Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is better to have to do with God than with
his saints.
It is better to hear the nightingale sing than
the mouse gnaw.
It is better to host a good stranger than a bad
brother.
It is better to irritate a dog than an old
woman.
It is better to keep a wolf out of the fold than
to trust drawing his teeth and talons
after he shall have entered.
It is better to keep peace than to make peace.
It is better to know nothing than to half-
know many things.
It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to
the pleadings of good men.
It is better to leave than to lack.
It is better to leave the child's nose dirty than
wring it off.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness.
It is better to live for one day as a tiger than
to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
It is better to look from the mountain than
from the dungeon.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift
than to hoard it like a miser.
It is better to lose than lose more.
It is better to lose the saddle than the horse.
It is better to lose your eyes than to lose your
heart.
It is better to make conditions in the bush
than in prison.
It is better to make money in the straw
market than to lose it in the money
market.
It is better to murder during time of plague.
It is better to pay and have a little left than to
have much and be always in debt.
It is better to prevent than to cure.
It is better to receive awards that you don't
deserve rather than deserve them and
not receive them.
It is better to refuse than to accept and not to
go.
It is better to ride a donkey that carries you
than a horse that throws you.
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It is better to ride for half a year on a good
horse than to spend your entire life
riding on a mule.
It is better to run back than run the wrong
way.
It is better to satisfy our hunger than to be
clothed in purple.
It is better to save your innocence at the cost
of your honor, than to save your country
at the cost of your life.
It is better to say nothing than not enough.
It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel
it.
It is better to see for oneself than to be
informed by a third person.
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is
better to lie down than to sit, but death is
the best of all.
It is better to sit with a wise man in prison
than with a fool in paradise.
It is better to skip one meal than to consult a
hundred doctors.
It is better to start weaving your fishing nets
than merely coveting fish at the water.
It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than
to carry the wood on one's back.
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper
by falsehood.
It is better to suffer in name the truth than
being rewarded for lying.
It is better to sup with a cutty than want a
spoon.
It is better to talk to a woman and think of
God, than talk to God and think of a
woman.
It is better to tell your money where to go
than to ask where it went.
It is better to travel alone than with a bad
companion.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
It is better to trust the eyes rather than the
ears.
It is better to turn back than go astray.
It is better to turn back than to persevere in
an evil course.