Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He buys very dear who begs.
He buys well who is not called a donkey.
He calls me scabbed, because I will not call
him skade.
He came safe from the East Indies, and was
drowned in the Thames.
He came time enough who was hung by
candlelight.
He can carry the ox who has carried the calf.
He can cheat a fish of its skin.
He can do but little who cannot threaten
another.
He can get money in desert.
He can hide his meat and seek mair.
He can ill be a master that never was a
scholar.
He can live even on flat ice.
He can see a louse as far away as China but
is not aware of an elephant on his nose.
He can see an inch before his nose.
He can see the splinter in another's eye but
cannot see even the beam in his own.
He can sell ice on Rura Penthe.
He cannot be a friend to any one who is his
own enemy.
He cannot find water in the sea.
He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.
He cannot lead a good life who serves
without wages.
He cannot see the wood for the trees.
He can't see the beam in his own, but he's
looking for an eyelash in someone else's.
He cares na whase bairns greet if his laugh.
He carries fire and water.
He carries fire in one hand, water in the
other.
He catches the best fish who angles with a
golden hook.
He catches the wind with a net.
He changes a fly into an elephant.
He combines the pleasant with the useful.
He comes aftener with the rake then the
shool.
He comes too early who brings bad news
He comes with incense in one hand, in the
other a spear.
He complains early that complains of his
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kail.
He confesses his guilt who flies from his
trial.
He confides the cabbage to the goat.
He conquers who conquers himself.
He conquers who endures.
He considers it as straw of, the landowner
Csaky.
He could not earn enough to buy even cold
water.
He couldn't drag a herring off the coals.
He counts his chickens before they are
hatched.
He covers me with his wings, and bites me
with his bill.
He cries out before he is hurt.
He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
He crushes pepper under the nose of
somebody.
He cut his axe into a big tree.
He cuts awfu' near the wood.
He cuts near the wood.
He cuts the tree under himself.
He danced bound hand and foot.
He dances on a razor-edge.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
He declares himself guilty who justifies
himself before accusation.
He defends the honour of the uniform.
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste
the sour.
He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
He devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts
the devil.
He did hear the sound of the bell, but
doesn't know where the clapper hangs.
He did not invent gunpowder.
He did not shoot the hare but the pot is
already on the fire.
He didn't learn anything.
He dies before he is old who is wise before
his day.
He dies twice who perishes by his own
hand.
He disappeared like a grey donkey in the
fog.