Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Children are what they are made.
Children are what you make them.
Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods.
Children grow up, with or without parents.
Children have a hair of their father.
Children have more need of models than
critics.
Children have wide ears and long tongues.
Children learn to creep ere they can learn to
go.
Children married, cares increased.
Children of the same mother do not always
agree.
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas,
and utter them again as God shall please.
Children raised, doubled work.
Children should be seen and not heard.
Children speak in the field what they hear in
the house.
Children suck the mother when they are
young and the father when they are old.
Children tell in the highway what they hear
by the fireside.
Children travel from the heart to the heart.
Children when they are little make parents
fools, when they are great they make
them mad.
Children who get everything they ask for
seldom succeed in life.
Children will tell you what they do, men
what they think, and older people what
they have seen and heard.
Children yoke parents to the past, present
and future.
Children: one is one, two is fun, three is a
houseful.
Children’s bread is hard to chew.
Children's love is like water in a basket.
Chins without beards deserve no honor.
Chip neber fly far from de block.
Chipped china lasts two centuries.
Choleric men are blind and mad.
Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man,
and a horse with the eyes of a young
one.
Choose a matchmaker, not a bride.
Choose a wife from among your equals.
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Choose a wife rather by your ear than by
your eye.
Choose a wife to please yourself, not others.
Choose a wife with your ears, not your eyes.
Choose an easy death for one who must be
executed.
Choose an old doctor and a new pharmacist.
Choose bread with eyes, cheese without
eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.
Choose her for her beauty and even choose
her without a dowry because from her
beauty you’ll get pleasure.
Choose him for a friend who incites you to
good works.
Choose neither a lover nor linen by
candlelight.
Choose neither a woman nor linen by
candlelight.
Choose old wine and new oil.
Choose the neighbor before the house.
Choose the stone by the size of the frog.
Choose thy love. Love thy choice.
Choose to fight, not negotiate.
Choose you friends like your books: few but
choice.
Choose your bedfellows by day.
Choose your company before you choose
your drink.
Choose your company before you go
drinking.
Choose your fellow traveller before you
start on your journey.
Choose your friends like your books, few
but choice.
Choose your inn before dark, get back on
the road before dawn.
Choose your lodging before dark and leave
before the morning dew.
Choose your love, then love your choice.
Choose your neighbor before your house
and your companion before the road.
Choose your neighbors before you buy your
house.
Choose your wife as you wish your children
to be.
Choose your wife on saturday, not on
sunday.