Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you
don't.
Young angel, old devil.
Young bamboo trees are easy to bend.
Young cats will mouse, young apes will
louse.
Young courage and old caution are a strong
pair.
Young dogs have sharp teeth.
Young drinkers, old beggars.
Young ducks may be auld geese.
Young folk may dee, auld folk maun dee.
Young folk may die, but auld folk maun die.
Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
Young folks think old folks to be fools, but
old folks know young folks to be fools.
Young fools think that the old are dotards,
but the old have forgotten more than the
young fools know.
Young gamblers, old beggars.
Young man, countries practice witchcraft on
one another.
Young men forgive, old men never.
Young men may die, old men must.
Young men think old men fools; old men
know young men to be so.
Young men's knocks old men feel.
Young people don't know what age is, and
old people forget what youth was.
Young people must be taught, old ones be
honoured.
Young people talk of what they are doing;
old people of what they have done; and
fools of what they have a mind to do.
Young people tell what they are doing, old
people what they have done, and fools
what they wish to do.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted
before them.
Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before
them.
Young saints, old devils.
Young sugar-cane gives no beer.
Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.
Young wood makes a hot fire.
Your ame thinks your wysen's cutted.
Your ancestor's glory should not prevent
767
you from winning your own.
Your aspirations are in heaven, but your
brains are in your feet.
Your belly is not a book.
Your best friend is yourself.
Your best mirror is someone more beautiful
than you.
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to
God, and your back to the squire.
Your bottom is fattier and dropping down to
the fire.
Your brother is that who consoles you.
Your brother is who gives you a honest
advice.
Your brother's pocket cannot keep your
wealth.
Your canine teeth can take you to the grave.
Your close neighbor is better than your
faraway brother.
Your companion's body is beside.
Your companion's burden is a load of
kapok.
Your cracked jug seems better to me than
my sound one.
Your dog wishes you a long life.
Your ears are wiser than you are.
Your een's greedier than your guts.
Your elbow is near but you can't bite it.
Your enemy makes you wiser.
Your failures could be stepping-stones to
success.
Your family is not like a rented house, if
something is brocken fix it. No one will
come and do it for you.
Your father is part of you always.
Your feet will take you away from home,
but your stomach will always bring you
back.
Your fellow man is upon an anthill. (don’t
under estimate other people’s strength)
Your fingers can't be of the same length.
Your first accident may be your last.
Your first care must be the care of your own
heart.