Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Happy is she who conducts herself
honorably.
Happy is she who is in love with an old
dotard.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Happy is the bride the sun shines on.
Happy is the country which has no history.
Happy is the man who has a handsome wife
close to an abbey.
Happy is the man who is out of debt.
Happy is the man who knows he's happy.
Happy is the man whose father went to the
devil.
Happy is the man without sickness. Rich is
the man with no debts.
Happy is the one who forgets that which
cannot be changed.
Happy is the woman whose husband does
not speak to her.
Happy man, happy cavil.
Happy nations have no history.
Happy people never count hours as they
pass.
Happy the child whose father goes to the
devil.
Happy the generation where the great listen
to the small, for it follows that in such a
generation the small will listen to the
great.
Happy the house in which there is no
shaven crown.
Happy the man who keeps out of strife.
Happy the marriage where the husband is
the head and the wife the heart.
Happy wife, happy life.
Happy's the wooing that is not long a-doing.
Hard against hard never was good.
Hard bread does the cheek red.
Hard by a river he digs a well.
Hard cases make bad law.
Hard ears yuh won't hear, by and by yuh
gine feel.
Hard heads suffer much.
Hard is a new law imposed on old licence.
Hard is for any man all faults to mend.
Hard is the path from poverty to renown.
Hard things alone will not make a wall.
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Hard upon hard does not make a good wall.
Hard with hard doesn't make a good wall.
Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.
Hard words break no bones.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
Hard-ears you wont hear, own-way ya will
feal.
Hardwork repays.
Hares are caught with hounds, fools with
praise, and women with gold.
Hares are not caught by the sound of the
drum.
Hares are not caught with drums.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
Harm watch, harm catch.
Harmony creates accommodation.
Harrow before the cow.
Harsh is the voice which would dismiss us,
but sweet is the sound of welcome.
Harsh words hurt more than a poisonous
arrow.
Harvest the grapes as soon as they mature
while there is still good dry weather.
Has a better voice than a pigeon.
Hast makes wast.
Haste and hurry can only bear children with
many regrets along the way.
Haste and hurry can only bear children with
many regrets.
Haste and speed are rarely good.
Haste bequeaths disappointment.
Haste does not result in prosperity.
Haste has no blessing.
Haste is from the Devil.
Haste is good only for catching flies.
Haste is the enemy of perfection.
Haste is the invention of the devil.
Haste is the mother of imperfection.
Haste is the mother of inaccuracy.
Haste makes waste and waste makes want.
Haste makes waste.
Haste manages all things badly.
Haste often causes nasty things.
Haste trips up its own heels.
Hasten at leisure.
Hasten leisurely.