Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Your pot broken seems better than my
whole one.
Your previous lies will contradict your
future truths
Your purse was steeked when that was paid
for.
Your relations are more deserving of your
generosity.
Your secret is your blood -- when you shed
it you die.
Your secret is your captive.
Your sin will search for you and bite you.
Your sins will find you out.
Your son can be a prince, your daughter will
be a mother.
Your son is your son until he marries, but
your daughter is your daughter until
you die.
Your soul to God, your body to dust, your
property to your relatives, because thus
it has been found written.
Your thoughts go no farther than your
vocabulary.
Your thrift's as good as the profit of a yell
hen.
Your tongue is like a horse -- if you take care
of it, it takes care of you; if you treat it
badly, it treats you badly.
Your tongue is your horse if you take care of
it, it takes care of you; if you betray it,
betrays it will.
Your tongue rins aye before your wit.
Your tongue will get you to kiev.
Your value is set by your worth.
Your whole destiny is involved in the
attitude you take toward your sin.
Your wife and sheep early at home.
Your wife and your wheelbarrow are two
things that you should never lend to
anyone.
Your wife's eyes are in your purse.
Your windmill dwindles into a nutcrack.
Your winning is no my tinsel.
Your woman should be in the house or in
the grave.
Your word is your bond.
Your years will still remain the same
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whether you laugh or cry.
You're blessed if you're here on Leap year.
You're bound to leave some grain when you
harvest.
You're casting pearls before swine.
You're correct, but the goat is mine.
You're just like a baby; one never knows
what comes and when it comes.
You're never too old to learn.
You're not as young as you used to be, but
you're not as old as you're going to be.
You're not poor if you have as much as you
need.
You're not supposed to keep religion, it's
supposed to keep you.
You're wasting your time trying to interest
the old in new endeavors.
You're young if you're healthy, and rich if
you have no debts.
Yours, yours, the way of eating in town.
(Every person should be minding their
own business.)
Yourself first, others afterward.
Youth and age will never agree.
Youth and void and edginess ruin men.
Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
Youth foresees not poverty, nor the fool his
mischief.
Youth has a small head.
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old
age a regret.
Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age
a remorse.
Youth is a kind of illness cured only by the
passing years.
Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
Youth is intoxication without wine; old age,
wine without intoxication.
Youth is wasted on the young
Youth likes to wander.
Youth lives on hope, old age on
remembrance.
Youth may stray afar yet return at last.
Youth must be served.