Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A sin of gold is followed by a punishment
of lead.
A sin that is confessed is less heavy to bear.
A sin that is hidden is half forgiven.
A sincere invitation is accompanied by a
pull.
A single advantage is worth a thousand
sorceries.
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten
in a bundle.
A single bad experience is worth a
thousand threats.
A single bag of money is stronger than two
bags of truth.
A single beam cannot support a great
house.
A single bracelet does not jingle.
A single conversation across the table with
a wise man is worth a month’s study of
books.
A single conversation with a wise man is
better than ten years of study.
A single day grants what a whole hear
denies.
A single day made Drongo black.
(impatience does not pay)
A single fact is worth a shipload of
argument.
A single finger cannot catch fleas.
A single hair hides the mountain in the
distance.
A single hand can not nurse a child.
A single hand can not slaughter a cow.
A single hand cannot wash itself even in the
Danube river.
A single man can not build a house.
A single merit cannot make a hundred
demerits fade; a hundred merits cannot
hide a single demerit.
A single penny fairly got is worth a
thousand that are not.
A single prayer moves heaven.
A single roll of taro top is delicious if
seasoned with affection.
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.
A single slip may cause lasting injury.
A single stick may smoke, but it will not
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burn.
A single stroke don’t fell the oak.
A single tree can not make a forest.
A single tree makes no forest; one string
makes no music.
A single untried popular remedy often
throws the scientific doctor into
hysterics.
A sinking persons grabs a straw.
A sinking vessel needs no navigation.
A sip at a time empties the cask.
A sitting crow starves.
A skabbed horse is good enough for a skald
squire.
A skabbed sheep syles ail the flock.
A skade mans head is soon broke.
A skinny pig is better than a fat chicken.
A skinny wife is a rotten cook.
A slanderer kills three: himself, his listener,
and the person who was slandered.
A slattern woman hold open the door to
hell.
A slaughterhouse is not without a little
blood.
A slave boy is blamed no matter what he
does: If he does not wash his hands, he
is accused of being dirty. If he washes
his hands, he is accused of wasting
water.
A slave does not choose his master.
A slave has no choice.
A slave must be humble.
A slave shows his true character, not while
he is enslaved but when he becomes a
master.
A slave yesterday, to-day a freedman.
A sleeping fox catches no hare or chicken.
A sleeping fox counts chicken in his
dreams.
A sleeping fox finds no meat.
A sleeping head needs more than its neck to
support it.
A sleeping man is not hungry.
A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed.