Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
For an bystander nothing is precious.
For an honest man half his wits are enough;
the whole is too little for a knave.
For better for worse they have married me.
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.
For each man produced by heaven, earth
provides a grave.
For each wise man there are plenty of fools.
For every ailing foot, there is a slipper.
For every dog there is an appropriate stick.
For every evil under the sun there is a
remedy or there is none.
For every goose there is a gander.
For every fog in march there's a frost in
may.
For every glance behind us, we have to look
twice to the future.
For every head a hat.
For every one with a plow there're seven
with a spoon.
For every wise man there is one still wiser.
For everyone there is an appointed time.
For everything there is a season
For evil tongues, scissors.
For example is not the same as proof.
For extreme ills extreme remedies.
For fashion's sake as dogs gang to the
market.
For fault of wise men fools sits on binks.
For God and our country.
For good work time is needed.
For great evils strong remedies.
For great ills, great remedies.
For he who builds his casbah out of halava;
beware the nibblers.
For him who does not believe in signs, there
is no way to live in the world.
For him who is accustomed to taking giving
away is a battle.
For his master the dog is a lion.
For ill do well, then fear not hell.
For lack of hens the fox catches crows.
For lack of men they made my father a
justice.
For love of the Nuris, many kisses the Bairn.
For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke.
For love the wolf eats the sheep.
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For maturity, a drum is not beaten. (Don’t
wait for others to tell you that you are
now mature.)
For most people love of justice is no more
than the fear to suffer injustice.
For my faither likes melts!
For news of the heart, ask the face.
For no man could be blessed without the
acceptance of his own head.
For one mission, there is one leader.
For one pleasure a thousand pains.
For one to succeed in life, one has to work
hard.
For our altars and our hearths.
For our sins God has created three enemies
for us: mice in the house, the fox in the
mountains, and a priest in our village.
For overbuying there's no help but selling
again.
For people who love even water is sweet.
For poor people small coin.
For rice cakes, go to the rice-cake maker.
For rich and poor alike the womb is equally
warm.
For sake of the knight the lady kisses the
squire.
For smart people, signs can replace words.
For so must it be, and help me do my part.
For some of us happiness comes while we
sleep.
For some people war is war, for others -
dear mother.
For sulphur, wheat, wine, and wool, come to
the towns of Sicily.
For tender almonds go to Aragona, to see
beautiful young girls go to Favara.
For the bad weather, a cheerful face.
For the benefit of the flowers, we water the
thorns, too.
For the birds that cannot soar, God has
provided low branches.
For the blind sellers there are blind buyers.
For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few,
for the seller one is enough.