Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
We do not know what is good until we have
lost it.
We do not live to eat, but we eat to live.
We do not see things as they are, we see
things as we are.
We do not see things the way they are but as
we are.
We do not use our bare feet to search for
hidden thorns which we have seen in
day time.
We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
We don't kill a pig every day.
We easily believe that which we hope for.
We easily disbelieve those things which we
desire not.
We easily give advice to others.
We expiate in old age the follies of our
youth.
We fight to enrich the spirit.
We find much ingratitude, and create more.
We forget even incense in easy times; come
hard times, we embrace the Buddha's
feet.
We get along well with those we can get
along with well.
We get tired of doing nothing.
We get too soon old and too late smart.
We give and take in turn.
We give to the rich, and take from the poor.
We go forward in order to go backwards.
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
We had a dog, it helped the wolf.
We hang little thieves, and let great ones
escape.
We hang little thieves, and take off our hats
to great ones.
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it
makes us wise.
We hate the man whom we have wronged.
We hate those who will not take our advice
and despise those who do.
We hate whom we have injured.
We have a craw to pluck.
We have a fine day more often than a kiln-
cast.
We have all been children.
We have all been fools in our time.
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
We have been fools once in our lives.
We have but one soul to lose.
We have far greater compassion for
another's misfortune than our pleasure
in another's good fortune.
We have never seen the earth show her
teeth.
We have no art. We do everything as well as
we can.
We have no son, and yet are giving him a
name.
We have not inherited this land from our
ancestors; rather we have borrowed it
from our children.
We have not saddled and yet we are riding.
We have not yet saddled, and are already
mounted.
We have quite enough to do weeding our
own garden.
We have seen a hare, we shall have no luck.
We have to fight for our freedom as long as
it takes, and we shall not mind the death
following our struggle for independence.
We have to know some bad times, or our
lives are incomplete.
We have two ears and one mouth that we
may listen the more and talk the less.
We hounds flew the Hare, quoth the
messoun.
We judge of the present from the past.
We judge others by their acts, but ourselves
by our intentions.
We keep an eye on the scorpion and the
serpent, but we do not watch out for the
millipede.
We knock in jest, and it is opened in earnest.
We know others by ourselves, sid the loafer
about the lice.
We know the true worth of a thing when we
have lost it.
We know the worth of water when the well
is dry.
We know what we have, but not what we
shall get.
We learn by standing on the shoulders of
the wise.