Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He is bad that will not take advice, but he is
a thousand times worse that takes every
advice.
He is between two fires.
He is blind enough who cannot see through
a sieve.
He is blind that eats his marrow, but far
blinder that lets him.
He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in
sand.
He is called clever who cheats and plunders
his friend.
He is caught in his own snare.
He is consumed by a vain hope.
He is dead who is faultless.
He is doing a fireman's work.
He is easy to lure, who is ready to follow.
He is fairest dung when his own wand
dings him.
He is flaying the same bock.
He is full of sweet faults.
He is good and respectful when he is being
shaven during the initiation ceremony.
He is good that failed never.
He is good, only the devils are bad, for not
carrying him away.
He is great whose faults can be numbered.
He is ground between two millstones.
He is guilty who is not at home.
He is happy like one who got a steed for
present.
He is happy that knows not himself to be
otherwise.
He is his own enemy.
He is his own trumpeter.
He is hunting for water in the sea.
He is idle that might be better employed.
He is in no place who is everywhere.
He is in safety who rings the tocsin.
He is in search of a ram with five feet.
He is indeed a conqueror who conquers
himself.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.
He is like a deaf man at a wedding
procession.
He is like a hyena's sinew.
He is like a silver pin, Fair without, but foul
within.
He is like a singed cat, better than he looks.
He is like a swine, he'll never do good while
he lives.
He is like the anchor that is always in the
sea, yet does not learn to swim.
He is like the gardener's dog, who don't eat
cabbage and will let no one else eat
them.
He is like water shaking in a wash tub.
He is little suited to be a baker, whose head
is made of butter.
He is looking out for a fig.
He is lucky who forgets what cannot be
mended.
He is master of another man's life who is
indifferent to his own.
He is miserable indeed that must lock up his
miseries.
He is miserable once, who feels it; but twice,
who fear it before it comes.
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
He is most likely to spill who holds the
vessel in his hand.
He is my friend that grindeth at my mill.
He is my friend that helps me, and not he
that pities me.
He is my friend that succoureth me, not he
that pitieth me.
He is my friend who grinds at my mill.
He is nearest a thing, who has it in his
hands.
He is nearest to God who has the fewest
wants.
He is never likely to have a good thing
cheap that is afraid to ask a price.
He is no friend that eats his own by himself,
and mine with me.
He is no great heir that inherits not his
ancestor's virtues.
He is no merchant who always gains.
He is no small knave who knows a great
one.
He is noble who performs noble deeds.
He is nobody's enemy but his own.
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