Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Covetous people will never be satisfied
while they are alive.
Covetousness bursts the bag.
Covetousness is always filling a bottomless
vessel.
Covetousness is its own stepmother.
Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth
is filled with earth.
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled
desires.
Cow breaks your leg so that they know
where you come from. (a person who
only thinks of his kinsmen when he is in
trouble)
Cow non dead him wi shak him tail.
Cow of many – well milked and badly fed.
Cow’s diets have never been sustained on
grass grown in May.
Coward against coward, the assailant
conquers.
Coward people have no country of their
own.
Coward, strangle your fear, or else you will
strangle yourself.
Cowardice will not prolong life.
Cowardly men, healthy bones.
Cowards die many times, but a brave man
only dies once.
Cowards die many times.
Cowards have no luck.
Cowards may die many times before their
death.
Cowards take hostages. Klingons do not.
Cowards win no laurels.
Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce.
Cows can catch no rabbits.
Cows do not indulge in horseplay.
Cows forget that they were calves.
Cows have no business in horseplay.
Coyote is always out there waiting, and
Coyote is always hungry.
Crab’n choke puppy.
Crabbit was, and cause had.
Crabs dig holes according to the size of their
shells.
Crabs teach their offspring to walk straight.
Cracow wasn’t built at once.
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Craft maun hae claes, but truth gaes naked.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to
go naked.
Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves
to go naked.
Crafty advice is often got from a fool.
Crap or get off the pot.
Crawling on hands and knees has never
prevented anyone from walking upright.
Crazy wheels run longest.
Creaking carts last the longest.
Cream always rises to the top.
Cream doesn’t rise to the top, it works its
way up.
Creation is continuous.
Credit is better than ill luck.
Credit is better than money.
Credit is better than ready money.
Credit is better than wealth.
Credit is dead, bad pay killed it.
Credit is suspicion asleep.
Credit keeps the crown of the causey.
Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.
Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
Credulity breeds credulity and ends in
hypocrisy.
Crime doesn’t pay.
Crime doesn't pay
Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of
every devil.
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a
snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse
-mango, it leaves its smell.
Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.
Criminals are punished, that others may be
amended.
Crisis brings opportunity and change.
Criticism is easy but it does not create.
Criticism is something you can avoid by
saying nothing, doing nothing, and
being nothing.
Criticism of the brave is behind his back.
Criticism of the state is all right, but don’t
forget the nation is you.