Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
We are both carriers, and shall meet on the
road.
We are both queens, so who will hang out
the laundry?
We are bound to be honest, and not to be
rich.
We are content to forgo joy when pain is
also lost.
We are esteemed and treated by the
company we keep.
We are friends; we must assist each other to
bear our burdens.
We are Klingons.
We are made from Mother Earth and we go
back to Mother Earth.
We are never satisfied with our posessions.
We are no more than candles burning in the
wind.
We are not disposed to study much after
heavy meals.
We are not roasting, and already we are
basting.
We are not so much concerned if you are
slow as when you come to a halt.
We are not yet roasting, and already we
make sops in the pan.
We are often shot with our own feathers.
We are people because of other people.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
We are the authors of our own disasters.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn
off the faucet.
We are usually the best men when in the
worst health.
We are what our thinking makes us.
We became gravediggers but nobody dies
anymore.
We become wiser as we grow older.
We benefit by affliction.
We can accustom ourselves to anything.
We can be deceived by fair appearance.
We can enjoy nothing without some one to
share the pleasure.
We can laugh happily with our children, but
not with money.
We can live without our friends, but not
671
without our neighbors.
We can move the entire mountain one piece
at a time.
We can not choose who our relatives should
be, even though we may come to like
some better than others.
We can only speak the truth when we turn
off the light.
We can shape their wylie coat, but no their
word.
We can study until old age and still not
finish.
We canna baith sup and blaw.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can
adjust the sails.
We can't change the direction of the wind,
but we can adjust the sails.
We carry our neighbours' failings in sight;
we throw our own crimes over our
shoulders.
We celebrated at the wax door, and all the
time the honeycomb was empty within.
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and
go and that is death.
We come into this world crying while all
around us are smiling. May we so live
that we go out of this world smiling
while everybody around us is weeping.
We conquer and are conquered in our turn.
We covet not that of the existence of which
we are ignorant.
We decide our affairs, then we rest them
with God.
We desire to bequest two things to our
children--the first one is roots; the other
one is wings.
We do in haste what we repent at leisure.
We do no inherit the earth from our
ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.
We do not care for the little and the great is
of no importance.
We do not care of what we have, but we cry
when it is lost.
We do not inherit the land from our
ancestors, we borrow it form our
children.