Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
They grind in two mills.
They had never an ill day, that had a good
evening.
They have a strong love bond; he with
himself and she with herself.
They have buried the hatchet.
They have most bread who have least teeth.
They have slaughtered at Kukwane where
much meat is obtainable.
They have sowed the seed of the word
"tomorrow" and it has not germinated.
They have taken the cow by the horns in
order to milk it better.
They is no distance that has no end.
They is no incence for something rotting.
They is no secret between two people.
They know not their own defects who
search for the defects of others.
They laugh at you when your going but
when you came back with a load they're
a shamed.
They laugh ay that wins.
They laugh till they cry.
They laugh well who laugh last.
They limit their expenditure where it is not
needed, and are ever lavish of that of
which they should be sparing.
They live like cat and dog.
They loo me for little that hate me for
nought.
They look at the greens, but steal the bacon.
They love the old that do not know the new.
They made the garlic a bride, its smell did
not come out for forty days.
They marry under bad auspices who marry
in the month of May.
They match as a stick in a quiver.
They may dunsh that gie the lunch.
They may whip me in the market-place, so it
be not known at home.
They mense little the mouth, that bites off
the nose.
They must be strong legs that can support
prosperous days.
They must hunger in frost that will not work
in heat.
They must hunger in frost who spring-time
630
have lost.
They must stand high who would see their
own destiny.
They need much whom nothing will
content.
They planted so we ate, and we plant so
they would eat.
They play till they quarrel.
They prevent us from getting red clay from
the pit, and they do not use it.
They put at the Cairt, that is ay gangan.
They put the blabbermouth in hell, and he
shouted "The wood is damp!"
They put the nightingale into a golden cage,
yet it still craved for its home.
They put up minds for sale on the market,
everyone liked his own mind.
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen
fly.
They said to the fox, the fox said to its tail.
They say so is half a lie.
They say, is a liar.
They shall beat their swords into
ploughshares.
They snatched from me my own cry.
They sowed "if only" and "if found", and
wind and waste sprang up.
They sowed the seed of an "if" but it didn't
germinate.
They talk of my drinking but never my
thirst.
They that are bound must obey.
They that be whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick.
They that bourd with cats maun count upo'
scarts. Thistles are a sailed for asses.
They that dance must pay the fiddler.
They that drink longest live langest.
They that envy others are their inferiors.
They that give you hinder you to buy.
They that have got good store of butter may
lay it thick on their bread.
They that lie dawn far love should rise up
for hunger.
They that lie down for love shou'd rise for
hunger.