Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The road to ruin is paved with good
intentions.
The road to success is always under
construction.
The road to success is lined with many
tempting parking spaces.
The road to the head lies through the heart.
The roaring lion kills no game.
The roast duck can fly no more.
The robin and the wren are God's cock and
hen; the martin and the swallow are
God's mate and marrow.
The rock in the water does not know the
pain of the rock in the sun.
The roe is swift enough without setting the
dogs on her.
The Roman conquered by delay.
The room and the stove are one item.
The rooster said, "I shall cry but whether the
sun rises God knows."
The rope breaks where it is thinnest.
The rope of a lie is short.
The rope that hangs a monkey, hangs a
baboon as well.
The rope will break where it is thinnest.
The ropeman got mixed with the archer.
The rose comes from the thorns that were
born of roses.
The rose has thorns only for those who
would gather it.
The rose is a friend of the thorn.
The rose that's not considered, has been
smelled or picked or defoliated.
The roses fall, and the thorns remain.
The roses fall, the thorns remain.
The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
the rotten apple spoils its companion.
The rough manners of the vulgar are
contagious.
The roughness of a cotton tree is not known
until you get close to it.
The rubbish we speak is like froth on the
water, actions are drops of gold.
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of
its people.
The ruling passion strong in death.
The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for
593
directions.
The sack has found its patch.
The sack of longing has no bottom.
The sacrifice of an ox will not bring us all we
want.
The saddest dog sometimes wags its tail.
The saddest thing is the death of the heart.
The safest antidote against sorrow is
employment.
The saint has no believers unless he works
miracles.
The saint is suspicious of too many
sacrifices.
The saint who works no cures has few
pilgrims to his shrine.
The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.
The salary of a good servant is never too
high.
The salt of patience seasons everything.
The same destiny awaits both the wise man
and the fool.
The same failings attach not to all.
The same fire purifies gold and consumes
straw.
The same fire which purifies gold consumes
straw.
The same hammer that breaks the glass
forges the steel.
The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay.
The same rain that drenches the slave also
drenches the slave driver.
The same shoe does not fit every foot.
The same sun that melts the wax hardens
the clay.
The same teeth that a dog uses to play it
uses to bite too.
The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
The sat one doesn't understand the hungry
one: for one the soup is too thin, for the
other - the pearls are too small.
The satiated don't believe the hungry.
The savage ox grows tame on strange
ground.
The saving man becomes the free man.