Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Hope is the dream of the waking.
Hope is the last one to die.
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
Hope is the last thing that we lose.
Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.
Hope is the last to die.
Hope is the nurse of misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the pillar of the world.
Hope makes one live.
Hope may give a man strength, but not
sense.
Hope of gain lessens pain.
Hope often deludes the foolish man.
Hope puts that haste into zour heid.
Hope springs eternal
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Hope springs eternal.
Hope supports men in distress.
Hope sustains the farmer.
Hope won't be cut from the soul that has not
expired.
Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter-
hooks.
Horns an' grey hair dinna aye come o' years.
Horns do not grow before the head.
Horse, don't die yet, grass is coming.
Horses become acquainted by neighing,
people by talking.
Horses for courses.
Horses from Ragusa, mules from
Spaccaforno, and jackasses from Modica.
Horses run after benefices and asses get
them.
Horses should be bays, jackasses should be
greys, and mules should be blackish.
Hospitality is one form of worship.
Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to
the oppressor.
Hot broth softens hard bread.
Hot sup, hot swallow.
Hour by hour time departs.
Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes
winged with death.
Hours once lost cannot be regained.
Houses are the graves of the living.
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then
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rest afterward.
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then
rest afterward.
How beautiful to watch the rain and not get
wet.
How can man be remembered when the
giant trees in the forest are soon
forgotten.
How can one start a fast with baklava in
one's hand.
How can swallows and sparrows know the
thoughts of a great swan?
How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool?
How can the eater of dates forbid the eating
of dates?
How can the foal amble if the horse and
mare trot?
How can the person who is eating dates
prohibit the eating of dates? It's better to
be a free dog than a caged lion.
How can you be burnt by chilies which you
have not eaten?
How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's
mouth?
How can you get smallpox in old age?
How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load
of firewood with only a cup of water.
How can you trust anyone who doesn't
know how to blush?
How changed from what he was.
How come that when I lost my sheep and
could not find it, I was questioned; but
the hyena who was found with the
sheepskin is not questioned.
How could the boots get on the table.
How did you rear so many children? By
being fondest of the little ones.
How easily a hair gets into the butter.
How easy it is to defeat people who do not
kindle fire for themselves.
How echo is prompted, it will bounce back.
How ever big a rat is, it can't threaten a cat.
How gently glides the married life away,
When she who rules still seems but to
obey.