Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He does a good day's work who rids himself
of a fool.
He does na aye ride when he saddles his
horse.
He does not a little who burns his house: he
frightens the rats, and warms himself.
He does not even know whether it is a
pumpkin or a curd-cake.
He does not guard himself well who is not
always on his guard.
He does not hide his opinion under a
bushel.
He does not live in this world that can skin a
grindstone.
He does not put crosswise even one stalk of
straw.
He does not show a decent quality even
over a good dinner.
He does not sing his father's songs.
He does not think milk-and-water of
himself.
He does not think small beer of himself.
He doesn't eat gagh.
He doesn't see water, otherwise he is a
skilled swimmer.
He don't care if Good Friday come pon a
Sunday.
He dotes on his midden and thinks it the
moon.
He doubts nothing who knows nothing.
He draws everything to one last.
He draws water over his own rice field.
He drinks like a brushmaker.
He drinks like a fish.
He drives a good waggonful into his farm
who gets a good wife.
He drives out one devil by another.
He drives the water to the mill of somebody.
He dwells far from neighbours that is fain to
praise himself.
He earns a farthing and has a penn'orth of
thirst.
He eats sheep-tail with the wold, and cries
with the shephard.
He either wheedles by suasive means or
terrifies by threats.
He even begrudges the water with which he
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washes.
He expects that larks will fall ready roasted
into his mouth.
He expects to find water at the first stroke of
the spade.
He explains away his report.
He falls into the pit which he himself made.
He falls into the pit who leads another into
it.
He falls on his back and breaks his nose.
He falls short of his duty to both who tries
to serve two masters.
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it
looks.
He fasted for a whole year and then broke
his fast with an onion.
He fasted for a whole year and then broke
his fast with an onion.
He fasts and fasts, then he breaks his fast
with an onion.
He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury
of the waves.
He fears the sack who has been in it.
He fears the very flies.
He feels like a cat in an strange warehouse.
He feigns death like a panther.
He fell to the other side of the horse.
He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow.
He fell with his nose in the butter.
He fells twa dogs wi' ae stane.
He fights windmills.
He fights with horns made of clay.
He fights with spirit as well as with the
sword.
He fills one hole with another.
He fishes in troubled waters.
He fishes in unclear water.
He fishes on who catches one.
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
He flays enough who holds the foot.
He fled from the rain and sat down under
the waterspout.
He flies into the flame, the summer insect.
He flourishes by hereditary renown.
He forges a virtue on necessity.
He forgets himself.