Proverbs starting with "R"
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- R1 R is the dog's letter
- R2 He is like a RABBIT, fat and lean in twenty-four hours
- R3 Who will change a RABBIT for a rat?
- R4 To lie at RACK and manger
- R5 He is RADDLED
- R6 Rutland RADDLEMAN
- R7 The RAGE of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood
- R7a To take RAIMENT (clothes) from a naked man
- R8 After RAIN (showers) comes fair weather (the sun)
- R9 February RAIN fills the barn
- R10 For a morning RAIN leave not your journey
- R11 If the RAIN comes out of east 'twill rain twice twenty-four hours at the least
- R12 In RAIN and sunshine cuckolds go to heaven
- R13 RAIN, rain, go away, come again on Saturday
- R14 RAIN, rain, go to Spain, fair weather, come again
- R15 Small RAIN lays great dust
- R16 Small (Little) RAIN lays (allays) great winds
- R17 Some RAIN some rest
- R18 We shall have RAIN, the fleas bite
- R19 When the RAIN rains and the goose winks little wots the gosling what the goose thinks
- R20 The evening RAINBOW portends fair weather
- R21 If there be a RAINBOW in the eve it will rain and leave, but if there be a rainbow in the morrow it will neither lend nor borrow
- R22 As lean as a RAKE
- R23 He is better with a RAKE than a fork
- R24 Many bring the RAKE but few the shovel
- R25 What the RAKE gathers the fork scatters
- R26 It is possible for a RAM to kill a butcher
- R27 While the one milks the RAM (he-goat) the other holds under the sieve
- R28 As right (straight) as a RAM's horn
- R29 RAMSEY the rich
- R30 RANCOR sticks long by the ribs
- R31 I smell a RAT
- R32 Too late does the RAT repent in the cat's paws
- R33 The croaking RAVEN bodes misfortune (death)
- R34 The RAVEN chides blackness
- R35 RAWHEAD and bloodybones
- R36 As sharp as a RAZOR
- R37 The RAZOR may boldly graze on a fool's beard
- R38 READ not before you learn to spell
- R39 READING makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man
- R40 Often rues the REALM where children rule and women govern
- R41 The more REAPERS the less to reap
- R42 Hearken to REASON or she will be heard
- R43 Let REASON rule all your actions
- R44 REASON bound the man
- R45 REASON lies between the spur and the bridle
- R46 REASON ought to be in counsel
- R47 Such a REASON pissed my goose
- R48 There is a REASON for you with a rag about the foot of it
- R49 There is REASON in roasting of eggs
- R50 The REASONS of the poor weigh not
- R51 REAVERS¹ should not be ruers
- R52 The RECEIVER is as bad as the thief
- R53 Where be no RECEIVERS there be no thieves
- R54 Even RECKONING makes long friends
- R55 Old RECKONINGS make new quarrels
- R56 Short RECKONINGS make long friends
- R57 A good RECORDER sets all in order
- R58 To give one a RECUMBENTIBUS
- R59 Do not wear RED before a bull nor white before an elephant
- R60 There is no REDEMPTION from hell
- R61 To lean upon (trust to) a broken REED
- R62 The RELAPSE is more dangerous than the disease
- R63 RELIGION a stalking-horse to shoot other fowl
- R64 RELIGION, credit, and the eye are not to be touched
- R65 RELIGION is the rule of life
- R66 The best REMEDY against an ill man is much ground between both
- R67 If there be no REMEDY then welcome Pilvall
- R68 The REMEDY (cure) is worse than the disease
- R69 There is a REMEDY for all things but death
- R70 There is a REMEDY for everything could men find it
- R71 There is no REMEDY but patience
- R72 REMEMBER to distrust
- R73 The REMEMBRANCE of past sorrow (dangers) is joyful
- R74 A good RENOWN is better than a golden girdle
- R75 He spent Michaelmas¹ RENT in midsummer moon
- R76 If you had the RENT of Dee mills you would spend it
- R77 Late REPENTANCE is seldom true
- R78 REPENTANCE costs dear
- R79 REPENTANCE is the laundress of the conscience
- R80 REPENTANCE never comes too late
- R81 To buy REPENTANCE too dear
- R82 To buy REPENTANCE too dear
- R83 A false REPORT rides post
- R84 REPORT has a blister on her tongue
- R85 A good REPUTATION is a fair estate
- R86 He that RESPECTS not is not respected
- R87 He often kills that thinks but to hurt that which is worth the RESTORING
- R88 In a RETREAT the lame are foremost
- R89 The REVEALING of griefs is a renewing of sorrow
- R90 REVENGE is sweet
- R91 REVENGE is womanish
- R92 To pardon is a divine REVENGE
- R93 Saving your REVERENCE
- R94 The REVEREND are ever before
- R95 REWARD and punishment are the walls of a city
- R96 To play REX
- R97 More RHUBARB and less diet
- R98 Neither RHYME nor reason
- R99 It may RHYME but it accords not
- R100 To be so lean that one's RIBS may be counted
- R101 To stick by the RIBS
- R102 The RICH devour the poor, the strong the weak
- R103 The RICH have many friends
- R104 The RICH knows not who is his friend
- R105 The more that RICHES are honored the more virtue is despised
- R106 RICHES and sin are oft married together
- R107 RICHES are but the baggage of fortune
