Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Good looking and good luck don't always
walk the same road.
Good looking apples are sometimes sour.
Good luck beats early rising.
Good luck comes in slender currents,
misfortune in a rolling tides.
Good luck in business is like the froth on an
ox's face.
Good luck lasts not for ever.
Good luck makes its way in by elbowing.
Good luck, with good looking after.
Good management and feed give eggs.
Good management is better than good
income.
Good management is better than good
income.
Good manners and not beauty leads to love.
Good manners and plenty of money will
make my son a gentlemen.
Good manners can be paid for with
compliments, but only the sound of
money will pay your debts.
Good manners is the greatest friend.
Good medicine often has a bitter taste.
Good memories last long, bad ones last
longer.
Good men are scarce.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill
their names.
Good men suffer much.
Good millet is known at the harvest.
Good morrow spectacles, farewell lasses.
Good music goes with good food.
Good nature without prudence is
foolishness.
Good never comes too often.
Good news always comes from far away.
Good news crawls on its belly; bad news has
wings.
Good news is rumoured and bad news flies.
Good or bad we must all live.
Good pay makes happy workers.
Good people are gentle.
Good people have set sail to arrive at such
gentleness as cuts like diamonds.
Good people live far asunder.
Good people, like clouds, receive only to
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give away.
Good perfume is known by its scent rather
than by the perfumer's advertisement.
Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just
as sugar is no antidote for poison.
Good remains are nice to have.
Good repute is better than a golden belt.
Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it
never puts forth leaf again.
Good resolutions are like babies crying in
church, they should be carried out
immediately.
Good riding at two anchors men have told,
For it one break, the other yet may hold.
Good right needs good help.
Good seed makes a good crop.
Good sense is as important as food.
Good start is a half of work.
Good stew is best to be made in an old pot.
Good study and good care banish and break
bad luck.
Good swimmers are drowned at last.
Good sword has often been in poor
scabbard.
Good table, bad will.
Good take heed doth surely speed.
Good talk saves the food.
Good things are hot.
Good things are never cheap.
Good things come in small packages.
Good things come to some when they are
asleep.
Good things come to those who don’t wait
for lunch.
Good things come to those who wait
Good things does not fill the spoon.
Good things require time.
Good things sell themselves; those that are
bad have to be advertised.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Good things, many devils.
Good thongs may be cut out of other
people's hides.
Good to begin well, better to end well.
Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for
risk.