Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Your five year old son is your instructor; at
ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and
after that either friend or foe.
Your food is supposed to be your medicine
and your medicine is supposed to be
your food.
Your friend chooses pebbles for you and
your enemy counts your faults.
Your friend has a friend and the friend of
your friend has another friend. Learn
how to keep quiet.
Your friend has a friend, and your friend's
friend has another friend -- so know
when to keep quiet.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Your friend lends and your enemy asks for
payment.
Your friend will swallow your mistakes,
your enemy will present them on a plate.
Your friend, one doesn't stare at his
forehead, one stares at his stomach.
Your friend’s case is an occasion to make a
handle of an axe, or a hoe.
Your friend’s child is told “wash your
hands” yours, “you eat.” (it is not good
to discriminate other peoples children)
Your friend’s child is yours, better have
clever hands, you will eat with him.
(Care for the children of other people
because in the future they may help
you.)
Your friend’s heart is a wilderness.
Your friendship is your needs answered.
Your gear will never o'er gang you.
Your greatest hope is your greatest fear.
Your hand is never the worse for doing its
own work.
Your head is not only for putting a hat on.
Your head will never fill your father's
bonnet.
Your health comes first - you can always
hang yourself later.
Your heart must be peaceful to hear song in
the leaves of the trees.
Your highness's blow cannot be parried.
Your home is your home.
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Your hometown is like a small fatherland.
Your ignorance is your worst enemy.
Your little is your little, their little is their
little. (Don’t rely on that which belongs
to others while belittling what is yours.)
Your little thing is the little thing you have
eaten. (Don’t rely on something which
you do not yet have.)
Your looks betray your thoughts.
Your lord is the lord of hearts.
Your lord's rent or your child's life.
Your meal's a' deagh.
Your memory can let you down like it did to
a Finn who was carving a wooden
spoon.
Your mind is like a parachute; it only works
when it's open.
Your minnie's milk is no out of your nose
yet.
Your most faithful friends are your own
hands.
Your mother is the bodyguard of your
father.
Your mother is your mother even if she has
a small leg.
Your mother is your mother, don’t see the
smallness of the leg. (Don’t’ ridicule your
parents because of their appearance.)
Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest.
Your nose is a part of you even if it was cut.
Your own bad place is far better than your
companion's place.
Your own deeds will long be baptized on
you.
Your own faults look as big to the other
fellow as his do to you.
Your own friend, and your father's friend,
forsake not.
Your own rags are better than another's
gown.
Your own small place is not like a big place
of your companion.
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the
other man's is but weeds.
Your pocket is your friend.