Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Lazybones take all day to get started.
Le cycle de la Lune est compris entre 29 et
30 jours.
Lead a pig to the Rhine, it remains a pig.
Lead for old iron.
Leadership shortens life.
Leading by example is better than giving
and advice.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
Lean meat from a fat pig.
Lear young, lear fair.
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
Learn about the future by looking at the
past.
Learn as you'd live forever; live as you'd die
tomorrow.
Learn fe dance at home before you go
abroad.
Learn from your tears and you will win
laughing.
Learn good manners from those who don't
have them.
Learn politeness from the impolite.
Learn steer, you will turn an ox.
Learn thou of learned men, th' unlearned of
thee; for thus must knowledge
propagated be.
Learn to creep before you run.
Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll
never handle a begging-bowl.
Learn to obey before you command.
Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his
skin; learn to know a human being and
you only know his face.
Learn to rise up out of the enigmatic egg in
the hidden land.
Learn to stand up where one falls.
Learn to walk before you can run (You have
to learn to crawl before you can walk).
Learn to walk before you run.
Learn weeping, and you shall gain laughing.
Learn what you want and leave or others.
Learn who are your friends when you are in
need.
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Learn you to an ill use arid ye'll ca't custom.
Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn
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Learn your gudewife to mak milk kail.
Learned doctors are stars on earth.
Learned fools are the greatest fools.
Learned fools exceed all fools.
Learned young is done old.
Learning expands great souls.
Learning has sour roots, but pleasant fruits.
Learning how the Handan residents walk.
Learning is a golden urn that can never be
stolen.
Learning is a treasure no thief can touch.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its
owner everywhere.
Learning is a treasure which accompanies its
owner everywhere.
Learning is better than becoming rich.
Learning is better than house and land.
Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and
riches for the poor man.
Learning is for life, eating is for today.
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to
advance is to drop back.
Learning is like sailing the ocean: no one has
ever seen it all.
Learning is there for every man.
Learning is treasure no thief can touch.
Learning is weightless, treasure you can
always carry easily.
Learning makes a good man better and a
bad man worse.
Learning makes a man fit company for
himself as well as for others.
Learning makes people fit company for
themselves.
Learning makes some into Mullahs and
some into devils.
Learning makes the wise wiser, but the fool
more foolish.
Learning means loving the country.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and
dung. Before you understand it, it's like
gold; after you understand it, it's like
dung.
Least said is soonest mended.
Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies.