Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Dreams are froth.
Dreams are lies.
Dreams are related to the past but connected
to the future.
Dreams are voices of ancestors.
Dreams are what you hope for; reality is
what you plan for.
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
Dreams give wings to fools.
Dreams go by contraries.
Dree out the inch when ye have thoi’d the
span.
Dreigh bargains bode ill.
Dress makes the man.
Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.
Dress the monkey in silk and it is still a
monkey.
Dress up a country bumpkin and he looks
like a baron.
Dress up a rod, it looks like a baron. Dress
up a stick of heather, it looks like a lady.
Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be
a stick.
Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride.
Dress up a stick and you get a doll.
Dress up once a year, and dress up in cloth.
Dressed like a windmill.
Drink a glass of wine after your soup and
you will be stealing a ruble from the doc-
tor.
Drink and drouth comes sindle together.
Drink and frankfurters for a dime; kill a man
before his time.
Drink and sing: the dark night is ahead of
us.
Drink beer, think beer.
Drink coffee while it’s hot enough to make
you swear but let the chocolate cool.
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you
fight with your neighbour. It makes you
shoot at your landlord and it makes you
miss him.
Drink like hell and be happy.
Drink little that ye may drink lang.
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but
only, alas, until tomorrow.
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign
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nothing without reading it.
Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat;
drink upon eggs costs him two.
Drink water like an ox, wine like the king of
Spain.
Drink wine and let water go to the mill.
Drink wine upon figs.
Drink wine, and have the gout; drink no
wine, and have the gout too.
Drink with an Englishman by the day and
get buggered in the night.
Drinking a little too much is drinking a great
deal too much.
Drinking fake ale is better then drinking
water.
Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand
shots are too few; Talking with a
disagreeable person, half a sentence is
too many.
Drinks down your sorrow, but your sorrow
returns the morning after.
Dripping water can eat through a stone.
Drive a rat into a corner, and he’ll jump at
you.
Drive gently over the stones.
Drive not a second nail till the first be
clinched.
Drive not away what never came near you.
Drive not too many ploughs at once, some
will make foul work.
Drive out the inch as thou hast done the
span.
Drive the horse with oats, not with curses
and oaths.
Drive the nail that will go.
Drive your business or it will drive you.
Drive your business, do not let it drive you.
Drop after drop, there will be an ocean.
Drop by drop fills the tub.
Drop by drop the lake is drained.
Drop by drop the lake is formed.
Drop by drop wears away the stone.
Drop by drop would make a lake.
Drop by drop, a whole lake becomes.
Drop by drop, it will make a pond.
Drop the jest when it is most amusing.
Dropping a stitch.