Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Every ane loups the dyke where it’s laighest.
Every anguish passes except the anguish of
hunger.
Every animal eats where it finds peace.
Every animal knows more than you do.
Every answer can result in a new question.
Every ant has its ire.
Every art requires the open person.
Every art requires the whole person.
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Every bad person deserves a bad problem.
Every bean hath its black.
Every beast roars in its own den.
Every beauty has some fault and every plain
jane some grace.
Every bed has lice.
Every bee’s honey is sweet.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its
mother.
Every beginning is hard, said the thief,
when he began by stealing an anvil.
Every beginning is hard.
Every bird as it is reared and the lark for the
bog.
Every bird flies with its own wings.
Every bird has a hawk above it.
Every bird is proud of its feathers.
Every bird likes his own nest best.
Every bird must hatch its own eggs.
Every bird needs its own feathers.
Every bird relishes his own voice.
Every bird sings as it is beaked.
Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful.
Every blind man weeps for his eyes.
Every block will not make a Mercury.
Every book must be chewed to get out its
juice.
Every bush is a man.
Every cackling hen was an egg at first.
Every camel was once upon time two years
old.
Every cask smells of the wine it contains.
Every cat has a proper tail. Over there is a
cat with no tail.
Every cave-hole have him own duppy.
Every century, water finds its riverbed.
Every closed eye is not sleeping; and every
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open eye is not seeing.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every clown can find fault, though it would
puzzle him to do better.
Every cock crows best on his own dunghill.
Every cock crows loudest on his own
dunghill.
Every cock crows on his own dunghill.
Every cock is master upon his own dunghill.
Every cock is proud on his own dung hill.
Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Every cock will crow upon his own
dunghill.
Every coin has two sides.
Every community has its own customs and
traditions.
Every convenience brings its own
inconveniences along with it.
Every country has its custom.
Every country is a fatherland.
Every course of water has its source.
Every craw thinks his ain bird whitest.
Every cricket must know its hearth.
Every day a thread makes a skein in the
year.
Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
Every day good luck to thee, and no day of
sorrow be.
Every day has its evening.
Every day has its night.
Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.
Every day is a messenger of God.
Every day is a new beginning.
Every day is holiday with sluggards.
Every day is not a baking-day.
Every day is not a holiday.
Every day is not Sunday.
Every day of your life is a page of your
history.
Every delay has its blessings.
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Every disease has a medicine except for
death.