Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a
crime.
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and
he will establish your plans.
Common fame is seldom to blame.
Common fame seldom lies.
Common goods, no goods.
Common saw sindle lies.
Common sense ain’t common.
Common sense hides shame.
Common sense is essential.
Common sense is genius dressed in its
working clothes.
Common sense is very uncommon with a lot
of people.
Communicate more with yourself than you
do with others.
Communism is a cow of many; well milked
and badly fed.
Communities begin by building their
kitchen.
Community is not made by force.
Company drags a man to the scaffold.
Company in distress makes trouble less.
Compare your griefs with those of other
men and they will seem less.
Compare your grieves with other men’s and
they will seem less.
Comparing apples with pears.
Comparison is not necessarily proof.
Comparison is not proof.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons make enemies of our friends.
Compete not with a friend.
Compete, don’t envy.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Complain about the house where the
husband is the wife.
Complain to someone who can help you.
Complaining is the weak’s weapon.
Complaining to someone other than God is
disgraceful.
Complete idiot who can keep silent, to a
wise man is similar.
Completing a transaction with money
borrowed at usury is a bad purchase.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay
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dearly for them.
Compromise is always a temporary
achievement.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a
poor roof.
Conceal not your secret from your friend, or
you deserve to lose him.
Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
Concealing truth is like wearing
embroidered clothes and traveling by
night.
Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass.
Concern is the beginning of wealth.
Condemn a man within earshot; praise him
at a distance.
Condition is 90 percent of the game.
Condition makes, and condition breaks.
Confess and be hanged.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will
show you are wise today.
Confess’d faut is half amends.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
Confession is good for the soul.
Confession is the first step to repentance.
Confession without contrition serves no
purpose.
Confessions without contrition, and prayers
without intentions are time lost.
Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will
speak.
Confide in a woman and a magpie if you
want something to be broadcast.
Confide not in him who has deceived you.
Confidence begets confidence.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
Confidence of success is almost success.
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is
like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
Confound those who have anticipated us in
what we would have said.
Confucius say too much.
Confusion is a chicken with shattered eyes.
Congeniality makes beauty and not beauty
love.
Conquer what you desire.