Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Lies that build are better than truths that
destroy.
Life and misery began together.
Life at court is often a short cut to hell.
Life begins at 40!
Life begins at forty.
Life can be understood backwards, but we
live it forwards.
Life can never give security, it can only
promise opportunity.
Life does not always go over roses.
Life has always been a mixture of joy and
pain, wealth and poverty.
Life has become a little less sweet, death a
little less bitter, heaven a little more real.
Life has seasons.
Life is -- not separate from death.
Life is a battle.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no
house on it.
Life is a candle before the wind.
Life is a comedy to those who think, a
tragedy to those who feel.
Life is a dogma and a fight for the dogma.
Life is a dream walking, death is going
home.
Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite
every day.
Life is a farce.
Life is a gift for which we pay dearly.
Life is a ladder -- some will climb up it,
others down.
Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its
back.
Life is a matter of dog eat dog.
Life is a muddle, friendship is what sorts it
out.
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes
quickly by, and is no more.
Life is a stairway - some are going up, others
are going down.
Life is a teacher.
Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey
home.
Life is a trip, you never know who you will
meet.
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling
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Life is an onion that you peel crying.
Life is an onion which one peels crying.
Life is an onion. One peels it while crying.
Life is beautiful if it is hectic.
Life is both giving and receiving.
Life is for one generation; a good name is
forever.
Life is half spent before one knows what life
is.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life is in the ear
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Life is just as long as the time it takes for
someone to pass by a window.
Life is just like a dream -- but don't wake
me.
Life is like a ballet performance -- danced
only once.
Life is like a boat you move on when you
paddle and stay in the same place if not.
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on
the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in
the pan.
Life is like a game in which God shuffles the
cards, the devil deals them and we have
to play the trumps.
Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil
now and then.
Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns
back and if you smile, it smiles.
Life is like a wheel, sometimes at the top,
sometimes at the bottom.
Life is like an onion, which one peels crying.
Life is like peeling onion, you peel it while
crying.
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the
pleasure passes but the headache
remains.
Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off
unless you stop pedalling.
Life is like shopping in a market; when you
finish, you go home.
Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a
little oil now and then.