- R108 RICHES are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief
- R109 RICHES bring care and fears
- R110 RICHES got with craft are commonly lost with shame
- R111 RICHES have wings
- R112 RICHES increase by discretion
- R113 RICHES serve a wise man but command a fool
- R114 When RICHES increase the body decreases, for most men grow old before they grow RICH
- R115 RIDE softly that we may come sooner home
- R116 He RIDES sure that never fell
- R117 He that never RODE never fell
- R118 Ill for the RIDER good for the abider
- R119 Good RIDING at two anchors men have told, for if the one fail the other may hold
- R120 It is good RIDING the forehorse
- R121 It is safe RIDING in a good haven (harbor)
- R122 Extreme RIGHT (justice) is extreme wrong (injustice, injury)
- R123 He that has RIGHT, fears; he that has wrong, hopes
- R124 No RIGHT at Rome
- R125 Neither bribe nor lose thy RIGHT
- R126 He will neither do RIGHT nor suffer wrong
- R127 Little betwixt RIGHT and wrong
- R128 Better no RING than a ring of a rush
- R129 Do not wear a tight (strait) RING
- R130 He that hops best (runs fastest) gets the RING
- R131 As wise as RINGING of a pig (hog)
- R132 RING OF GYGES
- R133 Soon RIPE soon rotten
- R134 He that RISES first is first dressed
- R135 An early RISER has care of something
- R136 The RISING of one man is the falling of another
- R137 Follow the RIVER and you'll get to the sea
- R138 In a great RIVER great fish are found but take heed lest thou be drowned
- R139 A RIVER running into many brooks becomes shallow
- R140 All RIVERS (waters) run into the sea
- R141 RIVERS need a spring
- R142 If RIVING PIKE do wear a hood be sure that day will never be good
- R143 As sound (hale) as a ROACH
- R144 To rule the ROAST (roost)
- R145 He that does not rob makes not a ROBE or a gown
- R146 As blithe as a ROBIN
- R147 ROBIN GOODFELLOW
- R148 Many speak (talk) of ROBIN HOOD that never shot in his bow
- R149 He makes ROBIN HOOD's pennyworths
- R150 Thus rides the ROCK
- R151 As fixed (firm) as a ROCK
- R152 To sleep without ROCKING
- R153 He has made a ROD (staff) for his own tail (head)
- R154 The ROD breaks no bones
- R155 Spare the ROD and spoil (spill) the child (He that spares the rod hates the child)
- R156 To kiss the ROD
- R157 To have RODS in piss (pickle) for one
- R158 As swift as a ROE (deer)
- R159 Right, ROGER, your sow is good mutton
- R160 A rich ROGUE, two shirts and a rag
- R161 A ROGUE's wardrobe is harbor for a louse
- R162 He that goes first to ROME sees a bad man, he that goes the second time meets with him, he that goes the third time brings him home
- R163 ROME was not built in one day
- R164 To go (hop) to ROME with a mortar¹ on one's head
- R165 When you are at ROME do as they do at Rome
- R166 You may not sit in ROME and strive with the Pope
- R167 The sweet ROOD of CHESTER¹
- R168 I had rather have your ROOM than your company
- R169 As fit (meet) as a ROPE for a thief
- R170 He pulls with a long ROPE that waits for another's death
- R171 I thought I had given her ROPE enough, said Pedley when he hanged his mare
- R172 A ROPE and butter, if one slip the other may hold
- R173 Throw the ROPE in after the bucket
- R174 To twist (make) a ROPE of sand
- R175 To be on the high ROPES
- R176 As fresh as a ROSE
- R177 As red (ruddy) as a ROSE
- R178 As sweet as a ROSE
- R179 Every ROSE grows from prickles
- R180 The fairest ROSE at last (in the end, in three days) is withered (becomes a hep)
- R181 I took her for a ROSE but she proved a bur
- R182 No ROSE without a thorn (prickle)
- R183 Sing old ROSE
- R184 To pluck a ROSE
- R185 Under the ROSE
- R186 If you lie upon ROSES when young you'll lie upon thorns when old
- R187 When ROSEBERRY TOPPING (Wotton Hill) wears a cap let Cleveland (Horton town) then beware a clap
- R188 He would live as long as old ROSS OF POTTERNE, who lived till all the world was weary of him
- R189 Mihcaelmas¹ ROT comes never in the pot
- R190 Everyone cannot dwell at ROTHERAS
- R191 A ROUK-TOWN is seldom a good housewife at home
- R192 Wellington ROUNDHEADS
- R193 Better to rule than be ruled by the ROUT
- R194 To run at ROVERS
- R195 To give one a ROWLAND for an Oliver
- R196 There is the RUB
- R197 To pass the RUBICON
- R198 RUE and thyme grow both in one garden
- R199 Better RUE sit than rue flit
- R200 He is only fit for RUFFIAN's HALL
- R201 RUIN of one ravine
- R202 He bears no more RULE than a goose turd in Thames
- R203 By RULE of thumb
- R204 It is no sure RULE to fish with a crossbow
- R205 There is no general RULE without some exception
- R206 We must walk (live) by RULES (laws) and not by examples
- R207 It is a long RUN (lane) that never turns
- R208 He may ill RUN that cannot go¹
- R209 To RUN amuck
- R210 He RUNS far that never turns again
- R211 He that RUNS may read
- R212 A good RUSER was never a good rider
- R213 Strew green RUSHES¹ for the stranger
- R214 The RUSHBUSH keeps the cow