Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
With a bottle and a girl one does not count
the hours.
With a child in the house, all corners all full.
With a clear Sirocco and a dark North Wind,
go to sea without concern.
With a French sweep.
With a friend behind you, you have a safe
bridge.
With a friendly word you get farther than
with a club.
With a frog in the well you don't talk about
the ocean.
With a full belly it is easy to talk about
fasting.
With a good farm, garden and vineyard, all
your problems will be cured.
With a good name one may easily sin.
With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with
a bad one you lose your daughter, too.
With a king it is the same as with fire - stay
neither close by, nor too far away.
With a little seed of imagination you can
grow a field of hope.
With a little wrong a man comes by his
right.
With a mule you have a son, with a son-in-
law you only have a mule.
With a piece of bread in your hand you'll
find paradise under a pine tree.
With a resolute heart, a mouse can lift an
elephant. Spreading the news is also
multiplying it.
With a staircase before you, you look for a
rope to go down by.
With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an
elephant.
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can
drag an elephant by a hair.
With a walking-stick you reach many lands;
you reach many more with words.
With age comes wisdom.
With all things and in all things, we are rela-
tives.
With an old husband's hide one buys a
young one.
With art and knavery we live through half
the year; with knavery and art we live
739
through the other.
With bread and wine you can walk your
road.
With carefulness you realize your
opportunity.
With customs we live well, but laws undo
us.
With death you don't lose hope: damnation
is called separation.
With empty hand no man should hawks
allure.
With enough "ifs" we could put Paris into a
bottle.
With everything Messina has the port, but
for beautiful Palermo it is always just an
orchard.
With fortune on your side you can sow salt
and harvest grass.
With fowls, the pedigree; with men,
breeding.
With friends make agreements, with
relatives make contracts.
With God all things are possible.
With gold I can buy things; with thinking I
can understand things.
With gold in your pocket you are wise, you
are handsome, and you dance well too.
With gold you can make a road to heaven
but it will end in hell.
With great learning, a horse, and money,
you may travel the world.
With great men one must allow five to be an
even number.
With happiness comes intelligence to the
heart.
With hard work, you can get fire out of a
stone.
With his ears let him listen, and look with
his eyes; thus each wise man spies out
the way.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
With honour and store, what would you
more.
With houses and gold, men are rarely bold.
With iron you hurt, with iron you’ll get
hurt.