Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
People count up the faults of those who
keep them waiting.
People die voluntarily when it becomes
impossible to live.
People don’t care how much you know until
they know how much you care.
People don't thank someone who doesn't
thank God.
People follow the religion/ ways of their
kings.
People follow the winner.
People fool themselves. They pray for a long
life but fear old age.
People get the government they deserve.
People get to know one another when
traveling.
People hate what they do not understand.
People helping one another can bring an
elephant into the house.
People in trouble remember Allah.
People lend only to the rich.
People live in each other's shelter.
People live like birds in the woods: When
the time comes, each must take flight.
People live with their own idiosyncrasies
and die of their own illnesses.
People make plans and God laughs.
People make the bells say what they please.
People may pass judgment without
knowing the truth; God always renders
punishment because God knows the
whole truth.
People must eat, even were every tree a
gallows.
People of the cave's slumber.
People often change and seldom for the
better.
People pretend to dislike what they cannot
get.
People say that time goes by; time says that
the people go by.
People seek out big shots as flies seek out
the elephant's tail.
People should be mourned at their birth, not
at their death.
People should not talk while they are eating
or pepper may go down the wrong way.
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People show their character by what they
laugh at.
People slander somebody even if they do
not despise him.
People sometimes do all the wrong things
for all the right reasons.
People take more pains to be damned than
to be saved.
People talk about something until it actually
happens.
People tend to be attracted to what most
benefits them.
People think that the poor are not as wise as
the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he
poor?
People want to avoid the dew before they
become wet.
People who are asleep can't fall down.
People who do not break things first will
never learn to create anything.
People who do not mend things first will
never produce something.
People who drink to drown their sorrows,
should be told that sorrow knows how to
swim.
People who fight on the ground should not
go up the tree together.
People who have bread to eat do not
appreciate the severity of a famine.
People who have little to do are excessive
talkers.
People who have not secret agreement are
beaten by a single club.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't
throw stones.
People who love one another do not dwell
on each other’s mistakes.
People will ignore their misfortunes and
their interests when they are in
competition with their pleasures.
People with money and friends don't esteem
justice.
People with much ado usually don't know
shallow.
People with the same disease share
sympathy.