Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Leave a great talker in the middle of the
street.
Leave a jest when it pleases lest it turn to
earnest.
Leave aff as lang as the play's good.
Leave evil, it will leave you.
Leave her now and then if you would really
love your wife.
Leave her now and then if you would really
love your wife.
Leave in the daylight, don't leave in the
dark.
Leave no nail unclenched.
Leave not your staff at home.
Leave others in peace, care for yourself.
Leave the bad tale where you found it.
Leave the court ere the court leave you.
Leave the Court, ere the Court leave thee.
Leave the hot fire and help the woman in
labor.
Leave the jest at its best.
Leave the minster where it is.
Leave the spool to the artisan.
Leave welcome behind you.
Leave well alone! You wont improve
matters by going on tinkering.
Leave well alone.
Leave well enough alone.
Leaves enough, but few grapes.
Leaving, leaving does not find a shirt. (To
get what you want you need to be
patient.)
Left from there, driven from here.
Lend a false ear to false words.
Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to
your friends but give your lips only to a
woman.
Lend money and acquire an enemy.
Lend money to someone who won't pay you
back and he'll hate you.
Lend only what you can afford to lose.
Lend to God and the earth -- they both pay
good interest.
Lend to your friend, and ask payment of
your enemy.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Lending is the firstborn of poverty.
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Lending nourishes bad feeling.
Length begets loathing.
Length of time rots a stone.
Lenin's science strengthens the mind and
the hands.
Lenin's truth makes great strides all around
the world.
Lent, which seems so long, is short at other
men's tables.
Leopards lurk in dark corners.
Less advice and more hands.
Less good than they say for the sons of men
is the drinking oft of ale: for the more
they drink, the less can they think and
keep a watch o'er their wits.
Less is more.
Less malevolence, or more power to exercise
it.
Less of your courtesy, and more of your
purse.
Less said, more done.
Let a child have its will, and it will not cry.
Let a dog get at a dish of honey, and he will
jump in with both legs.
Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass
for a sage.
Let a good man do good deeds with the
same zeal that the evil man does bad
ones.
Let a horse drink what he will, but no when
he will.
Let a horse drink when he will, not what he
will.
Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have
his wax taper.
Let a sleeping dog lie.
Let a strong man pass.
Let a wrong-doing repeat itself at least three
times: the first may be an accident, the
second a mistake, but the third is likely
to be intentional.
Let alone makes many lurden.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks
to be thy heir.
Let another man praise thee, not thine own
mouth.