Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Racklesse youth makes a goustie age.
Radish is poison in the morning, food at
noon and medicine in the evening.
Rage avails less than courage.
Rage is not without reason.
Rage, shame; he threw away the maize flour
for the feast of remembrance. (If you are
angry do not destroy things because you
will regret it later.)
Ragged colts make fine horses.
Ragged colts make the handsomest stallions.
Rags to riches to rags.
Rain and the hoe make onions.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not
wash out the spots.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not
wash out the spots.
Rain beats on a leopard's skin, but it does
not wash out the spots.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Rain comes oft after sunshine, and after a
dark cloud a clear sky.
Rain destroys crops at its departure.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
Rain does not make friends with anybody --
it falls on any person it meets outside.
Rain does not stay in the sky.
Rain falls alike on the just and the unjust.
Rain falls on everyone, but one person gets
wetter than the rest.
Rain in August portend crickets in the tea
kettle.
Rain wets a leopard's skin, but it does not
wash out the spots.
Rain wets the leopard's spots, but it doesn't
wash them off.
Rain, rain, go away, come again another
day.
Raindrops come heavy on a house
unthatched.
Rained on ground hardens.
Raining cats and dogs.
Rains always follow the forest.
Rainy March, beehives full of worms, and
rams with colds.
Raise no more devils than you can lay.
Raise no more spirits than you can conjure
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Raise ravens and they will peck our your
eye.
Raise what you've given birth to.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet
of wind.
Raised children, doubled work.
Raising children engenders love.
Rare commodities are worth more than
good.
Rare is agreement between beauty and
modesty.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults
of another without putting his thumb on
the scale.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults
of another without putting his thumb on
the scale.
Rarely is a fight continued when the chief
has fallen.
Rat belly full, potato have skin.
Rat no dey born rabbit.
Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly.
Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie.
Rather a husband with one eye than with
one son.
Rather a man without a cow for the summer
than without a wife for Christmas night.
Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart
than wealth with grief.
Rather a single grape for me than a brace of
figs for thee.
Rather a slip of the foot than a slip of the
pen.
Rather alone than in bad company.
Rather an ass that carries than a horse that
throws.
Rather be a slave to a rich man than the
spouse of a poor man.
Rather free in a foreign place than a slave
back home.
Rather go rob with good men than pray
with bad.
Rather hat in hand than hand in purse.