Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Help thyself and heaven will help thee.
Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.
Help your brother's boat across, and your
own will reach the shore.
Help yourself and the God will also help
you.
Help yourself, and God will help you.
Hens are aye free of horse corn.
Hens feet don't spoil the chick.
Hens keep quiet when the cock is around.
Hens like to lay where they see an egg.
Hens perched on top will shit on those be-
low.
Her beauty is the only dowery a beautiful
girl needs.
Her father's fortune will make the ugliest
girl attractive.
Her left hand doesn't know what her right
hand is doing.
Hercules himself could not cope with two
assailants.
Here a buttock, there a buttock. (The person
who moves around a lot is seen
negatively by others)
Here is nothing, hold it tight.
Here lies the rub.
Here there will be different buns, said the
baker, he "sat down" on the bread
shovel.
Here today and gone tomorrow.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Here you do, here you pay.
Heresy is the school of pride.
Heresy may be easier kept out than shook
off.
Herod and Pilate are good friends.
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute
longer.
Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand.
He's a fool that forgets himself.
He's a fool that's fond.
He's a fool who earns a square meal.
He's a fool who promises more than he can
make.
He's a friend at sneezing-time--the most that
can be got from him is a "God bless you."
He's a hawk of a right nest.
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He's a poor beggar that canna gang by ae
door.
He's a proud fox that winna scrape his ain
hole.
He's a silly chief that can neither do nor say.
He's a wise man that leads passion by the
bridle.
He's all hat and no cattle.
He's an Aberdeen man, take his word again.
He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own
fingers.
He's as bold as a lammermuir lion.
He's auld an' cauld an' ill to lie beside.
He's born deaf on that side of the head.
He's digging his own grave.
He's free o' fruit that wants an orchard.
He's got his nose in a gude kail pat.
He's hardly a sour grape, yet behaves like a
raisin.
He's like the craws, he eats himsel' out o'
ply.
He's like the rulers of la Rocca: a lot of
smoke and no meat.
He's like the sing'd cat, better than he's
bonny.
He's like the smith's dog - so wheel used to
the sparks that he'll no burn.
He's looking for the donkey while sitting on
it.
He's mair worth hanging than hauding.
He's more to be pitied than laughed at.
He's no fool who parts with what he can't
keep to get what he shall not lose.
He's no sae daft as he lets on.
He's sairest dung that's paid wi' his ain
wand.
He's ta'en a start and an owerloup.
He's the gear that winna traik.
He's twice fain that sits on a stane.
He's weel wordy sorrow that buys it.
He's weel worthy o' sorrow that buys it wi'
his ain siller.
He's wise that's timely wary.
Hew not too high, lest a chip fall in thine
eye.
Hi is as albatross that observes the ocean.
Hidden dragons, crouching tigers.