Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
With Latin, a horse, and money, you may
travel the world.
With law must the land be built.
With lies you may go ahead in the world--
but you can never go back.
With lightning and with love, the clothes
sound, the heart burned.
With many captains, the ship does not sail
properly.
With money in your pocket, you are wise,
and you are handsome, and you sing
well too.
With money one may command devils;
without it, one cannot even summon a
man.
With money you are a dragon; with no
money, a worm.
With money you can build a road in the sea.
With money you can comfort any woman.
With money you can make a road in the sea.
With money you can make the dead speak;
without it you can't even keep the deaf
quiet.
With money you would not know yourself,
without money nobody would know
you.
With money, a dragon -- without it, a worm.
With much knowledge there is much
sorrow, with much wisdom there is
much weeping.
With nice appearance people want to be
deceived.
With one bullet - two rabbits.
With one child you may walk; with two you
may ride; when you have three, at home
you must bide.
With one ear he hears, and with the other he
dismisses.
With one foot in the grave.
With one hand he scratches you, and with
the other he strikes you.
With one stump you can't make a good fire.
With patience and a bit of spittle, the
elephant picks up the ant so little.
With patience and time the mulberry leaf
becomes a silk gown.
With patience the mulberry leaf becomes a
740
silk gown.
With patience, mulberry leaves become
satin.
With poison, one drop is enough.
With rapport and offsprings. Said to
congratulate newlyweds.
With selling and buying there are neither
friends nor cronies.
With seven nurses the child loses its eye.
With so many roosters crowing, the sun
never comes up.
With someone holding nothing but trumps
it is impossible to play cards.
With talking the cheese ship won't move.
With tender words you have less luck with a
woman than with jewels.
With the first glass a man drinks wine, with
the second glass the wine drinks the
wine, with the third glass the wine
drinks the man.
With the first wife is matrimony, the second
company, the third heresy.
With the fox one must play the fox.
With the good we become good.
With the Gospel men may become heretics.
With the hammer's blows the defects
become known.
With the help of an "if" you might put Paris
into a bottle.
With the idle it is always holy day time.
With the intellect of another you won't get
very far.
With the old year leave your faults, however
dear.
With the skin of the dog its bite is cured.
With this beard you want to go to Tajrish?
With time an egg will walk.
With time and art the leaf of the mulberry-
tree becomes satin.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf
becomes a silk gown.
With time and straw medlars ripen.
With time, even a bear can learn to dance.