Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What good is honor when you're starving?
What good is horse when the grass is
already dead?
What good is it to run when you are on the
wrong road?
What good serve candle and glasses, if the
owl does not want to see.
What greater crime than loss of time?
What grows makes no noise.
What grows quickly, dies quickly.
What happens to the turkey can happen to
the rooster too.
What harm is there in a good word? It costs
nothing.
What harm is there in making a trial?
What has been blown away, cannot be
found again.
What has benefited one has destroyed
others.
What has horns will gore.
What has not been, may be.
What has that got to do with it.
What has the rooster of Sciacca been
reduced to, to be pecked by the hen.
What has this to do with the matter?
What have you to hide from someone who
shows you his arse?
What he gains at the toll, loses at the
customs.
What I believe in is all that is mine.
What I do against my will cannot be said to
be my own act.
What I do not know will not keep me warm.
What I see with my eyes I can guess with
my fingers.
What I wish best for myself, I wish it for my
friends too.
What I'm afraid to hear I'd better say first
myself.
What is a big shot except a little shot that
kept on shooting.
What is a man but his mind?
What is an exalted position to a low fellow
but a golden ring in a swine's snout?
What is an expert? Someone who is twenty
miles from home.
What is another's always pines for its
678
master.
What is bad for one is good for another.
What is bad luck for one man is good luck
for another.
What is begin talked about is here, and if its
not it's comming around behind.
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
What is bred in the bone will not out of the
flesh.
What is brought by the wind will be carried
away by the wind.
What is called into a forest is the same what
is echoed from the forest.
What is decided by legitimate authority is
not resented by the subjects.
What is delayed may happen later.
What is difficult to endure is sweet to recall.
What is done by night appears by day.
What is done cannot be undone.
What is done under the four moons need
never be recalled nor regretted.
What is done, is done for this time.
What is enough was never little.
What is extraordinary, try to look at with
your own eyes.
What is fated to be yours will always return
to you.
What is given by God, can't be lacking.
What is gold is worth gold.
What is good for the buffalo is good for the
cow.
What is good is not necessarily beautiful.
What is good to know is difficult to learn.
What is got by begging is dearly bought.
What is got cheaply, goes quickly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent
under his belly.
What is gotten over the devil's back is spent
under his belly.
What is greatly desired is not believed when
it comes.
What is hanging up, cannot be reached
sitting down.
What is here is elsewhere, what is not here is
no where.