Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
We should bolster the light rather than fight
the darkness.
We should build with the stones we have.
We should eat to live, not live to eat.
We should not burn the light in both ends.
We should trust more to our eyesight than
to our ears.
We soon believe what we desire.
We sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.
We speak byh proverb: he who is intelligent
will understand.
We speak them fairest when thoughts are
falsest and wile the wisest of hearts.
We start as fools and become wise through
experience.
We start to die when we are born, and the
end depends on the beginning.
We succeed together in a greater whole.
We taught them how to beg, they raced us
to the gates.
We traded in shrouds; people stopped
dying.
We trust what we see rather than what we
hear.
We use to live and spill tears, now we live
and build happiness.
We went as makishi, we return as humans.
(settle things in an amicable manner)
We were born to die anyhow.
We were silenced by our patience, he
entered with his donkey.
We will be grateful to flowers only if they
have born fruits.
We will be known by the tracks we leave
behind.
We will be known forever by the tracks we
leave.
We will burn a blanket to kill a flea.
We will definetely get there, since the world
is round.
We will fly that hawk when his pinions are
grown.
We will ride that colt when he is grown to
wear a saddle.
We will stay longer dead than poor.
We will water the thorn for the sake of the
rose.
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We won the war, but we lost peace.
We work on the surface, the depths are a
mystery.
Weak men wait for opportunities, strong
men make them.
Weaker than a spider's net.
Weaklings never forgive their enemies.
Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if
you believe less, you'll do better.
Wealth and obscurity cannot equal poverty
and fame.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it
and not to the one who keeps it.
Wealth can come through your Creator's
good-will.
Wealth can give legs to the cripple, beauty
to the ugly, and sympathy to tears.
Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away
like a gazelle.
Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had
conquered the world.
Wealth consists not of having great
possessions but of having few wants.
Wealth diminishes with usage; learning
increases with use.
Wealth gars wit waver.
Wealth gets in the way of wisdom.
Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when
spread about.
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be
separated whether from a little or from a
lot.
Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who
enjoys it.
Wealth is protected and poverty is assisted
by concord.
Wealth lightens not the heart and care of
man.
Wealth makes many friends.
Wealth makes worship.
Wealth not acquired by our own labours,
but inherited.
Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end;
learning, if you use it, increases.