Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He forgot nothing except to say farewell.
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
He gains enough who loses sorrow.
He gains much who loses a vain hope.
He gangs early to steal, that cannot say Na.
He gapes like a clown at a fair.
He gat his kail in a riven dish.
He gathers up ashes and scatters flour.
He gets a tailwind who bothers to wait.
He gets green light.
He gets green way.
He gets his passage for nothing and then
winks at the captain's wife.
He gets his wisdom cheaply who gets it at
another's cost.
He getteth a great deal of credit, who payeth
but a small debt.
He gives a party with bath-water.
He gives from caliph's bag.
He gives him roast meat and beats him with
the spit.
He gives neither too little, nor too much.
He gives nothing who does not give himself.
He gives straw to his dog and bones to his
horse.
He gives too late who waits to be asked.
He gives twice who gives in a trice.
He gives twice who gives quickly.
He gives well and bountifully who
accompanies the gift with a pleasing
look.
He giveth twice who giveth in a trice.
He goes about it like a cat round hot milk.
He goes around it like a cat goes around hot
mush.
He goes as willingly as a thief to the
gallows.
He goes beyond the bounds.
He goes not out of his way that goes to a
good inn.
He goes safely to trial whose father is a
judge.
He goes safely who has nothing.
He goes to see fire in the house.
He got into this affair like Pilate into the
Credo.
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He got it from nature as the pig got the
rooting in the ground.
He got out of the bed with the left leg.
He got out of the bucket and got into the
pail.
He got out of the mud and fell into the river.
He guards it, him like his eyesight.
He had need rise betimes who would please
everybody.
He had need rise early who would please
everybody.
He hangs out the dirty linen, to the public.
He hangs the May-branch at every door.
He has a coat-affair.
He has a crap for a' corn.
He has a finger in every pie.
He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin.
He has a head, and so has a pin.
He has a saw for a' sairs.
He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom
is out.
He has a very hard heart who does not love
May.
He has a wolf-conscience.
He has already one foot in the grave.
He has an eye in his neck.
He has beans in his ears.
He has caught the leg of God.
He has come to good by misguiding.
He has command of the sack who is seated
on it.
He has coosten his cloak on the ither
shouther.
He has discovered the sealing wax.
He has done like the Perugian who, when
his head was broken, ran home for his
helmet.
He has drunk the juice of the flower of the
wild aloe.
He has eaten his corn in the blade.
He has eaten so many snakes that has
become a viper.
He has enough to do who holds the handle
of a frying-pan.