Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
An opportunity makes a thief.
An orange never bears a lime.
An orphan cuts his own umbilical cord.
An orphan learns from the women’s
grinding place. (a child should take
heed of pieces of advice directed to
others)
An orphan learns through the admonitions
given to a child that has its mother.
An ounce of a mother’s wit is worth a
pound of schoolgirl’s wit.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a
pound of friendship.
An ounce of discretion is better than a
pound of knowledge.
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of
learning.
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of
wit.
An ounce of favor goes farther than a
pound of justice.
An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of
forecast.
An ounce of luck is worth a pound of
wisdom.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of
priests.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound
of school-wit.
An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound
of clergie.
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of
brains.
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of
preaching.
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of
precept.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure.
An ounce of proof is worth a ton of
assertions.
An ounce of state to a pound of gold.
An ounce of wit that’s bought is worth a
pound that’s taught.
An oven and mill are nurseries of news.
An oven whose door does not shut does not
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bake its loaves.
An overbearing wife and a shouting
husband will never be in peace.
An overcrowded chicken farm produce
fewer eggs.
An overturned cart ahead warns the one
behind.
An ox and an ass don’t yoke well to the
same plough.
An ox can be taken by his horn, a man by
his word.
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by
the tongue.
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to
Vienna.
An ox with long horns, even if he does not
butt, will be accused of butting.
An udara fruit that falls by the roadside
must want to be picked up and eaten.
An udara fruit that falls on the side of the
road is asking to be eaten.
An ugly child of your own is more to you
than a beautiful one belonging to your
neighbor.
An ugly girl blames the mirror.
An ugly girl does not become old at home.
An ugly woman’s husband better be blind.
An unasked excuse infers transgression.
An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.
An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive
accusation.
An unch is a feast.
An undecided man is the worst disaster of
the village.
An understanding person needs only half a
word.
An uneducated person is like an
unpolished mirror.
An unfortunate man would be drowned in
a tea-cup.
An unfullfilled vow is as if it had not been
made.
An ungrateful man is a tub full of holes.
An ungrateful son is a wart on his father’s
nose – he leaves it, it’s ugly, he removes
it, it hurts.