Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The quoit attracts them more than
philosophy.
The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the
others to be happy.
The rabbi is just the man who knows the
torah - he is not the torah itself.
The rabbit gets fat on what the hare misses.
The rabbit has a saying which goes: 'if you
were born a male then you are given
impossible tasks.'
The rabbit that dances on the broken branch
of a high tree must look down to see how
many mouths are opened wide beneath.
The rabble is not influenced by reason, but
blind impulse.
The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and
hates a favourite in disgrace.
The race is not always to the swift.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to
the strong.
The rack can extort a false confession from
the innocent.
The radiant and well-understood speech of
one person is better than the speech of a
thousand people that is not.
The radiate sun reflections and lightening
cannot make a blind person see.
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if
he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth
shut.
The rain does not all fall on one roof.
The rain does not recognize anyone as a
friend; it drenches all equally.
The rain falls on only one roof.
The rain falls upon the just and the unjust.
The rain follows after the forest.
The rain that is going to fall doesn't wet you.
The rain wets the leopard's spots but does
not wash them off.
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all
things.
The rainbow might be better lookin' if
'twasn't such a cheap show.
The rainbow would be even more beautiful
if the show was not for free.
The raised hand cares not for its own
590
recognition, but for that of the body
below.
The ram that is shown around is not fat.
The rambling pole-cat leaves its house when
there is banquet.
The rat betrayed by his own track perishes.
The rat cannot call the cat to account.
The rat does not leave the cat's house with a
bellyful.
The rat knows full well that, if the cat is old
and feeble, its claws are not.
The rat on the roof revealed the one on the
rubbish pile. (Present wrong doings can
remind of past wrong doings.)
The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.
The rat that knows but one hole is soon
caught by the cat.
The rat that knows but one hole is soon
caught.
The rat who only knows about one hole will
soon be caught by the cat.
The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf
basket, still both are full of holes.
The raven always thinks that her young
ones are the whitest.
The raven chides blackness.
The raven is fair when the rook is not by.
The raven sees its chickens as falcons.
The razor against the grindstone.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The real capital of a man is a mirror worth
two cents.
The real cost for both a neat house and a
well kept vineyard is incalculable.
The real eater is todays eater not yesterdays.
The real friend tells the bitter truth.
The real hero doesn't say that he is one.
The real journey of discovery begins in old
age.
The real nettle will sting early.
The real owners of the land are not yet born.
The real scholar is not afraid to ask
questions of his pupil.
The real unlucky one will sprain his thumb
when he blows his nose.
The real world is a special case.