Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Go to your aunt's house, but not every day.
Go to your rich friend's house when invited;
to your poor friend's without invitation.
Go with the powerful and people will kneel
before you.
Goats cannot live in a herd of leopards.
Goats fall that take hold of lichens.
God afflicts, but does not abandon.
God allows but doesn't micromanage.
God alone understands fools.
God and man think him a fool who brags of
his of his own great wisdom.
God arranges luck.
God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered
cow.
God bless him who pays visits -- short visits.
God blesses a drunk.
God closes a door and opens a portico.
God comes at last when we think he is
furthest off.
God comes to see without ringing the bell.
God comes with leaden feet but strikes with
iron hands.
God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh
with iron hands.
God conceals himself from the mind of man,
but reveals himself to his heart.
God could not be everywhere and therefore
he made mothers.
God couldn't be everywhere, so he created
mothers.
God counts her tears.
God created a world full of little worlds.
God created people because he loves stories.
God created women and women created the
hearth.
God creates 40 people with the same looks.
God cures and the physician takes the fee.
God cures the patient and the doctor
pockets the fee.
God cures the sick, and the doctor gets the
money.
God cures, and the doctor gets paid.
God cures, and the doctor gets the money.
God cures, and the doctor takes the fee.
God defend me from my friends; from my
enemies I can defend myself.
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God defend you from the devil, the eye of a
harlot, and the turn of a die.
God delays but doesn't forget.
God deliver me from a man of one book.
God deliver us from a gentleman by day
and a friar by night.
God detests a man who rushes to accuse a
neighbor.
God did not create haste.
God did not create hurry.
God did not create woman from man's head,
that he should command her, nor from
his feet, that she should be his slave, but
rather from his side, that she should be
near his heart.
God did not give wings to scorpions.
God does not ask to withstand more than is
possible.
God does not beat one with a stick.
God does not concell a liar.
God does not give horns to a cow that likes
to gore.
God does not give to the cow that butts.
God does not hear you if you do not speak.
God does not love those who have not
suffered.
God does not pay every Saturday.
God does not pay weekly, but He pays at
the end.
God does not smite with both hands.
God doesn't give more beards than soap.
God don't like ugly.
God feeds the birds that use their wings.
God finds a low branch for the bird that
cannot fly.
God fits the back for the burden.
God forgives sinners, otherwise His heaven
would be empty.
God forgives the sin of gluttony.
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
God gave gums, God will give granary.
God gave teeth; He will give bread.
God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He
would not have to bend the palm tree.
God gave us each a song.