Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What little Johnny has not learned, big John
will not know.
What lowers itself is ready to fall.
What makes a fool excited now a wise
person had heard before and isn't
excited.
What makes a sheep blit loudly the goat had
already seen before.
What makes the drum pleasing is the song.
What makes up an anthill is the effort and
order of determined and organised
termites.
What makes us discontented with our
condition is the absurdly exaggerated
idea we have of the happiness of others.
What makes you happy, makes you rich.
What makes you tired, makes you stronger.
What man has done, man can do.
What man has made, man can destroy.
What Manchester says today, the rest of
England says tomorrow.
What Master Jacky does not learn, Mr. John
never knows.
What matter if I suffer, if only my neighbor
suffers too.
What matters is the menu on the table now.
What may be done at any time will be done
at no time.
What men usually ask for when they pray to
God is, that two and two may not make
four.
What might not happen in a year might
happen in an instant.
What much is worth comes from the earth.
What must be, must be.
What my heart desired didn't happen; what
God wanted was really done.
What my heart wanted didn't happen --
What God wanted, that happened.
What my neighbour eats does my stomach
no good.
What nature gives us is not refused.
What nectar can be drunk with the ears?
Good advice.
What need a rich man be a thief.
What need has a blind man of a looking
glass?
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What never kills a herdsman never takes
away his cattle.
What one does not bake, another brews.
What one does, one becomes.
What one fool can do, another can.
What one fool can ensnare, not a 1000 sages
can fix.
What one has, one doesn't want, and what
one wants, one doesn't have.
What one hopes for is always better than
what one has.
What one is accustomed to in youth, one
does in old age.
What one knows it is sometimes useful to
forget.
What one learns in childhood, he carries
into adulthood.
What one won’t eat by itself, one will eat
when mixed with other food.
What orators lack in depth, they make up
for in length.
What our husband says is what we also say.
What people get by hard work they don't
get for their neighbors.
What people in distress most wish for, they
most readily believe.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ances-
tors, we borrow it from our Children.
We are more than the sum of our
knowledge, we are the products of our
imagination.
What plant, that will harvest.
What raging rashly is begun, challengeth
shame before half done.
What reaches the mother's heart will only
reach the father's knees.
What reveals a man is his behavior in time
of hunger.
What ripens fast does not last.
What ripens quickly, rots quickly.
'What shall I add for the poor?' asked god.
'Fingernails and itch,' answered the poor.
What shall I say when it is better to say
nothing?