Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day.
A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
A guilty conscience is a lively enemy.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
A guilty dog always barks.
A guinea fowl is taken by the fastest
runner.
A guine-fowl does not lay eggs on strange
places.
A gypsy only tells the truth once in his life
but he regrets it afterwards.
A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest,
and finally the boss.
A hair casts its shadow on the ground.
A hair of the dog cures the bite.
A hair of the dog that bit you.
A hair on the head is worth two on the
brush.
A hairy man’s a geary man, but a hairy
wife’s a witch.
A half loaf is better than no bread.
A half the truth is often a whole lie.
A half truth is a whole lie.
A half-penny Cat may look to the King.
A half-truth is a whole lie.
A hammer breaks glass, but also forms
steel. Everything cannot be hung on one
nail.
A hammer does not work with iron.
A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge
steel.
A hand that has been chopped off cannot
steal any more.
A hand that is ready to hit may cause you
great trouble.
A handful of couscous is better than Mecca
and all its dust.
A handful of dirt is pleasing if it’s your
own land.
A handful of good life is better than seven
barrels of learning.
A handful of love is better than an oven full
of bread.
A handful of might is better than a sack full
of right.
A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel
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of learning.
A handful of patience is worth more than a
bushel of brains.
A handful of patience is worth more than a
bushel of brains.
A handful of trade, a handful of gold.
A handfull of water can not be grasped.
A handsome finger gets the ring.
A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
A handsome man is not quite poor.
A handsome shoe often pinches the feet.
A handsome woman is either silly or vain.
A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a
single sheaf and a clean floor.
A hangman is a good trade, he doth his
work by daylight.
A happy heart is better than a full purse.
A happy man does not hear the clock
strike.
A happy man marries the girl he loves, but
a happier man loves the girl he marries.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A hard bit does not make the better horse.
A hard knot requires a hard wedge.
A hard life but a healthy one.
A hard-working man is worth more than a
crowd of loafers.
A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears,
yet it is not its son.
A harvest of peace grows from seeds of
contentment.
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed
of contentment.
A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.
A hasty man never wanted woe.
A hasty person misses the sweet things.
A hasty work is seldom good.
A hatchet in the mouth is more harmful
than a hatchet in the hand.
A haughty person will not even reach
down to take his own nose if it had fall-
en to the ground.
A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man
because it is his pleasure.