Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Words pay no debts.
Words should be weighed and not counted.
Words show the wit of a man, but actions
his meaning.
Words that come from the heart stay warm
three winters long.
Words will not do for my aunt, for she does
not put faith even in deeds.
Words will not pollute the soup.
Words won't feet cats.
Words, cast them to the wind.
Work and you will be strong; sit and you
will rot.
Work and you will be strong; sit and you
will stink.
Work as if you were to live forever; live as if
you were to die tomorrow.
Work before play
Work doesn't scare him, but he could lay
down near it and sleep.
Work done expects money.
Work earns a living but trade makes you
rich.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
work for engagement of your daughter, but
don't work for engagement of your son.
Work for nought makes folks dead lazy.
Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live
peaceably, and unite your hearts.
Work improves the harvest better than the
field itself.
Work in Micalassu: eating, drinking and
strolling.
Work is afraid of a skilled worker.
Work is burning down to his nail.
Work is burning under his hand.
Work is good, as long as you don't forget to
live.
Work is half of health.
Work is our business; it's success is God’s.
Work is the medicine for poverty.
Work is the source of all good.
Work is twice done by the man in a hurry.
Work is unlike wolf; it won't run to the
woods.
Work like a slave and eat like a gentleman.
Work like an ant and you'll eat sugar.
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Work makes free.
Work makes the workman.
Work makes you into a hunchback and then
rich.
Work paid for in advance has feet of lead.
Work relieves us from three great evils,
boredom, vice, and want.
Work sweetens the sleep.
Work the clay while it is still wet.
Work the fields on a fine day, study on a
rainy day.
Work today, for you know not how much
you may be hindered tomorrow.
Work well done makes pleasure more fun.
Working and painting are better from a
distance.
Working on the land is better than praying
in the desert.
Workmen are easier found than masters.
Works have a stronger voice than words.
Works like the train toilet.
Works, and not words, are the proofs of
love.
Worldly good is ebb and flood.
Worldly prosperity is like writing on water.
Worms don't like the robin's song.
Wormy beans will have blind buyers.
Worries go better with soup than without.
Worries go down better with soup than
without.
Worries go down better with soup.
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Worry is like a rocking chair it swings you
back and forth and it takes you nowhere.
Worry often gives a small thing a big
shadow.
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It
gives you something to do but it doesn't
get you anywhere.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Worship the gods of where you live.
Worth makes the man and want of it the
fellow.
Worthless is the advice of fools.
Worthless people blame their karma.