Cheating is the chapman’s cart and plough.
Cheats never prosper.
Check before you bite if it is bread or a
stone.
Cheerful company shortens the journey.
Cheerful company shortens the miles.
Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour
light.
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
Cheerfulness, helpfulness and honesty are
fine, good companions to take with you
through life.
Cheese and bread make the cheeks red.
Cheese and money should always sleep
together one night.
Cheese digests all things but itself
Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat,
butter from the cow.
Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at
noon, and lead at night.
Cheese, pears and bread, is not the food of
peasants.
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be
good.
Cherish youth, but trust old age.
Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.
Cherry blossoms in the recesses of a
mountain.
Chestnut horses and surly men can’t even
cover expenses.
Chiaramonte, a mountain of gold, every
woman is a treasure.
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Chicken are beautiful because of their
feathers, women are beautiful because of
their make-up.
Chicken deh merry, Hawk deh near.
Chickens always come home to roost
Chickens are counted in autumn.
Chickens can’t go back into eggs.
Chickens can’t speak well of their own soup.
Chickens don’t praise their own soup.
Chickens have come home to roost.
Chieftaincy, people. (If you are a leader you
should not despise ordinary people,
because a person is not able to be a
leader if there are no followers.)
Chieftanship is not infectious.
Chilblain passes with the flowers of May.
Child’s pig, father’s pork.
Childhood memories last long.
Childhood should be happy and carefree.
Childhood shows the man as morning
shows the day.
Children act in the village as they have
learned at home.
Children and drunken men speak the truth.
Children and fools are prophets.
Children and fools have merry lives.
Children and fools must not play with
edged tools.
Children and fools speak the truth.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Children and the deaf are the punishment of
God.
Children are a poor man’s riches.
Children are buttonholes that hold their
parents together.
Children are certain cares, but uncertain
comforts.
Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain
joy.
Children are definitive sorrow, but
undefinitive joy.
Children are poor men’s riches.
Children are the reward of life.
Children are the riches of the poor.
Children are uncertain comforts but certain
cares.