Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Qhuen thieves reckons, leal men comes to
their geir.
Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
Quality without quantity is little thought of.
Quarreling dogs come halting home.
Quarrelling is peculiar to the woman who
has got male children.
Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is
only on one side.
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never
die.
Quarrels enhance the pleasures of love.
Quarrelsome dogs get dirty coats.
Quha may hold that will away?
Quha may wooe, but Cost?
Quhair stands your great horse?
Quhair the Deer is slain, some bloud will lie.
Quhair the Pig breaks, let the shels lie.
Quhat better is the house that the Daw rises
in the morning.
Quhen a man is full of lust, his wemb is full
of leasing.
Quhen all men speaks, no man hears.
Quhen friends meets, hearts warms.
Quhen I am dead, make me a caddel.
Quhen Taylours are true, there is little good
to shew.
Quhen the belly is full the bones would be at
rest.
Quhen the craw flees, her tail follows.
Quhen the cup is fullest, bear it evenest.
Quhen the eye sees not, the heart rewes not.
Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-
cloth is tint.
Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys
are tint.
Quhen the iron is hot, it is time to strike.
Quhen the Play is best, it is best to lear.
Quhen the Steed is stoon, steik the stable-
door.
Quhen the Tod preaches, beware of the
hens.
Quhen the well is full, it will run over.
Quhen thy neighbours house is on fire, take
tent to thy own.
Quhen wine is in, wits out.
Quhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger
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Quhiles thou, whiles I, soe goes the Baillerie.
Quhom God will help, no man can hinder.
Quick and well don't agree.
Quick and well seldom go together.
Quick at meat, quick at work.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Quick come, quick go.
Quick enough, if but good enough.
Quick enough, if safe enough.
Quick for you'll never be cleanly.
Quick returns make rich merchants.
Quick to believe is quickly deceived.
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
Quicker by taking more time.
Quickly come, quickly go.
Quickly dear and soon forgotten.
Quickly, quickly because the wax is melting.
Quiet horses kick the hardest.
Quiet people are like still water their deep.
Quiet people are well able to look after
themselves.
Quiet people, whether wise or dull, get the
benefit of the doubt.
Quiet rivers have flowery banks.
Quiet streams erode the shore.
Quiet water wears down a mountain.
Quiet worms will bore a hole in the wall.
Quietly, if you can; if not, by any means.
Quit not certainty for hope.