Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He who does not wish for little things does
not deserve big things.
He who does not work, must not eat.
He who does nothing does ill.
He who does the wrong forgets it, but not
he who receives it.
He who does what he likes, does not what
he ought.
He who doesn’t clean his mouth before
breakfast always complains that the food
is sour.
He who doesn’t like chattering women must
stay a bachelor.
He who doesn't console the bereaved will
never be mourned by others.
He who doesn't cry doesn't suckle.
He who doesn't die on the battlefield slips in
the bathtub.
He who doesn't fart, lets out silent ones.
He who doesn't feel jealousy is not in love.
He who doesn't find is way back from the
forest gets lost within it.
He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion.
He who doesn't know a grave's coldness,
doesn't give the dead their respect.
He who doesn't know how a snake smells
shouldn't walk into the forest.
He who doesn't know what kills can sit on
fire.
He who doesn't know where he is going
doesn't know whether or when he will
arrive.
He who doesn't know you, will not value
you.
He who doesn't like chattering women must
stay a bachelor.
He who doesn't listen to advise from others
goes to his parents in-law smeared with
faeces.
He who doesn't look ahead gets left behind.
He who doesn't open his eyes when he buys
must still open his purse to pay.
He who doesn't risk a penny doesn't make a
peso.
He who doesn't risk never gets to drink
champagne.
He who doesn't speak will get no help from
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He who doesn't speak-up is never heard.
He who doth his own business defileth not
his fingers.
He who doth the injury never forgives the
injured man.
He who doubts nothing knows nothing.
He who dreams for too long will become
like his shadow.
He who dresses ion others' clothes will be
undressed on the highway.
He who drinks a little too much drinks
much too much.
He who drinks and walks away lives to
drink another day.
He who drinks no more still likes to see the
beer pulled.
He who drinks on credit, gets drunk twice.
He who drinks water with one hand finds
out his thirst is still there.
He who drinks wine without libation is a
traitor to the gods.
He who drinks, dies; he who does not drink,
dies as well.
He who earns calamity, eats it with his
family.
He who earns his living in the sun, eats in
the shade.
He who eats a partridge in his youth will
only be left with feathers in his old age.
He who eats alone chokes alone.
He who eats alone dies alone.
He who eats alone is Satan's brother.
He who eats an egg foregoes a future meal
of chicken soup.
He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves
the table hungry.
He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for
two meals.
He who eats another man’s food will have
his own food eaten by others.
He who eats bitter things gets sweet things
too.
He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks
getting the pips in his nose.