Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What is play to one is death to another.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
What is play to the strong is death to the
weak.
What is put in a basket before going to the
market won't be the same thing returned
in the basket.
What is right for the one is reasonable for
the other.
What is said is said, and no sponge can wipe
it out.
What is said over the dead lion's body,
could not be said to him alive.
What is said when the drunk has been
thought out beforehand.
What is salt to tasteless food, what is a word
to a foolish head?
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.
What is seen is seen by all.
What is seldom is wonderful.
What is sensible today may be derangement
at another time.
What is soon ripe is soon rotten.
What is sport to the boy is the death of the
bird.
What is sport to the cat is death to the
mouse.
What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely
finish is money.
What is sweet in the mouth is not always
good in the stomach.
What is the use of a big wide world when
your shoes are too small?
What is the use of running when we are not
on the right road?
What is the use of running when we are on
the wrong.
What is the world to a man when his wife is
a widow.
What is there that love will not achieve?
What is tightly rapped is known by only the
rapper.
What is told into a man's ear is often heard a
hundred miles away.
What is told into the ear of a man is often
heard a hundred miles away.
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What is too high, that let fly.
What is true by firelight is not always true
by daylight.
What is true by lamplight is not always true
by sunlight.
What is true is no more sure than the
probable.
What is true is not always probable.
What is useful cannot be base.
What is viler than to be laughed at?
What is well-known only seems to be
testified.
What is whispered in your ear is often heard
a hundred miles off.
What is whispered in your ear tell not to
your husband.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing
well.
What is worth receiving is worth returning.
What is worthwhile must needs be difficult.
What is wrong to-day won't be right to-
morrow.
What is yours is yours, it is not like what
belongs to another.
What isn't your duty isn't your business.
What itches in the daughter's skirt, itches
also in her mother's.
What Jimmy did to God, God does to
Jimmy.
What Johnny will not teach himself, Johnny
will never know.
What Johny wont learn, John wont know.
What Jove may do, the ox may not.
What keeps its leaves, to the waning moon.
What loses its leaves, to the new moon.
What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat.
What kills a calf comes from the udder.
What kills a visitor does not kill a local man.
What lay hidden under the snow cometh to
light at last.
What limit is there in love?
What little Hans didn't learn, big Hans
doesn't know.
What little Jack does not learn, big John will
never.