Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Every disease will have its course.
Every ditch is full of your after-wits.
Every doctor thinks his pills are the best.
Every dog barks at a poor man.
Every dog got ‘e day.
Every dog got dem diay, Every puss dem 4
O’ clock.
Every dog has its day.
Every dog is a great barker at the door of his
own house.
Every dog is a lion at home.
Every dog is a tiger in his own street.
Every dog is allowed one bite.
Every dog is valiant in his own kennel.
Every dog knows his dinnertime.
Every dog thinks her puppies are the cutest.
Every dog thinks of his own fleas as
gazelles.
Every door has its own hinges.
Every door may be shut but death’s door.
Every door with its own key.
Every elephant has to carry its own trunk
around.
Every elm has its man.
Every error has its excuse.
Every excuse is good, if it works.
Every exit is an entry to somewhere.
Every eye forms its own fancy.
Every eye has its look.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he
will learn.
Every family has a goodness of mercy.
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
Every family has at least one black sheep.
Every family has its hanger-on.
Every fashion goes out of style.
Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena,
but it does not steal a bale of cloth.
Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena,
but it does not steal a bale of cloth.
Every fault that a Sultan pleases can be a
quality.
Every fisher loves best the trout that is of his
own tickling.
Every flail on the oats.
Every flock has its black sheep.
Every flood has its ebb.
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Every flow has its ebb.
Every fly has its shadow.
Every foal is not like its sire.
Every fool can find faults that a great many
wise men can’t remedy.
Every fool follows their idea.
Every fool is different.
Every fool is pleased with his bauble.
Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue.
Every fool likes his bauble.
Every fool thinks he is clever enough.
Every fool wants to give advice.
Every fox carries his tail his own way.
Every fox likes a henroost.
Every fox looks after his own skin.
Every fox must pay his own skin to the
flayer.
Every fox praises its tail.
Every fresh banana leaf should eventually
become a dry banana leaf.
Every frog has his own pond.
Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its
mother.
Every frog must know its sole-leather.
Every future is not far away.
Every garden may have some weeds.
Every glowworm is not a fire.
Every good thing comes from God.
Every grain has its bran.
Every great thing only consists of many
small particles united.
Every guest hates the others, and the host
hates them all.
Every gypsy prises his own horse.
Every hair casts its shadow.
Every hare may pluck the dead lion’s mane.
Every head has its own kind of headache.
Every head is a world.
Every head must do its own thinking.
Every heart has its own ache.
Every herring must hang by its own gill.
Every hill has its leopard.
Every hill has its valley.
Every honest miller has a thumb of gold.
Every hooked beak is maintained by prey.