Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The cow knows not what her tail is worth
until she has lost it.
The cow licks no strange calf.
The cow may dee ere the grass grow.
The cow must graze where she is tied.
The cow of another has always a bigger
udder.
The cow steps on the calf, but she does not
hate it.
The cow that does not eat with the oxen,
either eats before or after them.
The cow that drops her calf in the sun feeds
it there too.
The cow that has stepped on the mud is as-
sumed to have drunk water.
The cow that's first up gets the first of the
dew.
The cow with no tail can only depend on
goats to rid himself of flies.
The coward falls.
The coward shoots with shut eyes.
The cowherd who has fodder has bread, and
if he doesn't have fodder then he ends up
without oxen and without bread.
The cowl does not make the monk.
The cow's hind hooves follow the front ones.
The cows that low most give the least milk.
The crab has stuck fast between the stones at
the entrance of its hole.
The crab instructs its young: "Walk straight
ahead -- like me."
The crab that walks miles too far will fall
into the pot.
The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.
The crab would catch the hare.
The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
The crane was killed by the fishhook.
The Craw thinks her awn Bird fairest.
The creaking of the door deprives me of no
sleep.
The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth
comes out.
The creditor gets a pledge from the good
payer.
The cricket cries, the year changes.
The cricket is never blinded by the sand of
its burrowing.
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The crime accuses itself.
The cripple is always the one to open the
dancing.
The cripple is fair in its mother's eyes.
The cripple will always find a stone to kick.
The criticism of a blind man.
The crocodile does not die under the water
so that we can call the monkey to
celebrate its funeral.
The crocodile drinks from the same river as
the centipede.
The crook in the old stick is ill to take out.
The crooked bannock straightens the body.
The cross on his breast, and the devil in his
heart.
The crow flew over the sea but returned still
a crow.
The crow flies sky high and lands on a pig.
The crow hold the chilli in the mouth.
The crow is a pretty bird when the jackdaw
is not present.
The crow is clever, but looks at what it eats.
The crow may be caged, but its thoughts are
in the cornfield.
The crow pecks at the ox to clean it -- not to
feed from it.
The crow said: "Oh, my snow-white child".
The crow says the ugliest runt is his own.
The crow that mimics a cormorant gets
drowned.
The crow thinks best of her own chickens.
The crow thinks her own birds fairest.
The crow was killed by the storm -- "He
died by my curse," says the owl.
The crow went traveling abroad and came
back just as black.
The crow will find its mate.
The crowd is not led by the head but by the
heart.
The crown of . . . is modesty.
The crust is part of the loaf.
The crutch of time does more than the club
of Hercules.
The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat
are one.