Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Good tree, good fruits.
Good ware makes quick markets.
Good ware was never dear.
Good watch prevents harm.
Good watch prevents misfortune.
Good watching drives away ill-luck.
Good weight and measure, are heaven's
treasure.
Good will be rewarded with good and evil
with evil; it is only a matter of time.
Good will gives wings to the feet.
Good will makes the road shorter.
Good wind needs no bush.
Good wine is milk for the aged.
Good wine makes good blood.
Good wine makes the horse go.
Good wine needs no bush.
Good wine needs no crier.
Good wine needs no sign.
Good wine needs no signboard, bush.
Good wine needs no vine.
Good wine needs not a wisp.
Good wine praises itself.
Good wine ruins the purse, and bad the
stomach.
Good wine sells itself.
Good wines needs no bush.
Good words and bad acts deceive both wise
and wimple.
Good words and bad deeds deceive both
wise and simple.
Good words and no deeds are rushes and
reeds.
Good words anoint us, and ill do unjoint us.
Good words are food, bad words poison.
Good words are food; bad words are poison.
Good words cool more than cold water.
Good words cost nought.
Good words fill not a sack.
Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out
of his rye.
Good, that comes too late, is good as noth-
ing.
Goodness is the only investment that never
fails.
Goodness reaches further than badness.
Goodness shouts. Evil whispers.
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Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
Goods given make quicker return than
goods held.
Good-ware make a quick market.
Good-will should be tane in part of
payment.
Goose and gander and gosling are three
sounds but one thing.
Goslings lead the geese to water.
Gossip about a person and his shadow will
appear.
Gossip is more horrible than a capital crime.
Gossip needs no carriage.
Gossipers are the devil's trumpeters.
Gossiping about the enemy can result in a
war.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
Gossips always suspect that others are
talking about them.
Got with the fife, spent with the drum.
Gout is the sickness of the rich.
Govern a country as you would roast a
crocodile on a spit.
Govern a family as you would cook a small
fish -- very gently.
Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with
a stick.
Govern your passions, or they will govern
you.
Govern yourself and you can govern the
world.
Gowd may be dear coft.
Grabbing excrement is better than grabbing
flatulence.
Grace is best for the man.
Grace will last, beauty will blast.
Grain and graciousness grow on good
ground.
Grain by grain the hen fills her crop.
Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a
castle.
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
Grandma gave a dinar to dance, and two to
stop.