Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A liar is not believed when he speaks the
truth.
A liar is sooner caught than a cripple.
A liar is worse than a thief.
A liar must have a good memory.
A liar’s candle will burn until bed-time.
A liar’s house is on fire and no one believes
him.
A liar’s punishment: even when he tells the
truth, people don’t believe him.
A library is a repository of medicine for the
mind.
A lie becomes true when one believes it.
A lie can annihilate a thousand truths.
A lie can be halfway around the world
before the truth gets its boots on.
A lie can take you far away – but with no
hope of return.
A lie can travel half way around the world
while the truth is still putting on its
shoes.
A lie doesn’t have a foot to stand on.
A lie has many variations, the truth none.
A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.
A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings.
A lie has no legs, but scandalous wings.
A lie has no legs.
A lie has short legs.
A lie is like a jump from a high roof.
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
A lie runs until truth catches up to it.
A lie travels farther than the truth.
A lie travels round the world while truth is
putting her boots on.
A lie’s legs are short.
A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are
two things.
A life with love is happy; a life for love is
foolish.
A life without love is like a year without
summer.
A light belly, heavy heart.
A light burden’s heavy if far borne.
A light cinch is best.
A light heart lives long.
A light heart lives longest.
A light is still a light, even though the blind
man cannot see it.
A light is still a light-even though the blind
man cannot see it.
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
A light supper is beneficial.
A lion at home, and a fox abroad.
A lion can run faster than we can, but we
can run farther.
A lion cannot hear its own roar.
A lion does not eat its own cubs.
A lion doesn’t fear a fly.
A lion lurks in everyone’s heart; awake him
not.
A lion may be beholden to a mouse.
A lion on me and an ostritch in war.
A list full of gain and a village full of
shame.
A list of most of the commonly-used
proverbs in the English language, with
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of them.
A litigious man, a liar.
A little absence does a lot of good.
A little absence does much good.
A little and a little, collected together,
becomes a great deal; the heap in the
barn consists of single grains, and drop
and rope makes an inundation.
A little arm follows another.
A little axe can cut down a big tree.
A little axe, when well used, brings lots of
food.
A little bird wants but a little nest.
A little bit of experience is better than a bar-
rel full of knowledge.
A little bit of powder and a little bit of paint
make a woman look like what she ain’t.
A little body doth often harbour a great
soul.
A little body often harbours a great soul.
A little courtesy will go a long way.
A little debt makes a debtor, a great one an
enemy.
A little dinner, long expected and cold, is by
no means given, but dearly sold.
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