Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Having drunk the country's water, one
should obey the country's laws.
Having finished the meal, the company
leaves.
Having given your word, be strong; not
having done it, try not to promise.
Having grey hair because of old age is not a
shame.
Having health without wealth is being half
sick.
Having is haying, come whence it may.
Having little knowledge is like having your
hands tied around your neck like a slave.
Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you
will more safely venture on greater
achievements.
Having need of makes the ugly beautiful.
Having no ointment and box why do you
pose as hairdresser.
Having rain clouds is not the same as
having rain.
Having something on your liver.
Having two ears and one tongue, we should
listen twice as much as we speak.
Having two ears and one tongue, we should
listen twice as much as we speak.
Having two left hands.
Having vision as sharp as a kite and hearing
as keen as a rabbit.
Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes.
Hawks winna pike out hawks' een.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
He acts wisely who says little.
He adds on more shovelfulon it.
He ain't even loss he mudda features yet.
He alone is wise who can accommodate
himself to all the contingencies of life;
but the fool contends, and is struggling,
like a swimmer, against the stream.
He appreciates prosperity who is caught in
calamity.
He argues in vain who argues without
means.
He asks advice in vain who will not follow
it.
He assumes a cheerful countenance
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suppressing the grief which weighs
heavily on his heart.
He ate one fig and he thought the autumn
had come.
He ate the dog’s buttock. (he is resteless)
He ate the groundnuts hidden by the
ching’onga mouse (which collects and
stores groundnuts and forgets it)
He ate the hare’s meat, his heart is strained.
He ate the heart of the mouse that lives in
the maize sheaves.
He avenged himself on fleas, and burned up
his bed.
He avoided the fly and swallowed the
spider.
He bawls like a calf because he is as weak as
a kitten.
He beat me and cried, and went before me
to complain.
He beat the bushes and another caught the
birds.
He beat the drum for himself
He became an infidel hesitating between
two mosques.
He became in idol of salt.
He begins to die that quits his desires.
He begins to grow bad who believes himself
good.
He begs frae them that borrowed frae him.
He behoves to have meal enou, that sal stop
ilka man's mou'.
He bellows like a bull, but is as weak as a
bulrush.
He boasts, with foreign feathers.
He braks my head, an' syne puts on my hoo.
He brings a staff to break his ain head.
He brought motion in a quiet life.
He builds a castle by demolishing a country.
He builds castles in the air.
He burned his own blister; now let him sit
on it.
He burns the candle at both ends.
He burnt the pole that held the hut (net) of
the deceased.
He buys a cat in a poke.
He buys honey dear who has to lick it off
thorns.