Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
To forget is the same as to throw away.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook
without a source, a tree without a root.
To forgive a duke his tyranny alters not the
total situation.
To form a dog is the ruin of education.
To friend and foe alike I tell them how bad
she is, so that I don't have to share her
with anyone.
To frighten a bird is not the way to catch it.
To gamble as the dice fall.
To get eggs there must be some cackling.
To get hold of a barbell fish by the tail. (to
advance weak evidence in a court case)
To get lost is to learn the way.
To get may rest on luck, to keep may rest on
virtue.
To 'get out of my house.' or 'what do you
want with my wife?' there is no answer.
To get out of the bed on the wrong side.
To get rid of anger, first weed out the bitter
roots.
To get silk from a stone.
To get something one silently wishes for.
To get the best dowry, marry the poor man's
first daughter but the rich man's last
daughter.
To get the chicks one must coax the hen.
To get the lid on the nose.
To get the warmth of fire one must stir the
embers.
To get through the hardest journey we need
take only one step at a time, but we must
keep on stepping.
To get to know a friend, you must share an
inheritance with him.
To get to know people, you have to eat a full
donkey's cargo of salt together.
To give a monkey a cup of water is easy but
it’s difficult to get the cup back.
To give away is to make provision for the
future.
To give counsel to a fool is like throwing
water on a goose.
To give in order to receive is not to give, but
to beg.
To give is honour, to beg is dishonour.
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To give is honour, to love is grief.
To give is to plant. (If you give help now,
you will receive it in the future.)
To give is to put.
To give is to store. (giving is a form of
savings)
To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as
giving a eunuch to a woman.
To give quickly is a great virtue.
To give quickly is to give doubly.
To give tardily is to refuse.
To give too much when little is asked is a
form of refusal.
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to
dinner.
To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
To go does not prevent a man from
returning.
To go in the right ear and out the left.
To go round a Mwangalala bush. (to go
mad)
To go safely through the world you must
have the eye of a falcon, the ear of an ass,
the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the
shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a
deer.
To go to heaven in a featherbed.
To God's council-chamber there is no key.
To good eating belongs good drinking.
To graze amongst calves.
To grow rich one has only to turn his back
on God.
To guess is cheap, to guess wrong is
expensive.
To handle yourself use your head to handle
others use your heart.
To hang your sickle on another man's corn.
To have "Heard say" is half a lie.
To have a clear tongue is better than having
goods which you can't manage well.
To have a friend, close one eye; to keep him,
close both.
To have a hut built from mud here is better
than a palace made from gold and
marble on the Arabian Gulf.