Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
With true friends . . . even water drunk
together is sweet enough.
With two bits worth of a donkey you can
earn more than with a mule.
With unity there is strength.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor;
without virtue you can't really be rich.
With water make rivers, with rice make
armies.
With wealth one wins a woman.
With wishing comes grieving.
With your hat in your hand you can travel
the entire country.
Within the four seas all man are brethren.
Without a cat mice have no restrictions.
Without a fertilizer, there couldn't be any
plants.
Without a general an army is lost.
Without a green switch the ox and the
donkey won't obey.
Without a leader, black ants are confused.
Without a woman's help, a man cannot set
up a tent.
Without an ax no tree can be cut down.
Without bread and wine even love will pine.
Without business, debauchery.
Without ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows
cold.
Without danger we cannot get beyond
danger.
Without debt without care.
Without divine assistance we can achieve
nothing.
Without driving even a goat would not go
to the market.
Without eating and drinking the hero is no
good.
Without effort no harvest will be abundant.
Without effort there is no food.
Without father - half orphan, without
mother - complete orphan.
Without favour, art is like a windmill
without wind.
Without fingers, the hand would be a spoon.
Without gold even the daylight is dark.
Without grace, beauty is an unbaited hook.
Without history, no life.
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Without human companions, paradise itself
would be an undesirable place.
Without impalas and hyenas, the lion
cannot be the king of the jungle.
Without investigating the water, don't take
off your shoes.
Without jealousy, love would wither.
Without justice, courage is weak.
Without knowing a person we must not hate
him.
Without knowing a way thoroughly at day
time, never attempt to pass it at night.
Without knowledge, without sin.
Without learning, without eyes.
Without life there is nothing.
Without love everything is in vain.
Without men in the neighborhood all the
women are chaste.
Without money one cannot go anywhere,
not even to church.
Without money you can neither hug nor
kiss.
Without oars, you cannot cross in a boat.
Without other people's companionship,
even paradise would be an unlikable
place.
Without pains no gains.
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
Without pressing too little or too hard, hold
tight the reins for he's a fool who would
not get value from a borrowed horse.
Without retaliation, evils would one day
become extinct from the world.
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife
cannot cook.
Without salt the feast is spoiled.
Without seeing the mountain, do not tuck
up your skirt, without seeing the water,
do not take off your boots.
Without sleep, no health.
Without sowing a single wheat you would
not harvest thousand ones.
Without stooping down for the mushroom,
you cannot put it in your basket.
Without the aid of the divine, man cannot
walk even an inch.