Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A glutton is one who digs his grave with
his teeth.
A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to
live.
A glutton young, a beggar old.
A goaded ass must trot.
A goat does not always graze in the same
place.
A goat eats where it is tied.
A goat never grazes in the same place.
A goat owned by two people sleeps
outside.
A goat that dies in a barn was not killed by
hunger.
A goat thief came along and they put him
in jail.
A goat’s frown cannot stop it from being
taken to the market.
A god-given beauty needs no beautician.
A gold branch with a jade leaf.
A gold key opens every door.
A gold ring does not cure a felon.
A gold sword opens an iron door.
A golden bit makes none the better horse.
A golden cage does not feed the bird.
A golden cage is still a cage.
A golden hammer breaks an iron gate.
A golden handshake convinces even the
most skeptical judge.
A golden key can open any door
A golden key fits every door.
A golden key opens every door except that
of heaven.
A golden key will open every lock.
A golden plate is worth nothing to me
when my blood is spilled on it.
A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any
chain.
A good action reaps another.
A good advice is as good as an eye in the
hand.
A good advice is part of the Religion.
A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
A good anvil fears no hammer.
A good appetite does not want sauce.
A good appetite needs no sauce.
A good Arab is the dead Arab.
A good archer is not known by his arrows,
but his aim.
A good armchair makes the backside soft
and the heart hard.
A good asker should have a good nay-say.
A good backside will easily find a bench to
sit on.
A good bargain is a pick-purse.
A good bark year makes a good wheat
year.
A good beast heats with eating.
A good bee never lands on a fallen flower.
A good bee will not go to a drooping
flower.
A good beginning ensures a good ending.
A good beginning is a halfway a battle
won.
A good beginning is half success.
A good beginning is half the battle.
A good beginning is half the work done.
A good beginning is half the work.
A good beginning makes a good ending
A good bell is heard from far, a bad one
still further.
A good bestill is worth a groat.
A good bird begins chirping while in the
egg.
A good bone does not always come to a
good dog.
A good book praises itself.
A good borrower is a lazy payer.
A good bottle of wine does not need a cork.
A good breakfast cannot take the place of
the evening meal.
A good burgundy does a lot for women,
especially when men drink it.
A good buy is better than a good sale.
A good candle-holder proves a good
gamester.
A good cat deserves a good rat.
A good cat does not need a collar of gold.
A good cause finds weapons to defend it.
A good cause needs help.
A good cavalier never lacks a lance.
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