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