Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The worst pig eats the best acorn.
The worst pig gets the best pear.
The worst pig often gets the best pear.
The worst things in life are: To be in bed and
sleep not, To want for one who comes
not, To try to please and please not.
The worst wheel always creaks most.
The worst wheel creaks most.
The worst wheel makes most noise.
The worst wheel of a cart creaks most.
The worst world that ever was, some man
wan.
The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in
lies, you can't undo it.
The worth of a thing is best kent by the want
o't.
The worth of a thing is best known by the
want.
The worth of a thing Is what it will bring.
The wound caused by a sword can
eventually be healed; the hurt resulted
from vicious remarks can never be
undone.
The wound heals, the scar remains.
The wound of words is worse than the
wound of swords.
The wound that bleeds inwardly is the most
dangerous.
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils.
The wrong doer is never without a pretext.
The wrongdoer forgets, but not the
wronged.
The wrong-doer never lacks excuses.
The wrong-headed fool who refuses
counsel, will come to grief.
The Yangtse never runs backwards; man
recaptures not his youth.
The yawn doesn't lie: it wants you to eat or
sleep.
The year has a wide mouth and a big belly.
The yellow dog is brother to the wolf.
The yellow dung-fly makes the loudest
hum.
The yew tree exists three hundred years:
first green, then dry, then gone.
The young birds sings like the old birds.
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The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
The young cock crows as he hears the old
one.
The young cock said to the young chicken:
the whole world is like our home.
The young crow is wiser than its mother.
The young goose is a good swimmer.
The young laugh when the old fall.
The young magpie that pulls feathers out of
his mother thinks that he is showing
gratitude in that way.
The young man plays the flute, the middle
aged man plays the harpsichord, the old
man plays the organ.
The young may die, the old must die.
The young pay for the old.
The young pig must often suffer for what
the old sow did.
The young ravens are beaked like the old.
The young shed many skins.
The young should be taught, the old should
be honored.
The youngest thorns are the sharpest.
The youth walks faster than the elderly but
the elderly knows the road.
The zawan of your own country is better
than the wheat of strangers.
The zebra told the white horse, "I am white,"
and told the black horse, "I am actually
black."
Their dogs don't hunt in couples.
Their harms, our arms.
Their mosquito won't bite me.
Them short fe singer when dem put peacock
in a choir.
Them that likesna water brose will scunner
at cauld steerie.
Theologians, dogs, and singers always
disagree.
Theory dominates practice.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one
kind of common sense.
There are a hundred owners besides you
until the wheat is harvested.