Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What is impossible to change is best to
forget.
What is in a heart of a sober man is on the
tongue of a drunkard.
What is in Masai is not in Kikuyu.
What is in the heart is in the cave.
What is in the marrow is hard to take out of
the bone.
What is in the stomach carries what is in the
head.
What is in the yam that a knife doesn't
know?
What is in use, wants no excuse.
What is inflated too much, will burst into
fragments.
What is inside a package is known only to
its owner.
What is it to be a gentleman? Firstly it is to
be thankful and secondly to complain.
What is late is great.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the
grave.
What is learned in the cradle lasts till the
grave.
What is learned in youth is carved in stone.
What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the
grave.
What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tomb.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the
wintertime. It is the little shadow which
runs across the grass and loses itself in
the sunset...
What is lighter than a feather? Dust. What
lighter than dust? Wind. What lighter
than the wind? A harlot. What lighter
than a harlot? Nothing.
What is lighter than a feather? The wind.
Lighter than the wind? The spirit.
Lighter than the spirit? The woman.
Lighter than the woman? Nothing at all.
What is loaned goes away smiling but
returns weeping.
What is loaned will go away smiling and
come back crying.
What is long spoken of happens at last.
What is lost in the fire must be sought in the
679
ashes.
What is marriage, mother? “Daughter, it is
spinning, bearing children, and
weeping.”
What is mine is my own; my brother Juan's
is his and mine.
What is much desired is not believed when
it comes.
What is nearest the heart is nearest the
mouth.
What is new cannot be true.
What is new is always fine.
What is new is esteemed, but what is in
every day use ceases to afford interest.
What is no sin, is no shame.
What is not bitter is good to eat.
What is not eaten by a man, let the devil eat
it.
What is not good for the swarm is not good
for the bees.
What is not taken by the Church is taken by
the Exchequer.
What is not understood by what is less
understood.
What is not understood.
What is not urgent must be done quickly in
order to take care of the urgent things
calmly.
What is not yours always chirps for its
master.
What is noticed by his eyes, will not be left
there by his hands.
What is now top of the mast, will be
firewood soon.
What is on his heart, that is on his tongue.
What is one man’s meat is another man’s
poison.
What is past and cannot be prevented
should not be grieved for.
What is past is gone, what is hoped for is
absent, for you is the hour in which you
are.
What is Past is Prologue.
What is permitted us we least desire.