Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A wrong step by the leader is a warning for
those following.
A year of snow, a year of plenty.
A year of snow, bodes a good year for
olives.
A year’s care, a minute’s ruin.
A year’s harvest counts on spring; a man’s
success counts on his diligence.
A yeeld sow was never good to gryses.
A young angel, an old devil.
A young branch can be straightened, a
mature one breaks.
A young branch takes on all the bends that
one gives it.
A young crocodile does not cry when he
falls in the water.
A young doctor makes a full graveyard.
A young doctor makes a humpy
churchyard.
A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard.
A young doctor means a new graveyard.
A young ewe and an old ram, every year
bring forth a lamb.
A young foal and an old horse draw not
well together.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
A young man married is a young man
marred.
A young man should not marry yet, an old
man not at all.
A young man’s beauty is never without de-
fects.
A young physician fattens the churchyard.
A young preacher, a new hell.
A young tree bends, an old tree breaks.
A young wife is an old man’s post-horse to
the grave.
A young wife tends to cook too much at
first.
A young wife, new bread, and green wood
devastate a house.
A young woman is to an old man the horse
that he rides to hell.
A young woman with an old man is really
someone else’s woman.
A youngster can ask further than an aged
has been.
A youngster is never poor.
A youth that does not cultivate friendship
with the elderly is like a tree without
roots.
A youth who does not work hard, will be
begging will he is old.
A yule feast may be quit at Pasch.
A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes.
A’ are gude lasses, but where do the ill
wives come from?
A’ are no friends that speaks us fair.
A’ are no thieves that dogs bark at.
A’ lasses, but where do the ill wives come
frae?
A’ stewarts are no sib to the king.
A’ stuarts are no sib to the king.
A’ things are good untry’d.
A’s but lip-wit that wants experience.
A’s no gowd that glitters, nor maidens that
wear their hair.
A’s no tint that’s in hazard.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and
ask for the pipkin.
Ability has no school.
Ability is the poor man’s wealth.
Ability will enable a man to get to the top,
but character will keep him from falling.
About evening a man is known.
About everything and something else.
About the King and the Inquisition, hush!
Above all nations is humanity.
Abroad one has a hundred eyes, at home
not one.
Abroad to see wonders the traveller goes,
and neglects the fine things which lie
under his nose.
Abroad we judge the dress; at home we
judge the man.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes
away love.
Absence cools moderate passions but
inflames violent ones.
Absence is a foe to love; away from the
eyes, away from the heart.
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