Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Old faeces don’t smell. (People do not see
the things of the past as being
important.)
Old feel the blows suffered when young.
Old fish and young flesh do feed men best.
Old fishermen never die, they just smell that
way.
Old foxes are hard to catch.
Old foxes are not easily caught.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old friends and new reckonings.
Old friends and old ways ought not to be
disdained.
Old friends and old wine and old gold are
best.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Old friends are always new.
Old friends are the best, but new ones are
the most fun.
Old habits die hard.
Old habits die hard.
Old hens make good broth.
Old horse doesn't learn how to walk.
Old horses don't forget the way.
Old is gold.
Old love and old brands kindle at all
seasons.
Old love and wood will burn as soon as they
get the chance.
Old love does not rust.
Old love will not be forgotten.
Old men and poodles are good for nothing.
Old men and travellers may lie by authority.
Old men and women in the village are
books of history and wisdom.
Old men are twice children.
Old men carry the almanac in their bones.
Old men sit in the shade because they
planted a tree many years before.
Old men, when they marry young women,
make much of death.
Old men's children are rarely of good
constitution.
Old mistakes need more friends than new
truths.
Old monkeys don't put their hand in jars.
Old ones are good at councelling.
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Old oxen have stiff horns.
Old oxen like soft grass.
Old oxen tread hard.
Old people are everyone's treasures.
Old people see best in the distance.
Old people’s words become sweeter after
some days. (Old people’s advice
becomes understandable when you have
met with pain.)
Old people's speech is not to be dishonored
-- after all, they saw the sun first.
Old people's walking teaches young ones to
walk.
Old pigs have hard snouts.
Old pottage is sooner heated than new
made.
Old praise dies unless you feed it.
Old proverbs are the children of truth.
Old ravens are not easy to fool.
Old reckonings breed new disputes.
Old reckonings, new disputes.
Old rust is for the stranger.
Old saints don't get incense anymore.
Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty
of help.
Old saws speak truth.
Old sheep shouldn't dress in lamb's fashion.
Old sheep’s eyes see the sky only after it is
slaughtered.
Old shoes wear best.
Old signs do not deceive.
Old sin makes new shame.
Old sins cast long shadows.
Old sins have long shadows.
Old sins, new shame.
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade
away.
Old soldiers never die.
Old swine have hard snouts, old oxen hard
horns.
Old thanks are not for new gifts.
Old thanks cannot be used for new gifts.
Old thieves make good jailers.
Old trees are not to be bent.