Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Every who streches a skin on a drum, pulls
the skin own his own side.
Every why has its wherefore.
Every wind does not shake down the nut.
Every wind is against a leaky ship.
Every wise man is afraid of a fool.
Every wise woman builds her house: but the
fool plucks it down with her hands.
Every woman has something of a witch
about her.
Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
Every woman needs two men, one to be
married to and the other to compare.
Every woman would rather be handsome
than good.
Every wonder lasts three days.
Every wood has its own smoke.
Every word has three definitions and three
interpretations.
Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield
to those who take refuge in him.
Every worm has its hole.
Every worm to his taste.
Every year after fifty brings ten ailments.
Everybody has a hump when he stoops.
Everybody has a name, but not always the
same luck with it.
Everybody has been young before, but not
everybody has been old before.
Everybody is the architect of his own
fortune.
Everybody is wise after the thing has
happened.
Everybody joins to blame or condemn a
child who overthrows the pot of soup.
Everybody knows best where his own shoe
pinches.
Everybody knows good counsel except him
who has need of it.
Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants
him for a son.
Everybody loves a lord.
Everybody must live.
Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s
shoes, if he wear no more.
Everybody regrets not what he leaves but
what he does not find.
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Everybody says it, nobody knows it.
Everybody sees only his own dish.
Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings
better than another’s nightingale.
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
Everybody’s busy is nobody’s business.
Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend.
Everybody’s friend is true to none.
Everybody’s friend or nobody’s friend, is all
one.
Everybody’s friend, everybody’s fool.
Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend.
Everyone according to their talent and every
talent according to its work.
Everyone admires his own character.
Everyone blames his memory, but never his
judgement.
Everyone can find fault, few can do better.
Everyone carries around his own witches.
Everyone cries with their eyes.
Everyone cut the grass. Cut the grass. Let no
one call the others ‘Prisoners.’
Everyone drinks with their mouth.
Everyone encounters tribbles occasionally.
Everyone for himself.
Everyone gets ugly as he gets older.
Everyone greets others with a hat he has
got.
Everyone has a right to be stupid some just
abuse the right.
Everyone has his master.
Everyone has his own troubles, some fewer,
some more.
Everyone has their own way of killing fleas.
Everyone his own trouble.
Everyone is akin to the rich man.
Everyone is as god made him and very often
worse.
Everyone is dancing to the tune of trouble.
Everyone is eloquent in his own cause.
Everyone is given the key to the gates of
Heaven. The same key opens the gates of
Hell.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough,
but not baked in the same oven.