Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair.
The army is the poison and the people are
the water in which the poison is mixed.
The army of the palm tree is its branches.
The arrogant blind man picks a fight with
his guide.
The arrow does not age.
The arrow that has left the bow never
returns.
The arrow that missed the head of its target
will never hit the tail.
The art is not in making money, but in
keeping it.
The art is to eat it with taste.
The art of doing business lies more in
paying than in buying.
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.
The artist never dies.
The ass and his driver do not think alike.
The ass bedecked with gold still eats thistles.
The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets
thistles.
The ass dead, the barley at his tail.
The ass dead, the corn at his tail.
The ass does not know the value of his tail
till he has lost it.
The ass embraced the thistle, and they found
themselves relations.
The ass knows in whose face he brays.
The ass knows well in whose face be brays.
The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.
The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves.
The ass that is common property is always
the worst saddled.
The ass that is hungry eats thistles.
The ass that trespasses on a stranger's
premises will leave them laden with
wood.
The ass well knows in whose house he
brays.
The ass went seeking for horns and lost his
ears.
The assistance of fools only brings injury.
The ass's hide is used to the stick.
The ass's son brays one hour daily.
The attack tames the beast.
The attacks of a wild beast cannot be averted
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with only bare hands.
The attempt exceeds the ability of one, not of
a multitude.
The autumn of beauty is still beautiful.
The avenging gods have their feet clothed in
wool.
The awakening of a giant shakes the world.
The awkward person always breaks the
board in riding on the surf.
The ax forgets but the cut log does not.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets, the tree does not forget .
The axe forgets; the tree remembers.
The baboons that did not agree slept in
different trees. (Unity is important when
doing group work because if you don’t’
agree then everyone will just do things
their own way.)
The baby has not been born yet, and yet you
assert that his nose is like his
grandfather's.
The baby is not yet born, and yet you say
that his nose is like his grandfather's.
The baby nursed by its grandmother can
never be corrected.
The baby that refuses its mother's breast,
will never be full.
The baby who always gets carried will never
learn to walk.
The baby who doesn't cry isn't nursed.
The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man
a lion, and the married man a jackass.
The bachelor is a peacock, the fiancT is a
lion and the married man a mule.
The bachelors crave to get married, and the
married ones regret they got married.
The back and the belly hauds every ane
busy.
The back dies for the shoulder and the
shoulder knows nothing about it.
The back door is the one that robs the home.
The back door robbeth the house.
The back door robs the house.
The back has to pay for what the ears didn't
hear.