Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Jabber, Emelya your week.
Jack a dull boy.
Jack gets on by his stupidity.
Jack is as good as his master.
Jack of all trades and master of none.
Jack of all trades is master of none.
Jack of all trades, master of none
Jack will never make a gentleman.
Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.
Jacob's voice, Esau's hands.
Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter
tools.
Jails are always closed yet full, while
temples are always open yet empty.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never
jam today.
January chicks fill the hen house, August
chicks fill the baskets.
January commits the sin and May gets
blamed.
January hoeing fills the basket.
January's goat meat is so good it even spoils
the goatherd.
Jaybird don't rob his own nest.
Jealous about honor and careless about
providing.
Jealousy and fear have big eyes.
Jealousy is a pain seeking its cause.
Jealousy is a pain that seeks what caused it.
Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what
causes pain.
Jealousy is as ash.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Jealousy is nourished by doubt.
Jest not with the eye, or religion.
Jest so that it may not turn to earnest.
Jest with your equals.
Jesting costs money.
Jesus Christ was crucified by public opinion.
Jizo's face when borrowing; emma's face
when repaying.
John has been to school to learn to be a fool.
Join the community: the wolf snatches only
the stray sheep that wanders off from the
flock.
Join those who can join sections of a canoe.
Join with good men and you will be one of
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Joke at leisure, ye kenna wha may jybe you.
Joke, joke, discharges pus.
Jokes, which carry injury with them, are
never agreeable.
Joking must have its proper limit.
Jouk and let the jaw gae by.
Jouk and let the jaw go by.
Journey and you will find replacement to
the ones left behind.
Jove but laughs at lover's perjury.
Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries.
Jovial companions make this dull life tolera-
ble.
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.
Joy and sorrow are to-day and to-morrow.
Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed.
Joy is like the ague; one good day between
two bad ones.
Joy must have sorrow.
Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
Joy was born a twin.
Joyfulness is half your health.
Judge a Dutchman by what he means, not
by what he says.
Judge a man by the reputation of his ene-
mies.
Judge a man not by the words of his mother,
but from the comments of his neighbors.
Judge men by their deeds, not be their
creeds.
Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
Judge not of a ship as she lies on the stocks.
Judge not the dog by its hair.
Judge not the horse by his saddle.
Judge not your beauty by the number of
people who look at you, but rather by
the number of people who smile at you.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Judge nothing before the time.
Judge of the daughter by the mother.
Judge of the statue of Hercules by the size of
the foot.