Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Clothes put on while running come off
while running.
Clothes should not be made for an unborn
child.
Clouds are the sign of rain.
Clouds do not always mean rain, but smoke
is a sure sign of fire.
Clouds over the moon, a storm over
blossoms.
Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
Clouds that thunder seldom rain.
Clumsy birds have need of early flight.
Coal that does not burn gives little heat.
Cobbler, do not go beyond the last.
Cobbler, stick to thy last.
Cockroach aint had no right in fowl cock
company.
Cockroach cannot walk drunk in a fowl’s
yard.
Cockroach have no business in a fowl’s
fight.
Cockroad cannot go to hen’s party.
Cocks that crow too early will quickly find
themselves in the pot.
Coffee and love are best when they are hot.
Coffee and love taste best when hot.
Coffee from the top of the cup and chocolate
from the bottom.
Coffee has two virtues, it’s wet and it’s
warm.
Coffee is our bread.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as
death, and sweet as love.
Coin a phrase.
Coincidence defeats a well-laid plan.
Coins are round and come and go.
Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old
love renew’d again, that loved I ever.
Cold cools the love that kindles over hot.
Cold hand, a warm heart.
Cold hearts can find warm words.
Cold pudding settles love.
Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold
looks and cold words are not.
Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold
looks and cold words aren’t.
Cold teaches a man how to steal charcoal.
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Colewort twice cooked.
Collaboration, sharing of burden
irrespective of the weight.
Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows,
in case of an accident, you’ll pay nothing.
Collect the water while it rains.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate
saints.
Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow
prudent.
Come a little closer when your sword is too
short.
Come and I’ll tell you something, tickles the
ear.
Come fish, come frog, all goes into the
basket.
Come for your inheritance and you may
have to pay for the funeral.
Come hell or high water.
Come it aire, come it late, in May comes the
Cow-quake.
Come live with me and you’ll know me.
Come not to the councell uncalled.
Come out of it standing on all four.
Come see ein like come stay. (Come see
[dating] isn’t the same as come stay [a
life-long commitment].)
Come seldom, come welcome.
Come unca’d sits unser’d.
Come with the wind and gae with the water.
Come with the wind, go with the water.
Comes in at the end with a wet sail.
Comes to my hand like the bowl of a pint
stoup.
Comfort is better than pride.
Comfort is not known if poverty does not
come before it.
Comfortable is he who doesn’t have a
donkey –Doesn’t know of its straw and
barley.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Command your man and do it yourself.
Command your wealth, else that will
command you.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances
precarious.