Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A penny is sometimes better spent than
spared.
A penny saved is a penny earned
A penny saved is a penny earned, but
sometimes a penny is better spent than
saved.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
A penny saved is a penny got.
A penny saved is better than a florin
earned.
A penny saved is two-pence got.
A penny saved is very grateful.
A penny spared is a penny saved.
A penny spared is better than a florin
gained.
A penny-pinching father has thieves for
children.
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of
law.
A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of
sorrow.
A people without a history is like the wind
over buffalo grass.
A people without faith in themselves
cannot survive.
A people’s legends reveal its character more
clearly than its acts and events.
A perfect whipping-top for changing sides.
A performing masquerade who tries too
hard to outclass his colleagues may
expose his anus.
A person always breaking off from work
never finishes anything.
A person born to be a flower pot will not go
beyond the porch.
A person can never run so fast as to run
away from his backside.
A person can study for seventy years and at
the end die a fool.
A person can understand things deeply
through proverbs.
A person cannot be judged by his
appearance in the same token as the sea
cannot be measured with a bucket.
A person changing his clothing always
hides while changing.
A person changing his clothing always
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hides while changing.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is
his faith, even so is he.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is
his faith, even so is he.
A person cutting the path doesn’t know
that it is crooked.
A person does not dispute it when the chair
on which the person is sitting says the
person has farted.
A person does not objects to being called,
he objects to what he is called for.
A person does not resemble something in
the wilderness; he resembles his father
and mother.
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the
person.
A person eating must make crumbs.
A person has learned much who has
learned how to die.
A person in a village cannot run fast. (take
it easy, not rush when settling matters)
A person is a guest for one or two days, but
becomes an intruder on the third.
A person is a person because of other
people.
A person is a person because of other per-
sons.
A person is always responsible: if his act
was accidental or intentional, whether
he was awake or asleep.
A person is asked about his dress not what
he has eaten.
A person is known by the company he
keeps
A person is unlucky who falls on his back
and breaks his nose.
A person is what he eats.
A person looks only on the outside of
things; God looks into the very heart.
A person moves up while water runs down.
A person must stand very tall to see their
own fate.
A person never gets tired working for
himself.