Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Water flows in its channel. (Ask help from
friends and relatives)
Water flows, rocks remain.
Water follows current.
Water for oxen, wine for kings.
Water from another man's calabash tests
differently.
Water from far away is no good for a fire
close by.
Water has leaked under her/his skin.
Water in a coconut shell is like an ocean to
an ant.
Water in August: Oil and ferment.
Water in July is good for nothing.
Water in the mouth before eating; water in
the eyes when the bill comes.
Water is cheaper than medicine.
Water is colourless and tasteless but you can
live on it longer than eating food.
Water is muddy at the fountainhead.
Water is the oldest medicine.
Water makes mud, wine cleans the blood.
Water never loses its way.
Water only flows into rivers.
Water past will not turn the mill.
Water runs a whole mile downstream easier
than an inch upstream.
Water spilled can never be retrieved.
Water teaches us to weep, wine teaches us to
sing.
Water that has been begged for does not
quench the thirst.
Water that has reached its level does not
flow.
Water thrown out is hard to put back into
the container.
Water washes everything.
Water washes up everything but shame.
Water will always take the form of the vase
it fills.
Water, advice, and salt unasked for should
not be given.
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive
men out of the house.
Waves will rise on silent water.
We admire what we do not understand.
We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what
670
we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't
what we was.
We all are brothers-in-law.
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
We all envy other people's luck.
We all fade as the leaf.
We all like lamb; each has a different way of
cooking it.
We all make mistakes.
We all refer to that of which we know most.
We all see the same sun, but we don't eat the
same meal.
We all will die, but our tombs will differ.
We always return to our first loves.
We are all a long time dead.
We are all Adam's children, but silk makes
the difference.
We are all adam's children.
We are all equal before death.
We are all equal in the eyes of the Lord.
We are all flesh and blood of the earth and
so will return to the ground as rotten
maggot encrusted relics.
We are all flesh and blood.
We are all in this together.
We are all made of the same clay, but not
from the same mold.
We are all one child spinning through
Mother Sky.
We are all related.
We are all schlemiels.
We are all visitors to this time, this place.
We are just passing through. Our
purpose here is to observe, to learn, to
grow, to love . . . and then we return
home.
We are all visitors to this time, this place.
We are just passing through.
We are all well placed, said the cat, when
she was seated on the bacon.
We are as big as the thing which bothers us.
We are as the king, only not as rich.
We are aye to learn as lang as we live.
We are born to be our own, and not fed to it.
We are born; we die.