Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is a good wind that blows a man to the
wine.
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one’s
ability.
It is a great art to laugh at your own
misfortune.
It is a great point of wisdom to find out
one's own folly.
It is a greater gift to give than to receive.
It is a grief to one beggar that another stands
at the door.
It is a hard morsel that chokes.
It is a hard task to comfort the proud.
It is a hard winter when one wolf eats
another.
It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
It is a lazy bird that will not build its own
nest.
It is a lazy man who says "it is only because
I have no time that my farm is
overgrown with weeds".
It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a
serious matter to lose one's virtue.
It is a lonely washing that has no man's shirt
in it.
It is a lonesome washing without a man's
shirt in it.
It is a long day, a day without bread.
It is a long lane that has no turning.
It is a loss of soap to wash the ass's head.
It is a man with a harp who should decide
how he is going to sleep.
It is a man's challenge to go as far as he can
on the right road.
It is a mean mouse that has but ae hole.
It is a mean thing to despise unsuccessful
merit.
It is a misery to be born, a punishment to
live, and a trouble to die.
It is a nasty bird that files its ain nest.
It is a no good hen, that cackles in your
house and lays in another's.
It is a pain both to pay and pray.
It is a person suffering from cold who will
first think of closing the door.
It is a poor dog that's not worth whistling
for.
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It is a poor fox that has but one hole.
It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats.
It is a poor mouse that doesn't have more
than one hole.
It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.
It is a poor parish where the priest has to
ring his own bells.
It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.
It is a poor village that has neither smoke
nor fire.
It is a poor wood that has never a withered
bough in it.
It is a pot of water that is already half full
that the world would like to help in
filling to the brim.
It is a proud horse that will not bear his own
provender.
It is a rarity to find someone who can weigh
other people's faults without putting his
own thumbs on the scale.
It is a real compliment that comes from an
enemy.
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder
than the cock.
It is a sad situation for a son-in-law when
his mother-in-law praises him.
It is a sair field where a's slain.
It is a sheep who lets himself sheared.
It is a sign of weakness just to let things
happen.
It is a silly flock where the yow bears the
bell.
It is a silly hen that canna scrape for ae bird.
It is a sin against hospitality to open the
doors and shut up the countenance.
It is a sin to lye on the Devil.
It is a solace to the miserable to have a
companion in their grief.
It is a sooth board that men sees wakin.
It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the
bell.
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent
and the hen crows