Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A man is judged by his clothes.
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his
words.
A man is judged by his work.
A man is judged of by his companions.
A man is known by his friends
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man is known by the eye, and the face
discovers wisdom.
A man is known to be mortal by two things,
sleep and lust.
A man is never so ridiculous by those
qualities that are his own as by those he
affects to have.
A man is no happier than he thinks himself.
A man is no more encumbered by his soul
than the steed by his bridle or the lake
by the swan.
A man is not a lord because he feeds off fine
dishes.
A man is not a man until he has a house of
his own.
A man is not honest simply because he
never had a chance to steal.
A man is not old until his regrets take the
place of his dreams.
A man is not where he lives, but where he
loves.
A man is obliged to beat his own chest
when he has no drum.
A man is often a bad adviser to himself and
a good adviser to another.
A man is old when he takes the whole night
to do what he used to do all night long.
A man is poor not because he scorns
possessions, but because he possesses
nothing.
A man is shy in another man’s corner.
A man is taller than every mountain he
climbs.
A man is the head of the house, but a
woman is the neck. She can move the
head the way she wants.
A man is valued according to his own
estimate of himself.
A man is valued by his work, not his
words.
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A man is what he thinks.
A man is who knows to marry a woman
and buy a horse.
A man isn’t dead until is buried.
A man know’s no more to any purpose
than he practises.
A man knows his companions in a long
journey and a small inn.
A man laughs at others and weeps for
himself.
A man lives long in his native place.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his
wife the best, but his mother the longest.
A man may be his own ruin.
A man may be kind and gie little o’ his
gear.
A man may bear till his back breaks.
A man may bring home with him what
makes him weep.
A man may cause his own dog to bite him.
A man may die old at thirty and young at
eighty.
A man may force a livelihood, but cannot
force fortune.
A man may learn wit every day.
A man may lose his goods for want of
demanding them.
A man may lose what are his clearest rights
by not demanding them.
A man may say too much, even upon the
best subjects.
A man may see his friend need, but will not
see him bleed.
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
A man may spit on his hand, and doe full
ill.
A man may threaten yet be afraid.
A man may woo where he will, but he will
wed where his luck lies.
A man may wooe where he will, but wed
where is his weard.
A man must despise himself before others
will.
A man must eat, though every tree were a
gallows.