Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
You are as many a person as languages you
know.
You are as obstinate as Potoru.
You are beautiful because of your posses-
sions.
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you
cannot eat your beauty.
You are blaming the hawk, the falcon is
killing the chickens.
You are but sowing in sand.
You are carrying owls to Athens.
You are comparing a rose to an anemone.
You are creeping on your knees to the
fireplace.
You are either hammer or anvil.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are invited to join the hunt when your
nets are in evidence.
You are judged not by what you have but by
what you do with what you have.
You are learning all your life and you die
stupid.
You are lighting a fire in the wind.
You are like a tree, giving your shade to the
outside.
You are like the man that sought his mare,
and he riding on her.
You are looking for wings in a wolf.
You are more shifting than a potter's wheel.
You are my guide, my lord, and my master.
You are needlessly alarmed.
You are never better served than by
yourself.
You are never too old to learn
You are never too young to die.
You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you
have sailed under full sail, and you have
not built a wall unless you have rounded
a corner.
You are not a man until you have plowed a
field.
You are not being honest if you burn your
tongue and don't tell everyone else that
the soup is hot.
You are not born a leader, you become one.
You are not great just because you say you
are.
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You are only master of food that you haven't
yet eaten.
You are only worth has much as you have.
You are only young once, but you can stay
immature indefinitely.
You are permitted in times of great danger
to walk with the devil until you have
crossed the bridge.
You are responsible for your sin.
You are responsible for you.
You are so many times a human how many
languages you know.
You are still a slave if only your limbs are
free.
You are striking cold iron.
You are sure to marry a woman either beau-
tiful or ugly; If ugly she will be a punish-
ment; if beautiful, you will share her
with others. Therefore do not marry.
You are talking to a stone.
You are teaching a fish to swim.
You are teaching iron to swim.
You are the game while the games lasts.
You are the subject of he whose handcuffs
you wear.
You are ushered in according to your dress;
shown out according to your brains.
You are what you eat.
You are what you own.
You are who you pretend to be.
You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to
do it twice.
You are worth as much as your purse.
You are you and I am I.
You arrive Mr. Big Shot but leave Mr.
Nobody.
You ask for the ancestors' help and then
help yourself.
You ask the donkey when's Wednesday?
You ask the path when the high road is
before your eyes.
You attack a horned animal.
You became full by eating, it won't happen
by licking.