Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Gagh is always best served when live.
Gain from your opponents without
sacrificing your own strength.
Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it
will.
Gamblers do not contribute to the public
welfare.
Gambling is the son of avarice and the
father of despair.
Gambling sire, gambling son.
Gaming, women and wine, while they
laugh, they make men pine.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Garden flowers larger, field flowers
stronger.
Garlands are not for every brow.
Garlic by the savour, bread by the colour.
Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
Gather and spare can last long.
Gather flowers while the morning sun lasts.
Gather rosebuds while you may.
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest
branches first.
Gather thistles, expect prickles.
Gaunting gaes frae man to man.
Geese are caught with Geese.
Geese are plucked as long as they have any
feathers.
Gems are polished by rubbing, just as men
are made brilliant by trials.
Generally with life you will be betrayed by
close relatives.
Generals conquer, soldiers are killed.
Generosity has its disadvantages.
Generosity is white and pure like milk.
Genius can be recognized by its childish
simplicity.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking
pains.
Genius is one part inspiration and three
parts perspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-
nine percent perspiration
Gentility without ability is worse than plain
begging.
Gentility, sent to market, will not buy a peck
of meal.
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Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds.
Gentle is that gentle does.
Gentle paddocks have lang taes.
Gentlemen don't want to give much and are
ashamed to give little.
Gentlemen prefer blonds -- but marry
brunettes.
Gentlemen, i have nothing to say. any ques-
tions?
Gentleness does more than violence.
Gently but firmly.
Gently, not by force.
Get a Christian doctor and a pagan lawyer.
Get a good name and go to sleep.
Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all
day.
Get advice, then make your own decision.
Get along with the village headman,
plunder the village.
Get bait while the tide is out.
Get down on your knees and thank God
you're still on your feet.
Get hold of the little you have as you
struggle for more quantity or quality.
Get marriade only if you know yourself
well.
Get married and you will be happy for a
week; slaughter a pig and you will be
happy for a month; become a priest and
you will be happy for the rest of your
life.
Get out of that place and let me take it.
Get overripe before partly ripe.
Get the coffin ready and watch the man
mend.
Get three Darkovans together and they hold
a dance.
Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and
God will send flax.
Get together like brother, and keep each
other in check like strangers.
Get what to lend out and at the same time
how to demand it back, for payment
might be a tussle.