Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s
thoughts.
A drunk’s ass has no master.
A drunkard at prayer is regarded as an idol
worshipper.
A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a
lion.
A drunkard is like a whisky bottle only
neck and belly but no head.
A drunkard’s purse is a bottle.
A drunken donkey will not remember the
monkeys bite.
A drunken man is always dry.
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left
alone.
A drunken may soon be made to dance.
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
A dry bone is never licked.
A dry finger cannot pick up salt.
A dry January means a filled hayloft.
A dry Lent, a fertile year.
A dry simmer ne’er made a dear peck.
A dry year still produces a harvestable
crop.
A duck will not always dabble in the same
gutter.
A duck won’t bite you.
A dull ass near home trots without the
stick.
A dum man holds all.
A dum man wan never land.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further
of the two
A dying ear does not feel the medicine.
A dying man discovers the honesty with
which he was born.
A fable is a bridge that leads to truth.
A face that never laughs betrays an evil
heart.
A fair booty makes a fair thief.
A fair bride is soon buskt, and a short horse
is soon wispt.
A fair daughter’s father has no ears.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a
storm.
A fair death honors the whole life.
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A fair exchange brings no quarrel.
A fair exchange is no robbery.
A fair face and a foul heart.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A fair face will get its praise, though the
owner keep silent.
A fair face, foul heart.
A fair fire makes a room flet.
A fair offer is nae feud.
A fair promise binds a fool.
A fair skin often covers a crooked mind.
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quar-
rels.
A fair woman without virtue is like palled
wine.
A fair-weather friend changes with the
wind.
A faithful friend is hard to find, remember
man and keep in mind.
A faithful wife does not marry again.
A faithless wife is shipwreck to a house.
A falcon will not breed a dove.
A fall bodes a lucky journey from the house
but not toward it.
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
A fall into a ditch, a gain in your wit.
A fallen blossom never returns to the
branch.
A fallen branch cannot bear fruits on its
own.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than
a reef.
A false friend is like a shadow, they are
only with you when the sun is shining.
A false friend’s tongue is sharper than a
knife.
A false report rides post.
A family is like a forest, when you are
outside it is dense, when you are inside
you see that each tree has its place.
A family is like a thick forest, often from
outside its dense, when your inside each
tree has its own position.
A family name is not cooked and eaten,
one’s life is the thing.