Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
What should a cow do with a nutmeg?
What should it matter that one bowl is dark
and the other pale, if each is of good
design and serves it's purpose well?
What signifies the barking of a dog that
don't bite?
What smarts teaches.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the
soul.
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the
soul.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness
reveals.
What starts with a condition ends with out
any oppression.
What sweetens goat mout does burn e
bottom.
What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he
gives away for the good of his soul.
What the boss says goes.
What the chief likes is not always what the
youths like.
What the child hears at the fireside is soon
known at the parish church.
What the child says, he has heard at home.
What the child sees, the child does. What the
child does, the child is.
What the church doesn't take, the exchequer
carries away.
What the colt learns in youth his continues
in old age.
What the devil is unable to do, he asks a
woman to do?
What the dog sees and barks at, the sheep
has already seen, and remained silent.
What the elders see while sitting the young
ones standing on their toes won't see.
What the eye can't see, the heart won't
crave.
What the eye does not admire the heart does
not desire.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't
grieve over.
What the eye has seen, the heart never
forgets.
What the eye rarely sees, the heart soon
despises.
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What the eye sees not the heart rues not.
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
What the eyes don’t see the heart does not
grieve for.
What the eyes don't see the heart doesn't
feel.
What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't
believe.
What the eyes see, the heart believes.
What the farmer doesn't recognize, he
doesn't eat.
What the fool does at last, the wise man
does at first.
What the gauntlet wins, the gorget
consumes.
What the gods keep for the poor, no man
can destroy.
What the gods make, the planet can find use
for.
What the heart desires is medicine to it.
What the heart doesn't see, the eye will not
see either.
What the heart is full of, the mouth runs
over with.
What the heart thinketh the tongue
speaketh.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
What the kings wills, that the law wills.
What the law will compel you to do, do of
your own free will.
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox
can.
What the lion cannot, the fox can.
What the mind has hidden, drink brings
forth to the tongue.
What the old ones sing, the young ones
whistle.
What the peacock has too little on his head,
he has too much on his tail.
What the people believe is true.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
What the she-wolf does pleases the he-wolf.
What the sober man has in his heart, the
drunkard has on his lips.
What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on
the tongue of the drunkard.