Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
To run is not necessarily to arrive.
to sail is necesary, survive is not necessary.
To save one man is like saving the world.
To scare a bird is not the best way to catch it.
To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
To scrape the light off one's face.
To search for thorns in the milk.
To see a friend no road is too long.
To see beauty you must have beauty in your
soul.
To see clouds.
To see it rain is better than to be in it.
To seek a woman to the belly.
To seek without finding, equals waste of
time.
To sell honey to one who keeps hives.
To separate the men from the boys.
To serve a mean man may not be profitable.
To serve a prince is like sleeping with a
tiger.
To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is
polite, but serving the young is
humiliating.
To set fire to a church is not so bad as to
speak ill of a virgin.
To set fire to the wood, you need the help of
the wind.
To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
To share is sweet, but to pay is bitter.
To shift Kalabo to another site. (something
impossible to do)
To show one's fist to a blind man is neither a
sin nor a virtue.
To silence another, first be silent yourself.
To sing before breakfast is to weep before
supper.
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb,
and to dance for the blind are three
foolish things.
To sit by the ring and tell the man inside,
'knock him down.'
To skin a mouse.
To sleep (to live) long makes your hair come
out gray
To sleep in between, is to come early. (There
are benefits in being early.)
To sleep in one’s mother’s compartment is
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perfect stupidity
To smell one's own bosom is fit.
To speak French doesn't mean you are
smart.
To speak ill of anyone is to speak ill of
yourself.
To speak is silver, to keep silent is gold.
To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
To speak the name of the dead is to make
him live again.
To speak with the whole heart. (Speak with
confidence.)
To spend much and gain little is the sure
road to ruin.
To spend the night in anger is better than to
spend it repenting.
To spoil a child is to maim it a bit.
To spread the news is to multiply it.
To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose
it.
To start a fight, one does not bring a knife
that cuts but a needle that sews.
To stay close together is not a relationship.
(Just because people stay in close
proximity with one another it does not
necessarily mean they have a good
relationship.)
To stay together is to know each other.
To step in the harmonica.
To stir up a hornet’s nest.
To stir where water is clean. (bring enmity
between people who are in good
relationship is to know what is stirring
it.)
To stop drinking, study a drunkard when
you are sober.
To straighten a tree, but at the beginning. (If
you want children to have good manners
it is best that you instill this in them from
the beginning.)
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
To stumble is not falling down but it is to go
forward.
To stumble is not to fall.