Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Fools are more useful to the wise than wise
are to fools.
Fools are never uneasy.
Fools are weatherwise, and those that are
weatherwise are seldom otherwise.
Fools are wise as long as silent.
Fools ask questions that wise men cannot
answer.
Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know
their time.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools die young and look sickly.
Fools die young.
Fools enter where brave men fear to tread.
Fools fall the hardest.
Fools for luck.
Fools gawp at masterpieces - wise men set
out to outdo masterpieces.
Fools give parties, sensible people go to
them.
Fools go in throngs.
Fools grow without watering.
Fools live poor to die rich.
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use
tonight.
Fools love not the wise, drunkards love not
the sober.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools must not be set on eggs.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only
are the better for it.
Fools never get grey hair.
Fools never prosper.
Fools refuse favours.
Fools rejoice for a bad thing.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools set far trysts.
Fools shou'd na hae chapping sticks.
Fools sometimes give wise men counsel.
Fools were made to multiply.
Foot firm till death.
Footprints on the sands of time are not
made by sitting down.
For a bad night, a mattress of wine.
For a bad tongue scissors.
For a chaste woman God is enough.
For a cow and a calf you need a man and a
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stable boy.
For a drunkard the sea only reaches his
knees.
For a drunken one a sea is knee-deep, and a
puddle - ears-deep.
For a ducat brother will sell brother.
For a fly to die on an ulcer is not bad.
For a flying enemy make a golden bridge.
For a flying enemy make a silver bridge.
For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
For a good companion good company.
For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can
afford to wait.
For a jackal to bark there must be something
on which it has placed its buttocks.
For a jest one should not take the arrow out
of the quiver.
For a lot of people their conscience lives in
the middle of the street.
For a mad dog, seven versts is not a long
detour.
For a morning rain leave not your journey.
For a new sin, a new penance.
For a paltry gift, little thanks.
For a poor man, to prepare for a trip means
belt himself.
For a rash to heal, you must stop scratching
it.
For a stubborn ass a hard goad.
For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver.
For a taste treat, try tuna roe and thorny
cardoons.
For a thirsty ox dirty water will do as well.
For a tint thing care not.
For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed.
For a web begun God sends thread.
For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour.
For a wise man a fool is a good advisor.
For age and want save while you may, no
morning sun lasts a whole day.
For all one's early rising, it dawns none the
sooner.
For an ant to have wings would be his
undoing.
For an apple and an egg.