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Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs Let sleeping dogs lie Let someone else acknowledge your virtues. Let someone else sing your praise. Let the ant eater go away so that we may sun-dry the flying ant. Let the bait hide the hook. Let the big dog eat. Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water. Let the buyer be on his guard. Let the buyer beware. Let the cobbler Paul grumble, he should only make good sandals. Let the cobbler stick to his last. Let the crab take counsel with its leg. Let the dead bury the dead Let the dead bury their dead. Let the dead rest. Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar. Let the devil into church and he will climb into the pulpit. Let the devil never find you unoccupied. Let the dog bark at me, so he don't bite me. Let the dog bark so he don't bite me. Let the dogs bark; it's a sign that we are galloping ahead. Let the first urge pass, wait for the second. Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak. Let the guest come so that the host may benifit. Let the guest go before the storm bursts. Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs. Let the hen urinate if she says it is so easy to do so. Let the horns gang with the hide. Let the ignorant learn, and the learned delight in refreshing the memory. Let the injurer not forget. Let the kirk stand in the kirkyard. Let the kite hawk have a perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing. Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not 390 the man who has travelled. Let the miracle be wrought, though it be by the devil. Let the morn come and the meat wi't. Let the one with a child hold it tight. Let the other party be heard too. Let the past drift away with the water. Let the poor man mind his tongue. Let the punishment fit the crime Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing. Let the shoemaker remain at his last. Let the sleeping dog lie. Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon. Let the sword decide after the stratagem has failed. Let the sword decide only after the plan has failed. Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing. Let the water pass before you can boast. Let the water you cannot drink flow by. Let the wormy of it drop off. Let them be birds. Let them care that come behind. Let them hate, so that they fear me. Let them laugh that win. Let them talk of men, and beg of me. Let them that are cold blow at the coal. Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home. Let there be a visitor and the owner of the village will live. (a visitor is always an asset to his host) Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it. Let there be no delay. Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon- house, and the pigeons will come to it. Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write.