Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Invite people into your parlor, and they will
come into your bedroom.
Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will
take away the lemon.
Involuntary love is worthless.
Io get what we want, we must accept some
things we don't want. No rose without a
thorn.
Irish women have a dispensation from the
pope to wear the thick ends of their legs
downwards.
Iron does not clang by itself.
Iron is worked when it's still hot.
Iron kills iron dies.
Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets
heated.
Iron that is not used soon rusts.
Iron that works does not rust.
Iron whets iron.
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
Is the white camel made of fat?
Is there no mean but fast or feast?
It ain't over till the fat lady sings.
It all depends on whose ox is gored.
It always takes a person much longer to tell
you what he thinks than what he knows.
It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure
of never falling into poverty.
It belongs neither to the sea nor to the
mountain.
It' better fi lose yu timedan yu character.
It can be impossible to change an
established image.
It cannot be true religion if it loves money.
It chances in an hour, that happens not in
seven years.
It costs something to be a Christian, but it
costs more to be a sinner.
It costs you your good spirit to steal than
buying or seeking.
It dangerous to speak against those who are
in authority.
It dawns none the sooner for all one's early
rising.
It destroys the craft not to learn it.
It dies and rises like the moon.
It does no harm now and then to burn a
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candle for the devil.
It does not always rain when a pig squeals.
It does not become the sparrow to mix in the
dance of the cranes.
It does not depend upon the dog when the
horse shall die.
It does not fall to the lot of all to smell of
musk.
It does not matter if your tavern sits in a re-
mote location so long as the smell of
your wine is appealing.
It does not pay to talk a lot.
It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long
as you don't stop.
It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just
as long as you don't stop.
It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock
of sheep.
It doubles the value of a gift to be well-
timed.
It early pricks that will be a thorn.
It fares ill with the house when the distaff
commands the sword.
It fares ill with the house where the spinning
-wheel commands the sword.
It fell to the thirtieth of dogs.
It flies at our approach but follows us as we
retire.
It flies gently, but wounds deeply.
It flows like a fountain from a broomstick.
It gangs in at ae lug and out at the ither.
It goes as meiklle in his heart, as in his heel.
It goes ill in the house where the hen sings
and the cock is silent.
It goes in at one ear, and out at the other.
It goes like clockwork.
It goes like cuts of a whip.
It goes off as when the blind fight.
It goes without saying
It grieveth one dog that another goeth into
the kitchen.
It hangs by a hair.
It hangs upon a silken thread.
It has become a proverb.