Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Act quickly, think slowly.
Act so in the valley, that you need not fear
those who stand on the hill.
Act swiftly, think slowly.
Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in
the Velabrum.
Acting is the forte of all their race.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Action is worry’s worst enemy.
Action is worry's worst enemy. (Times or
conditions they live in are really trying
to avoid taking the blame themselves)
Action speaks louder than words.
Action without thought is like shooting
without aim.
Actions have consequences.
Actions speak louder than words
Active hands, full bellies.
Active people never have louse bites.
Activity breeds prosperity.
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but
the memory of an offense remains.
Acts tough but really a wimp.
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-
wheel, and thence come all our nobles.
Adam must have an Eve, to blame for his
own faults.
Adam was the luckiest of men: he had no
mother-in-law.
Adam’s ale is the best brew.
Add a flower to a bouquet.
Add frost to snow.
Add legs to the snake after you have
finished drawing it.
Add legs to the snake one has just painted.
Add not fire to fire.
Add oil to a fire.
Add up your pennies, and buy a hen.
Adhere to virtue honorably.
Adjoining houses always burn.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admire the person with dirt under his
fingernails.
Admission by the defendant is worth a
hundred witnesses.
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Admitting error clears the score and proves
you wiser than before.
Admonish your friends in private, praise
them in public.
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Adversity brings knowledge, and
knowledge wisdom.
Adversity brings wisdom.
Adversity comes with instruction in his
hand.
Adversity does best discover virtue.
Adversity flatters no man.
Adversity has no friends.
Adversity is easier borne than prosperity
forgot.
Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Adversity is the stuff that shows whether
you are what you thought you were.
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Adversity makes a man wise.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Advertising is the driving force of business.
Advertising is the mother of trade.
Advice after injury is like medicine after
death.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine
after death.
Advice and counsel him; if he does not
listen, let adversity teach him.
Advice given in the midst of a crowd is
loathsome.
Advice is a free gift that can become expen-
sive for the one who gets it.
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he
stays for the night; if not, he leaves the
same day.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Advice is not compulsion.
Advice sharpens a rusty opinion.
Advice should be viewed from behind.