Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Treat your superior as a father, your equal
as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
Tree that grows crooked will never be
straightened - bad habits learned early in
life are hard to get rid of later.
Tree would bend when it bears fruit.
Trees have already been made into a boat.
Trees often transplanted seldom prosper.
Trees that are frequently transplanted rarely
thrive.
Trees that are together brush against each
other.
Trees that do not bend cannot last the storm.
Tribulations and blessings, if you have
them, keep them.
Trick against trick.
Trickery comes back to its master.
Tricksters cannot shave each other’s heads.
(Rascals are not able to fool each other)
Trifles often lead to serious results.
Trifling at an end, now let us go to the point.
Trim my beard, and I will trim your top-
knot.
Tripe broth, you make much of yourself.
Trot mother, trot father, how should the foal
amble?
Trouble does not come alone.
Trouble don't set up like rain.
Trouble hates nothing as much as a smile.
Trouble is here, so open the gates.
Trouble is the beginning of disaster.
Trouble is to man what rust is to iron.
Trouble never comes alone.
Trouble rides a fast horse.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Trouble will rain on those who are already
wet.
Troubles are like babies: the more they are
nursed, the better they grow.
Trouts are not caught with dry breeches.
Troy is a thing of the past.
True bravery is without witness.
True courage is knowing how to suffer.
True friends are like diamonds, precious
and rare; false ones like autumn leaves,
found everywhere.
True friends are tested in adversity.
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True friends never polish each other.
True friendship does not freeze in the
winter.
True friendship is like one soul living in two
bodies.
True friendship is one soul shared by two
bodies.
True generosity is the ability to accept
ingratitude.
True happiness consists in making others
happy.
True happiness lies in giving it to others.
True jokes never please.
True love burns within the heart, better than
flax and straw.
True Love cannot be extinguished.
True love kythes in time of need.
True love means what's mine is yours.
True love never grows old.
True love suffers no concealment.
True nobility is in being superior to your
previous self.
True nobility is invulnerable.
True patience consists in bearing what is
unbearable.
True peace between nations will only
happen when there is true peace within
people's souls.
True poverty does not come from God.
True power comes through cooperation and
silence.
True strength lies in gentleness.
True wisdom is born with white hair.
True words may not be pleasant, pleasant
words may not be true.
True worth is in being, not seeming.
Trueman's house stands the longest.
Truly speaking, Mr. Hyena has no
friendship. (It is hard to have friends if
you are not a good person.)
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the
company of cocks; bleat in a flock of
goats.
Trust Allah, but tie up your camel.
Trust but not too much.