Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A person who never travels, believes his
mother’s cooking is the best in the
world.
A person who picks something and decides
to make it his own, ought to think how
he would feel if he was the person who
lost the property he picked.
A person who say it cannot be done should
not interrupt the man doing it.
A person who sells eggs doesn’t start a fight
in the market.
A person who talks a lot is bound to be
right sometimes.
A person who talks a lot is sometimes right.
A person who talks a lot usually is empty
inside.
A person who talks about his inferiors
hasn’t any.
A person who underneath the tall palm tree
is best positioned to tell on which side
the ripe head is.
A person who uses the world as his
carrying pad will find himself carrying
his load on his bare head.
A person who wants to see people progress
must first set to look into their tradition.
A person who will not take advice gets
knowledge when trouble overtakes him.
A person who wish for something
impossible.
A person whose heart is not content is like a
snake which tries to swallow an
elephant.
A person will change his mind on
something if left to sleep over it.
A person with a bad name is already half
hanged.
A person with a bad name is already half-
hanged.
A person with a wound on his head keeps
touching it.
A person without a culture is a slave.
A person without a smiling face must never
open a shop.
A person worries about the past, distresses
about the present, and fears the future.
A person, who does not hear, learns when
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the axe is in his head.
A person’s character is like pregnancy it
cannot be hidden.
A person’s character reaches town before
the person does.
A person’s cleverness is not shown by how
many words he utters at once but how
he utters them.
A person’s health is in his feet.
A person’s heart is in his feet.
A person’s reputation is like his shadow -
sometimes it follows and sometimes it
precedes him; and sometimes it is
smaller and sometimes it is bigger than
him.
A person’s worst enemy can’t wish on him
what he can think up himself.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
A pessimist, confronted with two bad
choices, chooses both.
A pestilence follows a famine.
A pet child has many names.
A philosopher enlightens the pathway.
A physician is also a man who pours
special drugs into lots of bodies he
rarely loves.
A physician is an angel when employed,
but a devil when one must pay him.
A physician’s neighbor is never a doctor.
A picture is a poem wanting words.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and
yet picture books are for infants.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A picture is worth ten thousand words.
A picture paints a thousand words
A piece of bread in the pocket is better than
a feather in the hat.
A piece of bread in your pocket is better
than a feather in your hat.
A piece of churchyard fits everybody.
A piece of incense may be as large as the
knee, but unless burned emits no fra-
grance.
A piece of iron can only become what the
blacksmith says it should become.
A piece of land is not a little thing.