Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Keep your foot on the mark.
Keep your friends close and your enemies
closer
Keep your friends close but remember to
keep your enemies closer.
Keep your friendship in repair.
Keep your house and your house will keep
you.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Keep your mouth, and keep your friend.
Keep your nose out of another's mess.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
Keep your own counsel.
Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-
maws.
Keep your powder dry
Keep your secret in your own gourdy.
Keep your shop and your shop will keep
you.
Keep your sickness until Friday and don't
fast.
Keep your tongue a prisoner, and your body
will gang free.
Keep your tongue in your jaw and your tow
in your pump.
Keep your tongue within your teeth.
Keep your weather-eye open.
Keep yourself from opportunities and God
will keep you from sins.
Keeping a secret is a commitment.
Keeping a woman to her word is like trying
to hold an eel by its tail.
Keeping an eye on the sail.
Keeping from falling is better than helping
up.
Keeping is harder than winning.
Keeping silence won't get you to court.
Keeping the finger on the wrist.
Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll
get more from it.
Ken when to spend and when to spare, and
ye needna be busy, and ye'll ne'er be
bare.
Kend fouk's nae company.
Kettledrum's sound is nice when heard from
afar.
Kick away the ladder and your feet are left
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dangling.
Kicking in an open door.
Kif is like fire; a little warms, a great deal
burns.
Kiils the victim and walks in his wake.
Kill a chicken before a monkey.
Kill a cow to donate shoes.
Kill a hen to get the egg.
Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be
killed who kills thee.
Kill no more than you can salt, or you will
have tainted meat.
Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.
Kill one to warn a hundred.
Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Kill two birds with the one stone.
Kill two vultures with one arrow.
Kill your anger while it is small.
Killing a bad monarch is not to be
considered murder but justice.
Killing a man to save the world, does not
save the world.
Killing the dog does not heal the bite.
Killing the snake is to cut off the head. (To
finish a problem it is important to start
with the source of it.)
Killing two birds with one stone.
Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
Kin relationship is a bone, it never rots. (The
bond of kin family relationship is
stronger than any other relationship or
friendship.)
Kin relationship is a scar, it cannot be
erased. (Kinship relationship never
dissolve, even when things are not going
well, the relationship remains.)
Kind hearts are better than fair faces.
Kind hearts are more than coronets
Kind master, give me hay for all of April.
Kind words and few are a woman's
ornament.
Kind words are worth much and cost little.
Kind words are worth much and they cost
little.