Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A thorn has a small point, but the person
who feels it does not forget its sting.
A thorn in the flesh.
A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness
of advice.
A thorn pierces young skin more quickly
than old.
A thorn that pierces the toe should be
burned by the light of a new moon lest
the devil possess the foot.
A thorn under a baobab tree pricks deeper.
A thorn, a hound’s tooth, a fool’s word:
these are the three sharpest things.
A thousand assignations, one marriage.
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice
when true friends meet, but half a
sentence is too much when there is no
meeting of minds.
A thousand curses never tore a shirt
A thousand friends are few; one enemy is
too many.
A thousand miles journey begins with a
single step.
A thousand people cannot undress a naked
person.
A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay are
all one at doomsday.
A thousand probabilities do not make one
truth.
A thousand regrets do not cancel one debt.
A thousand workers, a thousand plans.
A thousand years hence the river will run
as it did.
A thrashing river is a fisherman’s bounty.
A thread from everyone will make a shirt
for the needy.
A thread will tie an honest man better than
a chain a rogue.
A thread-bare coat is armour proof against
highwaymen.
A threat does not lengthen your sword.
A threatened buffet is never well given.
A threatened man lives long, if he can get
bread.
A threatened man lives seven years.
A three day long merry-making and regret
lasting till death.
A three inch tongue – the iron bulwark of
politics.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
A thriftless woman burns the entire candle
looking for a match.
A throne is only a bench covered with
velvet.
A throw without a thrower.
A tiger cannot beat a crowd of monkeys.
A tiger dies and leaves his skin; a man dies
and leaves his name.
A tiger does not have to proclaim its tigri-
tude.
A tiger never returns to his prey he did not
finish off.
A tiger wearing a bell will starve.
A tiger’s head and a snake’s tail.
A tilted load won’t reach its destination.
A timely “no” beats a hasty “yes.”
A timely tear is better than a misplaced
smile.
A timid man has little chance.
A timid or cowardly person may be raised
against the most valuable and useful
things.
A tiny morsel is a feast to the starving man.
A tiny one seems arrogant.
A titmouse in the hand is better than a
crane in the sky.
A toad does not jump around in the
daytime, unless something is after its
life.
A toad does not run in the daytime for
nothing.
A toad never thinks her baby’s ugly.
A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he
has no teeth.
A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.
A tongue has no bone.
A tongue has no bones but it can break.
A too modest man goes hungry.
A toom pantry makes a thriftless gudewife.
A toom purse makes a pratling merchant.
A torch shows you the way, but it doesn’t
remove the obstacles.
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