Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Immortal glory waits on talent.
Immortality is surely a pleasant feeling,
especially when the individual is still
alive.
Impatience does not diminish but augments
the evil.
Impatience with your brother is in the flesh,
it doesn't reach the bone.
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and
beguile us as they pass.
In a battle between elephants, the ants get
squashed.
In a breadless home, everyone complains
and nobody is right.
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
In a choice between bad company and
loneliness -- the second is preferable.
In a community it's better every person to
have a little of something than one
person to have everything.
In a community, your reputation matters. in
a strange place, your clothing counts.
In a conclave many go in as a pope but come
back out as the cardinal they were when
they went in.
In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins
his case.
In a crush, yet without resentment.
In a deal there are two fools: the one who
asks too much and the one who asks too
little.
In a deserted village the jackass is king.
In a family if you have somebody who is
troublesome it's the family members
who are worried than the troublesome
member.
In a fiddler's house, all are dancers.
In a fight the rich man tries to save his face,
the poor man his coat.
In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who
quits.
In a fire, both green and dry wood burn.
In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a
mountain.
In a game it's difficult to know when to stop.
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In a garment made of silk there are no fleas.
In a golden sheath a leaden knife.
In a good book the best is between the lines.
In a good family the husband is deaf and the
wife blind.
In a good time I speak it, in a better I leave
it.
In a good word there are three winters'
warmth; in one malicious word there is
pain for six frosty months.
In a group of many words, there is bound to
be a mistake somewhere in them.
In a healthy body, a healthy spirit.
In a house of gold the clocks are of lead.
In a house where two daughters live, the cat
dies of thirst.
In a hundred years we will be dead anyway.
In a large church no priest dies.
In a long race the good horse prevails.
In a no-win situation where all the possible
solutions present has terrible
consequences.
In a perch is no broth, in a foolish person is
no wisdom.
In a place without dogs they teach the cats
to bark.
In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation.
In a quarrel, the higher voiced person will
win.
In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.
In a rickety stable the cow produces no milk.
In a small house God has His corner; in a big
house, He has to stand in the hall.
In a smith's house the knife is wooden.
In a soap maker's house, a person who
doesn't fall, slips.
In a strange land one should always move
near one's kinsmen.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not one
ounce of love.
In a trade someone always loses.
In a tree that you can't climb, there are
always a thousand fruits.
In a treeless country, the castor-oil plant is a
big tree.