Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Many people who have gold in the house
are looking for copper outside.
Many promises impair confidence.
Many pupils have gained more wealth than
their masters.
Many purses holds friends together.
Many rats never drill holes.
Many return from the war who cannot give
an account of the battle.
Many scruple to spit in church, and
afterwards defile the altar.
Many see more with one eye that others
with two.
Many seek good nights and lose good days.
Many seek good nights and waste good
days.
Many shun the brook, and fall into the river.
Many shun the sword, and come to the
gallows.
Many small brooks will form a big river.
Many small creeks make a big river.
Many small make a great.
Many small streams make a large river.
Many smalls makes a great.
Many speak much who cannot speak well.
Many speaks of Robin Hood, that never shot
in his Bow.
Many stars cannot be concealed by a small
cloud.
Many stop their noses at ambergris.
Many straws may bind and elephant.
Many students have become kings or
queens, but no teachers have.
Many take by the bushel, and give with the
spoon.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like
fools.
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Many things are too bad to be blessed, and
too good to be cursed.
Many things grow in the garden that were
never sown there.
Many tines the half-mark whinger for the
half-penny whang.
Many trades, begging the best.
Many who build castles in the air cannot
build a hut on earth.
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Many who have gold in the house are
looking for copper outside.
Many who kiss the child mean the nurse.
Many will hate you if you love yourself.
Many will show the way after the carriage
has overturned.
Many will show you the way once your cart
has overturned.
Many will show you the way once your cart
has overturned.
Many women, many words.
Many women, many words; many geese,
many turds.
Many words do not fill a basket.
Many words don't fill the sack.
Many words fills not the furlot.
Many words would have meikle drink.
Many words, little credit.
March cold reaches even bull's horns.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like
a lamb.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like
a lamb
March makes one look through the door,
and makes one burn hoes and shovels.
March sun ages women.
March Whisquer was never a good Fisher.
March winds and April showers bring forth
May flowers
March, mean, son of an ogre! You've taken
all my suckling lambs and left only one
weaned lamb. - Oh April, my brother,
give me two days, because alone, I don't
have them.
Marking the Boat to Seek One's Sword.
Marriage and maids, don't suggest them
because you'll be cursed.
Marriage and shroud, from heaven will
come.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys,
and quadruples our expenses.
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot.
Marriage is a covered dish.