Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse.
He is a bad smith who cannot bear smoke.
He is a bad workman who cannot talk of
work.
He is a buck of an endless forest.
He is a fairy beggar that may not goe by ane
mans door.
He is a fairy Cook, that may not lick his own
fingers.
He is a fool and ever shall, Who writes his
name upon a wall.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he
may kiss the mistress.
He is a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
He is a fool that praises himself, and he a
madman that speaks ill of himself.
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that
he has good wine, a good horse, a
handsome wife, and plenty of money.
He is a fool who cannot be angry but a wise
man who will not.
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a
wise man who will not.
He is a fool who does not consider his own
interests.
He is a fool who does not know from what
quarter the wind blows.
He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap.
He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.
He is a fool who makes his physician his
heir.
He is a fool who marries an old woman
without teeth.
He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree
and forgets its roots.
He is a fool who spares the children after
having killed the father.
He is a fool who thinks that another does
not think.
He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.
He is a fool.
He is a friend when you sneeze -- all he says
is "God bless you."
He is a good dog who goes to church.
He is a good storyteller who can turn a
man's ears into eyes.
He is a great fool who forgets himself.
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He is a great simpleton who starves himself
to feed another.
He is a horse with four white feet.
He is a man as a book.
He is a man that looks after maney as 'njuu'
looks after locusts.
He is a man, who acts like a man.
He is a poor Smith who is afraid of sparks.
He is a proud Tod that will not scrape his
own Hole.
He is a sorry barber who has but one comb.
He is a spoon in all liquids.
He is a thief indeed who robs a thief.
He is a very bad manager of honey who
leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.
He is a very sorry barber who has but one
comb.
He is a weak Horse that may not bear the
Saddle.
He is a wise man who accommodates
himself to all circumstances.
He is a wise man who has no worries about
the things he doesn't have but he rejoices
for those things that he has.
He is afraid of his own shadow.
He is afraid of it, as the devil fears holy
water or incense.
He is always right who suspects that he is
always wrong.
He is an aristocrat in folio.
He is an essence of scoundrels.
He is an ill husband who is not missed.
He is an old saint, any may leave it in the
hands of God.
He is as easily caught as a hare with drums.
He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog;
who ate flesh in Lent.
He is as good a divine as Judas was an
apostle.
He is as impertinent as a fly at the market.
He is as poor as a church mouse.
He is as poor as Job.
He is as sharp as a leaden dagger.
He is as welcome as the first day in Lent.