Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
To carry coals to Newcastle.
To cast pearls before swine.
To catch a hare with a tabor.
To catch rats the cats take off their gloves.
To censure princes is perilous, and to praise
them is lying.
To chalk out preventive measures in good
time before an emergency is much
warranted.
To change and to improve [do better] are
two different things.
To change like the eyes of a cat.
To change one's habits has a smell of death.
To change one's habits smacks of death.
To change one's mind is rather a sign of
prudence than ignorance.
To change the the world we must first
change ourselves.
To circumstances and custom the law must
yield.
To claim is not to prove.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking
much and doing nothing.
To come out of one's house means learning.
To command one must learn to obey.
To commit harakiri with a pestle.
To compare is not to prove.
To conceal disease is fatal.
To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily
to all.
To contradict means sometimes to knock at
the door to see if anyone is at home.
To control the mind is like trying to control
a drunken monkey that has been bitten
by a scorpion.
To cover his own bad will, the rabbit does
wrong under cover of a dog.
To criticize is easy, to do is difficult.
To cry for rain, is to cry for mud.
(Everything has got its disadvantage.)
To cry with one eye, and laugh with the
other.
To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To
cultivate people, you need 100 years.
To cure a cold you need the warmth of a
pigeon's nest.
To cut into another's man's ear is like cutting
645
into a felt hat.
To cut large shives of another's loaf.
To cut off the head is no remedy for the
headache.
To dance according to someones pipe.
To dead men and absent there are no friends
left.
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he
has no experience with it.
To deceive oneself is very easy.
To deny all, is to confess all.
To deny everything is to confess everything.
To deny God's existence is like jumping
with your eyes closed.
To describe a person who has just gotten out
from a precarious situation just to get
into another precarious situation.
To describe a unity of a society.
To despise the ox means to despise also a
strip of hide from it.
To die defending his ship is the hope of
every Klingon.
To die in the line of duty is the hope of
every Klingon.
To die in the season of plague brings no
honor.
To die is to stop living but to stop living is
something entirely different than dying.
To die while serving the Empire is the hope
of every Klingon.
To do a favour slowly is to begrudge it; to
consent slowly shows unwillingness.
To do a wedding with dried figs.
To do good for ten years is not enough; do
bad things for one day and it is too
much.
To do good to the ungrateful is to throw
rose-water into the sea.
To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out
of the fire with the cat's paw.
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
To do nothing teaches evil.
To do nothing teacheth to do evil.