Dictionary of English World proverbs, letter R, adages, sayings, epigrams

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WORLD PROVERBS AND SAYINGS

60,000 ENGLISH QUOTES

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The Proverbs is a collection of ancient wisdom, still recognized today as practical advice. It contains the sayings not only of Solomon, but other sages of ancient Israel as well. The teachings of this book can be applied by everyone from children to young men and women to the leaders of business empires and nations.

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PROVERBS STARTING WITH - R -

Rage avails less than courage.
Proverb, (French)

Ragged colts make the handsomest stallions.
Proverb, (German)

Rags to riches to rags.
Proverb, (Lancastrian)

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Proverb

Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
Proverb, (English)

Rain comes oft after sunshine, and after a dark cloud a clear sky.
Proverb, (Danish)

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)

Rain wets a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Fair weather come again.
Proverb

Raise no more devils than you can lay.
Proverb, (German)

Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down.
Proverb

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rare commodities are worth more than good.
Proverb

Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
Proverb, (Latin)

Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

Rather a husband with one eye than with one son.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.
Proverb, (French)

Rather an ass that carries than a horse that throws.
Proverb, (Italian)

Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

Rather go rob with good men than pray with bad.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Rather hat in hand than hand in purse.
Proverb, (Italian)

Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for your enemy.
Proverb, (Italian)

Rather lose the wool than the sheep.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry.)
Proverb, (Spanish)

Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rather sell than be poor.
Proverb

Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.
Proverb, (Danish)

Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.
Proverb

Rats desert a sinking ship.
Proverb, (French)

Rats do not play tricks with kittens.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Rats know the way of rats.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rats make havoc in the kitchen when the cat's a kitten.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Ravens do not peck out raven's eyes.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous.
Proverb, (English)

Raw dads make fat lads.
Proverb

Raw leather will stretch.
Proverb

Re-open not a wound once healed.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ready money is ready medicine.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ready money will away.
Proverb

Ready money works great cures.
Proverb, (French)

Real wealth consists not in having, but in not wanting.
Proverb, (Latin)

Really to stop criticism one must die.
Proverb, (French)

Rear dogs and wolves' cubs to rend you.
Proverb, (Latin)

Reason doe not come before years.
Proverb, (German)

Reason is absent, when impulse rules.
Proverb, (Latin)

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Proverb, (Welsh)

Reason lies between bridle and spur.
Proverb, (Italian)

Reason not with the great, 'tis a perilous gate.
Proverb, (French)

Reason rules all things.
Proverb

Reasonable people can differ.
Proverb

Reasonings banish reason.
Proverb, (French)

Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
Proverb

Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Proverb

Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved.
Proverb, (Italian)

Reconciled friendship is like a badly healed wound.
Proverb, (Danish)

"Red is Love's colour," said the wooer to his foxy charmer.
Proverb, (German)

Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Proverb

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Proverb

Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.
Proverb

Redheads are less trustworthy.
[Lat., Rufos esse minus fideles.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Reform a gambler . . . cure leprosy.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff.
Proverb

Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in a little stream.
Proverb, (Dutch)

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall"--but don't rush to pick his up, either.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Rejoice with those that do rejoice.
Proverb, (Latin)

Rejoiced in youth, repented in age.
Proverb, (German)

Relationship produces envy.
Proverb, (Latin)

Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
Proverb, (Danish)

Religion is the best armour, but the worst cloak.
Proverb

Religion must be taught, not forced.
Proverb, (Latin)

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
Proverb, (French)

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Proverb

Remove an old tree and it will die.
Proverb

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Renounce the devil, and thou shalt wear a shabby coat.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Renown is denied to the living.
Proverb, (Latin)

Rent and Taxes never sleep.
Proverb, (German)

Repentance comes too late.
Proverb

Repentance costs dear.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

Repentance costs very dear.
Proverb, (French)

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Proverb, (Moorish)

Repentance is the heart's medicine.
Proverb, (German)

Report makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Proverb, (German)

Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs.
Proverb, (American)

Repute hangs a man.
Proverb, (French)

Reserve the master-blow.
Proverb

Reshape one's foot to try to fit into a new shoe.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Respect a man, he will do the more.
Proverb

Respect is greater from a distance.
Proverb, (Latin)

Rest comes from unrest, and unrest from rest.
Proverb, (German)

Rest is good after the work is done.
Proverb, (Danish)

Rest makes rusty.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.
Proverb

Reticence is a great gift.
Proverb

Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
Proverb, (African)

Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
Proverb, (Italian)

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
Proverb, (German)

Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.
Proverb, (German)

Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.
Proverb

Revenge is a confession of pain.
Proverb, (Latin)

Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.
Proverb

Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
Proverb, (English)

Revenge is new wrong.
Proverb, (German)

Revenge is sweet.
Proverb

Revenge of an hundred years old hath still its sucking teeth.
Proverb

Revenge remains not unrevenged.
Proverb, (German)

Revere your parents.
Proverb, (Latin)

Revolutions are not made with rose water.
Proverb

Reward not a sleeping pilot.
Proverb, (Latin)

Reward sweetens labour.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl.
Proverb

Rice for good luck, and bauchles for bonny bairns.
Proverb

Rich folk have many friends.
Proverb

Rich for yourself, poor for your friends.
Proverb, (Latin)

Rich gamblers and old trumpeters are rare.
Proverb, (German)

Rich garments weep on unworthy shoulders.
Proverb, (French)

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rich men have no faults.
Proverb

Rich not gaudy.
Proverb

Rich people are everywhere at home.
Proverb, (German)

Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.
Proverb

Riches add to the house, virtues to the man.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Riches and favour go before wisdom and art.
Proverb, (Danish)

Riches are but the baggage of fortune.
Proverb

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
Proverb

Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad make the earth fruitful.
Proverb

Riches are often abused, but never refused.
Proverb, (Danish)

Riches breed care, poverty is safe.
Proverb, (Danish)

Riches bring oft harm, and ever fear.
Proverb

Riches cause arrogance; poverty, meekness.
Proverb, (German)

Riches fall not always to the lot of the most deserving.
Proverb, (Latin)

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.
Proverb, (French)

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
Proverb, (French)

Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool.
Proverb

Riches: a dream in the night; fame: a gull floating on water.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Ride on, but look before you.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Ride softly that you may get home the sooner.
Proverb

Ridicule is the test of truth.
Proverb

Right is with the strongest.
Proverb, (German)

Right or wrong, 'tis our house up to the roof.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Right or wrong, God aid our purpose.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Right or wrong, our house up to the roof.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Right overstrained turns to wrong.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Rights wrong no man.
Proverb

Rippling water shows lack of depth.
Proverb, (Indonesian)

Rise early and watch, labour and catch.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Rise early, and you will observe; labour, and you will have.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Roast geese don't come flying into your mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Roast pigeons don't fly through the air.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.
Proverb

Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.
Proverb, (Russian)

Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
Proverb, (Madagasy)

Rosary is hand, the devil at heart.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.
Proverb, (German)

Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Rue and thyme grow both in one garden.
Proverb

Rule the roost.
Proverb

Rule youth well, for age will rule itself.
Proverb

Rumour grows easily enough, but is not easily silenced.
Proverb, (Latin)

Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won't get any reward greater than that destined for you.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

Runaway son, a shining jewel; runaway daughter, tarnished.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Running water carries no poison.
Proverb, (Italian)

Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself.
Proverb, (Danish)

Rust wastes more than use.
Proverb, (French)

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