Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes
rain.
Life is lived forwards, but understood
backwards.
Life is made of two days. One which is
sweet and the other is bitter.
Life is made up of tomorrows.
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices,
but of inevitable problems that call for
strength, determination, and hard work.
Life is not a cup to be drained, but a
measure to be filled.
Life is not all beer and skittles.
Life is not built by bricks.
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is
playing a poor hand well.
Life is not separate from death. It only looks
that way.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly
what it is made by the friends whom we
choose.
Life is short and time is swift.
Life is short, but there's a lot to be done.
Life is short; but it barely takes a second to
smile.
Life is so short we must move very slowly.
Life is sweet.
Life is the beginning of death.
Life is the biggest bargain -- we get it for
nothing.
Life is the cheapest bargain - you get it for
nothing.
Life is the source of all things.
Life is uncertain so eat your desert first.
Life is vanity.
Life is what you make it.
Life is your ability to breath out every time
you breathe in.
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you
really will it./ Life just gives you time
and space -- It's up to you to fill it.
Life liveth not in living, but in liking.
Life unfolds on a sheet called time and once
finished is gone forever.
Life will show you what you did not know.
Life without a friend is death without a
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Life without battle is life without victory.
Life without endeavor is like entering a
jewel-mine and coming out with empty
hands.
Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in
ashes.
Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon
a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan.
Life's a bitch and then you marry one.
Life's a bleach and then you dye.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.
Lifumbo cannot fall in the mouth of a fox
that is merely lying under a musa tree.
(all good things are result of effort)
Light a candle for God and another for the
devil.
Light burdens borne far become heavy.
Light burdens break nae banes.
Light burdens carried far become heavy.
Light come, light go.
Light gains make a heavy purse.
Light griefs can speak, but deeper ones are
dumb.
Light in the streets, shadows in the house.
Light is bad for sore eyes.
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
Light is half a companion.
Light is light, though the blind man see it
not.
Light supper makes long life.
Light suppers mak lang days.
Light winning makes a heavy purse.
Light your lamp first at home and
afterwards at the mosque.
Lightly come, lightly go.
Lightly gained, quickly lost.
Lightning never strikes the same place
twice.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same
place.
Like a buddha met with in hell.
Like a chicken without a head.
Like a collier's sack, bad without and worse
within.