Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life,
and he fears an old age.
Man grows up, felt wears out.
Man hab cow him look fi milk.
Man has a thousand plans, heaven but one.
Man has his own will, but woman has her
own way.
Man has responsibility, not power.
Man has succeeded in overcoming
tremendous spaces, but not the distance
between one man and another.
Man hopes until his death.
Man invented language to satisfy is deep
need to complain.
Man is a faggot of thorns.
Man is a hunter.
Man is a wolf to man.
Man is after money, but money is after his
soul.
Man is always beaten by his own tricks.
Man is always in a scurry.
Man is capable of all things.
Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil
comes and blows.
Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes
with a bellows.
Man is greater than the tools he invents.
Man is harder than a stone and more brittle
than an egg.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone
and more fragile than a rose.
Man is harder than rock and more fragile
than an egg.
Man is heaven and earth in miniature.
Man is himself the author of every sorrow
he endures.
Man is his own devil.
Man is his own mirror.
Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in
ignorance.
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the
bunch, he gets skinned.
Man is like a bird: a bird can fly higher and
higher, but only if its wings continue to
move without stopping.
Man is like a breath, his days like a passing
shadow.
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Man is like a bubble of water on the ocean.
Man is like a palm on the beach; moving
with the wind of life.
Man is like a pepper; till you have chewed it
you do not know how hot it is.
Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet
but without strength; in old age, strong
but harsh.
Man is like pepper -- you only know him
when you've ground him.
Man is like the sea: if he doesn't produce
today, he'll produce tomorrow.
Man is man's wolf.
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does
not know.
Man is preceded by forest and followed by
desert.
Man is the flower of the earth.
Man is the head and woman is the crown
upon it.
Man is the head of the family, woman the
neck that turns the head.
Man is the instrument of illness.
Man is the only animal who can be skinned
twice.
Man is the only mammal that can be
skinned more than once.
Man is to man a wolf, man is to man a
demon.
Man is valued for his word, the ox for his
horns.
Man learns from the cradle to the grave.
Man learns little from success, but much
from failure.
Man longs to see that which he is afraid to
see.
Man loses his good judgement over women
and wine.
Man loves but once.
Man loves his own mistakes.
Man makes plans, and God laughs.
Man must be sharpened on man, like knife
on stone.
Man no hab gourdy, him satisfy wid bottle.
Man noh dead, noh call 'im duppy.