Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
I was young, now i'm old, and i did not see
a righteous man forsaken and his
children begging for bread.
I wat where my own shoe binds me.
I went straight into a fools trap.
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a
man who had no feet.
I wept when I was born and every day
explains why.
I will charge thee nothing but the promise
that thee will help the next man thee
finds in trouble.
I will do anything except bear the
responsibility of guarding a house that
has two doors.
I will do what I can, and a little less, to be
able to continue at it.
I will get it because I can, one says with a
reason.
I will not change a cottage in possession for
a kingdom in reversion.
I will win the horse, or lose the saddle.
I wince to win.
I winna mak a toil o' a pleasure, quo' the
man when he buried his wife and was
asked to speed it up.
I wish I were at home.
I wish that he would sink as deep in the
ground as a hare can run in ten years.
I wish to see him when I see the middle of
my back.
I wot well how the world wags, He is most
loved that hath most bags.
I would as soon see your nose be cheese,
and the cat get the first bite of it.
I would I had as meikle pepper as he counts
himself worthy Mice dirt.
I would know your gift by your
graciousness.
I would like to break off the flower, but the
branch is too high.
I would not purchase it at the price of a
rotten nut.
I would not wipe my muddy boots in him.
I would rather be deceived by an intelligent
person than by a jackass.
I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a
298
bad man in distress.
I would rather be your bible than your
horse.
I would rather buy than beg.
I would rather have a clever woman than a
rich one.
I would rather have a dog as a friend than
an enemy.
I would rather have a dog my friend than
enemy.
I would rather have a donkey that can carry
me than a horse that throws me.
I would rather see smoke from my own
chimney than the fire on another's
hearth.
I would rather see't than hear tell o't, as
blind Pate said.
I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you.
Ice in spring is treacherous; new friendships
are seldom sure.
Iceland is the best land on which the sun
shines.
Ices plant a new, one.
I'd rather be red than dead.
I'd rather have them say "There he goes"
than "Here he lies."
Ideas are something that usually comes like
fireman- too late.
Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people
who put them into action are priceless.
Idiots can sometimes give good advice.
Idle brains are the devil's workshop.
Idle folks have the least leisure.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts
all others.
Idle people have the least leisure.
Idleness has poverty for wages.
Idleness is a fool's desire.
Idleness is ever the root of indecision.
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is
bull brother.
Idleness is mother to all vices.
Idleness is the beginning of all sin.
Idleness is the devil's bolster.
Idleness is the key of poverty.