Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Men are like bagpipes no sound comes from
them until they're full.
Men are like fish; the great ones devour the
small.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than
to requite kindnesses.
Men are not angels.
Men are not measured in inches.
Men are not weighed by hundredweight,
but by the ounce, like gold.
Men are punished by their sins, not for
them.
Men are rare.
Men are very generous with what costs
them nothing.
Men build houses; women build homes.
Men can acquire knowledge, but not
wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever
known were learned men.
Men can bear all things except good days.
Men count up the faults of those who keep
them waiting.
Men cut large thongs of other men's leather.
Men die but words live on.
Men die, but writing remains.
Men dig their graves with their teeth.
Men do not know liberality.
Men do not limp while their legs are the
same length.
Men don't build on strange ground.
Men don't die of threats.
Men eat fish -- thanks to the sauce.
Men fall only in order to rise.
Men fated to be happy need not haste.
Men fear death as children do going in the
dark.
Men fear, but time fears the pyramids.
Men for tea, women for talk.
Men get wealth and women keep it.
Men go not laughing to heaven.
Men goes over the dike at the laichest.
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is
no cure for it.
Men have got quills.
Men have thought about their marriage a
whole year long -- and it lasts but one
night.
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Men have three ears: one on the left of the
head, one on the right of the head, and
one in the heart.
Men in glass houses should not throw
stones.
Men in office must work hard.
Men in the game are blind to what men
looking on see clearly
Men in the game are blind to what men
looking on see clearly.
Men know not all their faults, oxen all their
strength.
Men laugh with their heart, women only
with their mouth.
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
Men learn little from success, but much from
failure.
Men learn oratory by practice.
Men like guests more than women do.
Men look more like their uncles on the
mother's side.
Men made money; money never made men.
Men make houses, women make homes.
Men make laws; women make morals.
Men make the earth black from green
leaves.
Men make wealth, and women preserve it.
Men may buy Gold over dear.
Men meet, only mountains do not.
Men must sail while the wind serveth.
Men must sew up tears with gentleness.
Men never moan over the opportunities lost
to do good, only the opportunities to be
bad.
Men prefer the wife of another but love their
own sons more.
Men prone to tears are good.
Men see more of the business of others than
of their own.
Men see only the present; heaven sees the
future.
Men seek a warm hearth as termites seek
rotten wood.
Men seek less to be instructed than
applauded.
Men should swim in big waters.