Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Honesty is praised and left to starve.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty lasts longest.
Honesty makes you rich, but she works
slowly.
Honesty with poverty is better than ill-
gotten wealth.
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
Honey catches most flies.
Honey cloys.
Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.
Honey in the mouth, bile in the heart.
Honey is bitter for a sore mouth.
Honey is never far away from the sting.
Honey is not for asses.
Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
Honey is often bitter.
Honey is one thing, the price is another.
Honey is sweet but bees sting.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Honey was not made for the mouth of the
ass.
Honeyed speech often conceals poison and
gall.
Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and
unprincipled in conduct.
Honing your hatchet will not delay your
effort of wood cutting.
Honor a child and he will honor you.
Honor and money cannot go in the same
sack.
Honor buys no meat in the market.
Honor buys no meat in the market. Hope is
a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Honor follows those who flee from it.
Honor goes to God; the priests get the
bacon.
Honor is better than honors.
Honor is determined by your dress.
Honor is greater than wealth; wealth is only
an instrument to attain honor.
Honor is more important than life.
Honorable is the person who is aware of his
power, yet refrains from inflicting bad
things onto others.
Honour a good man that he may honour
you, and a bad man that he may not
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dishonour you.
Honour and profit will not keep in one sack.
Honour blossoms on the grave.
Honour buys no beef.
Honour once lost never returns.
Honour the old, teach the young.
Honour the tree that gives you shelter.
Honour to whom honour is due.
Honour your father and your mother, so
that you should live long.
Honourable words by the bushel.
Honours change manners.
Honour's onerous.
Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one
place.
Hooting all right and sleeping all day,
doesn't make an owl wise.
Hope and expectation are a fool's income.
Hope and strive is the way to thrive.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Hope dies last of all.
Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of
getting what I seek another day.
Hope for a miracle, but don't rely on it.
Hope for God, but do not be reliant.
Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one
happening.
Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Hope for the best.
Hope gives strength and courage, and saves
an otherwise dying man from his grave.
Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper.
Hope is a good thing and good things never
die.
Hope is a great breakfast but a poor dinner.
Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the
yolk, another the white, and a third the
shell.
Hope is grief's best music.
Hope is life.
Hope is our only comfort in adversity.
Hope is the bread of the poor.
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.