Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
To laugh at a man with sense is the privilege
of fools.
To leap into a pool embracing a stone.
To learn about other people is science, to
learn to know yourself is intelligence.
To learn and to be able is better than
begging.
To learn what is good, a thousand days are
not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an
hour is too long.
To leave a place is to die a little.
To leave is to die a little.
To lend is to buy a quarrel.
To lend your hatchet and get your forest cut
down.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
To let the duck climb on the tsekera grass.
To lie about a far country is easy.
To lie and eat fish demand a lot of skill.
To listen to a lie is harder than to tell it.
To listen well is as powerful a means of
influence as to talk well, and is as
essential to all true conversation.
To live in fear is a life half-lived.
To live in peace one must be blind, deaf, and
mute.
To live is well, but to live well is better.
To live long is to see much.
To live long is to suffer long.
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
To live long, eat like a rabbit, drink like a
bear and make love like a badger.
To live with wolves, you have to howl like a
wolf.
To loan is to buy troubles.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept
everything: joy.
To look for a needle in a haystack.
To lose is to learn.
To love a cow, tie it up; To love a child, hit
him/her.
To love a king is not bad, but a king who
loves you is better.
To love and be wise is incompatible
[impossible].
To love and to be wise are two different
things.
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To love is to choose.
To love someone who does not love you, is
like shaking a tree to make the dew
drops fall.
To love that one who never loves you is like
rain falling in the forest.
To love the king is not bad, but a king who
loves you is better.
To love the law is to lose money.
To mad words deaf ears.
To make a error is human; pushing the same
error is dumb.
To make a happy couple, the husband must
be deaf and the wife blind.
To make a mountain out of a molehill.
To make a person flee his village or country.
(to confiscate everything from a person)
To make a poor man poorer is not easy.
To make a snare for another and fall into it
oneself.
To make an elephant out of a mosquito.
To make an error is human, keep doing it is
foolishness.
To make good conversation there are a
thousand subjects, but there are still
those who cannot meet a cripple without
talking about feet.
To make one hole to stop another.
To make preparations does not spoil the
trip.
To make the cart go you must grease the
wheels.
To make the tea cloudy.
To make two bites at one cherry.
To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed
early and get up early.
To marry in the shade.
To marry in the sun.
To marry is to halve your rights and double
your duties.
To marry one is a duty; twice a folly; thrice
is madness.
To meet an old friend in a distant country is
like the delight of rain after a long
drought.
To mock your elders is to wreck the house
where you have to stay tonight.