Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Always something new, seldom something
good.
Always speak well of the dead.
Always stamp your hunting nets where the
animal is going to pass.
Always take an emergency leisurely.
Always take the bitter with the better
Always taking out and never putting in,
soon reaches the bottom.
Always taking out of the meal-tub, and
never putting in, soon comes to the
bottom.
Always talk big and you will never be
forgotten.
Always tell the truth in the form of a joke.
Always to be sparing is always to be in
want.
Always to court and never to wed is the
happiest life that ever was led.
Always use spurs with a horse, whether it’s
mean or gentle.
Ambition and fleas both jump high.
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
Ambition begets troubles.
Ambition destroys its possessor.
Ambition is like hunting for whales -
sometimes you lose them.
Ambition is putting a ladder against the
sky.
Ambition makes people diligent.
Ambition makes people scorn rustic living.
Ambition never has it’s fill.
Ambition spills the sack.
Amendment is repentance.
Among friends and relatives don’t buy or
sell anything.
Among many midwives the child is lost.
Among men of honour a word is a bond.
Among ten matchmakers only nine will lie.
Among the blind a one-eyed man is a king.
Among the blind the one eyed is king.
Among the blind, the squint rules.
Among the weak, the strongest is the one
who doesn’t forget his weakness.
Among thorns grow roses.
Among those who stand, do not sit; among
those who sit, do not stand. Among
those who laugh, do not weep; among
those who weep, do not laugh.
Among twenty four fools not one is wise
man.
Among walnuts only the empty one speaks.
Amusheshe tree is always associated with a
ng’anga (traditional doctor), every dead
person has someone blamed for his
death.
An able horse will never come back to feed
in the same stable.
An absent person has his excuse.
An absent person should have his excuse.
An absent saint gets no candles.
An abundance of food at your neighbour’s
will not satisfy your hunger.
An abundance of money ruins youth.
An abyss calls another.
An accident rarely comes alone.
An accidental meeting is more pleasant
than a planned one.
An accomplishment sticks to a person.
An accuser may not act as a defender.
An aching for wine—a wine-ache.
An adder with its poisonous fangs taken
out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
An adult is only one who has ceased to
grow vertically and started to grow
horizontally.
An adult or elderly person does not miss a
word, he misses a stone.
An adult squatting sees farther than a child
on top of tree.
An advantage of poverty, your relatives
gain nothing by your death.
An African should not be made to suffer the
loss of an arm from a gunshot in
Europe.
An aged steed confined to the stable still
aspires after the glory of galloping a
thousand miles.
An agreement is a kind of debt.
An agreement is more valuable than
money.
An ailing woman lives forever.
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