Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
To be loved is the best way of being useful.
To be loved, be loveable.
To be lucky you need a little wit.
To be poor is not a sin, it's better to avoid it
anyway.
To be praised is to be ruined.
To be precautious doesn't mean fear phobia.
To be prepared is to have no anxiety.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind
with light.
To be red-haired is better than to be without
a head.
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly
helps.
To be rich with bees and mares, is to be rich
and have nothing.
To be silent is golden, to speak is silvern.
To be simple is a pedestrian virtue, but to
persevere in simplicity is a virtue of spir-
itual giants.
To be slim does not mean having been
pared.
To be slow in giving ant to refuse, are alike.
To be smiled at is not to be loved.
To be staying far from each other, hair has
many names. (Even though people come
from different places they are alike.)
To be successful in love, one must know
how to begin and when to stop.
To be sure that your friend is a friend, you
must go with him on a journey, travel
with him day and night, go with him
near and far.
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be
immortal for one day.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than
to be loved.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but
to be certain is to be ridiculous.
To be used to; Mr. Dragonfly’s tail burnt.
(Don’t become too familiar when doing
things because it can lead to disaster.)
To be willing is only half the job.
To be willing is to be able.
To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
To be without knowledge is to be without
light.
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To be without learning, is to be without
eyes.
To be without silver is better than to be
without honor.
To be worth as much as the H in the ABCs.
To bear children as the tortoise does.
(negligence)
To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.
To become a father is easy, but to be a father
is difficult.
To become a master or a deadman.
To become rich in this world, it needs only
to turn one's back on God.
To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the
sea.
To begin is to be half done.
To believe a business impossible is the way
to make it so.
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it
so.
To believe everything is too much, to believe
nothing is not enough.
To believe in certainty, we must begin by
doubting.
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of
one's life asleep.
To believe is easier than investigation.
To believe with certainty, we must begin by
doubting.
To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
To benefit from a nursing mother's kind-
ness, you must be willing to babysit for
her.
To blame is easy, to do it better is difficult.
To blame the wind for the rain that does not
fall.
To bow the body is easy, to bow the will is
hard.
To buy favor. (to give money or anything for
favor)
To buy the pig in the bag.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is
like calling debauchery the soil of love.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack
on your back.