Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What butter or whiskey will not cure is
incurable.
What can a cat do if its master is crazy.
What can an old harlot do but repent of her
misdeeds?
What can be expected to be dropped is held
in the hands, but what is in the heart I
shall die with.
What can the enemy do when the friend is
cordial.
What can you do with a good cow that gives
a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket
over?
What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
What can’t be cured must be endured.
What cannot gold do?
What can't be altered must be borne, not
blamed.
What can't be cured must be endured.
What can't speak can't lie.
What children hear their parents say by the
fireside, they repeat in the highway.
What Christ does not take, the exchequer
takes.
What comes easily is lost easily.
What comes from ah will go to oh.
What comes from the fife goes back to the
drum.
What comes from the heart, goes to the
heart.
What comes from the lips reaches the ears,
what comes from the heart reaches the
heart.
What comes out of one mouth goes into a
hundred others.
What comes seldom, comes sharp.
What comes this way, goes this way.
What comes with sin goes with sorrow.
What costs little is little esteemed.
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
What cures Sancho makes Martha sick.
What cures the liver harms the spleen.
What darg see him bark all night, ramgoat
see it no trouble him.
What de good a education if him got no
sense?
What does a donkey know about the life of a
677
nightingale?
What does not exist, cannot cause any
trouble.
What does not happen in a year may
happen in a moment.
What does not poison, fattens.
What does one hand have? Two hands make
a sound.
What does the blind man know of the
beauty of the tulip?
What does the moon care if the dogs bay at
her?
What does the tortoise care for flies?
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
What doesn't kill, hardens.
What doesn't kill does fatten.
What everybody says must be true.
What fails to succeed, should not be forced.
What fills the eye fills the heart.
What first appears as a calamity may later
bring good fortune.
What flares up fast, extinguishes soon.
What force cannot do ingenuity may.
What gives the child the itch has already
given him the fingernails for scratching
it.
What go looking for, will find.
What God haith joined together, let no man
put asunder.
What goes around, comes around.
What goes down usually comes up.
What goes up must come down.
What good is a golden gallows if they are
going to hang you.
What good is a palace if it's inhabited by
owls. Better a straw hut inhabited by
humans.
What good is a something big that is still
needed to be searched, if there is
something small that is in your hands?
What good is faith if you don't live by it.
What good is giving sugar to the dead?
What good is grass when the horse is
already dead?