Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
We learn by teaching.
We learn by watching and listening.
We learn from our mistakes.
We learn little from victory, but a great deal
from defeat.
We learn the value of things more in their
loss than in their enjoyment.
We lessen our wants by lessening our
desires.
We let him in, and now he shows us the
door.
We let him in, he brought his donkey along.
We let him in; but then he brought his
donkey along, too.
We live by hope, but a reed never becomes
an Iroko tree by dreaming.
We live more by fashion than common
sense.
We lose the certain things, while we seek the
uncertain ones.
We love the treason but hate the traitor.
We make big promises to avoid little
presents.
We make more enemies by what we say
than friends by what we do.
We maun live by the living and no by the
dead.
We maun tak the crap as it grows.
We may give advice, but we cannot give
conduct.
We might've fallen from the horse, but not
from the honor.
We must all eat a peck of dirt before we die.
We must bear our cross with patience, said
the man when he took his wife on his
back.
We must blame the thief first before we say
that where the owner put her property
improper.
We must convince by reason, not prescribe
by tradition.
We must eat and drink though every tree
were a gallows.
We must endure what fortune sends.
We must go back and reclaim our past so we
can move forward; so we understand
why and how we came to be who we are
673
today.
We must have reasons for speech but we
need none for silence.
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
We must learn to walk before we can run.
We must live as we can, not as we would
wish.
We must live by the living, not by the dead.
We must not appoint a leader over the
community without first consulting the
people.
We must not expect everything,
everywhere, and from everybody.
We must sow even after a bad harvest.
We must suffer much, or die young.
We must take the bad with the good.
We must take the bitter with the better.
We need not friends if Providence smiles on
us.
We never know the worth of water until the
well is dry.
We never miss the well till it runs dry.
We never profit by the gifts of the wicked.
We notice faults of others and easily forget
our own.
We only call our friends if we need help,
and we don't help our friends in need.
We pardon faults in youth.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
We perish by permitted things.
We praise in order to be praised in return.
We praised the bride, and she was found
pregnant.
We receive nothing with so much reluctance
as advice.
We rest our legs, but never our mouths.
We run t'ings, t'ings noh run we.
We see least with borrowed eyes.
We seldom fear what we can laugh at.
We shall hear, we are on the side towards
which the wind blows.
We shall never be younger.
We shall not give the hyena twice.
We shall see, as the blind man said.
We shall write it in soot in the chimney.