Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The fuller the cask, the duller its sound.
The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.
The full-fed sheep is frightened at its own
tail.
The fun is in the search, not the finding.
The furthest way about is the nearest way
home.
The future belongs to the man who rises
early.
The future belongs to those who prepare for
it.
The future emerges from the past.
The future is for those who know how to
wait.
The future struggles against being mastered.
The gallows is not made for the rich, but for
the head of the peasant.
The gallows takes its own.
The gallows was made for the unlucky.
The gallows will have its own at last.
The gambler breaks all of the ten
commandments.
The game is not worth the candle.
The gardener had not yet dug out the
radish, when the beggar held the alms-
bowl in front of him.
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a
thousand thorns.
The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and
will not let others eat it.
The gardener's dog neither eats greens not
lets any one else eat them.
The gardener's feet do no harm to the
garden.
The gardner had not yet dug out the radish,
when the beggar held the alms-bowl in
front of him.
The garlic said to the onion: 'you stink.'
The garment of peace never fades.
The garret is full of promises.
The gatekeepers are worse than the
directors.
The gates of hell are always open, even at
midnight.
The gauge has overflown.
The gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor man perfected without
556
trials.
The gem of the sky is the sun; the gem of the
house is the child.
The generous and bold have the best lives.
The generous can forget that they have
given, but the grateful can never forget
that they have received.
The generous man enriches himself by
giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
The generous man grows rich in giving, the
miser poor in taking.
The generous man pays for nothing so much
as what is given him.
The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
The gentle hawk mans herself.
The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its
mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its
own nor another.
The Germans carry their wit in their fingers.
The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the
kitchen and the French in bed.
The ghosts gossip among each other.
The giant tree grows from a grain.
The 'gicegu' of many men is not good.
The gift itself can be light while carrying a
heavy message.
The gifts of fortune do not always benefit us.
The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is
wrought.
The girl is more inviting who smells of wild
thyme than she who smells of musk.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't
play.
The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like
the moonlight.
The giver makes the gift precious.
The giver of the blow forgets, the bearer of
the scar remembers.
The glaciers didn't freeze overnight.
The gladiator seeks advice, when in the very
lists.
The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he
looked on to see which kicked hardest.
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a
man from winning glory for himself.
The glow soon becomes ashes.