Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is as well to be naked as to have no
covering.
It is at courts as it is in ponds; some fish,
some frogs.
It is at home, not in public, that one washes
his dirty linen.
It is bad baking without flour and water.
It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.
It is bad iron in which there is no steel.
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story
window on Friday.
It is bad marketing with empty pockets.
It is bad preaching to deaf ears.
It is bad to be between two fires.
It is bad to contend about trifles.
It is bad to get old, for one goes to bed
grumbling.
It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have
a master.
It is bad to lean against a falling wall.
It is bad to stay at home.
It is bad with the bad, but it is worse
without the bad.
It is beautiful to do nothing and then rest
afterwards.
It is because of man we wear swords.
It is below the bottom of a frog.
It is best to ask a man who manages on his
own.
It is best to be off with the old love before
you are on with the new.
It is best to be on the safe side.
It is best to bind up the finger before it is cut.
It is best to learn wisdom by the experience
of others.
It is best to play with equals.
It is best to trust to two anchors.
It is better for the eyes to die than the heart.
It is better for us that the catastrophe
happens instead of waiting for it.
It is better if they say, "He ran away here"
than "He died here."
It is better if you could say "Here he ran
away" than "Here he was killed."
It is better in times of need to have a friend
rather than money.
It is better not to begin than, having begun,
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leave unfinished.
It is better one time to see things than one
hundred times to hear about them.
It is better that trials come to you in the
beginning and you find peace afterwards
than that they come to you at the end.
It is better the child should cry than the
father.
It is better to ask twice than to err once.
It is better to ask twice than to go wrong
once.
It is better to attract two birds to the nest
than one.
It is better to be a beggar than a fool.
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow
for a hundred years.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than
dead for the rest of your life.
It is better to be a fool than obstinate.
It is better to be a free man in a small house
than a slave in a big one.
It is better to be a live rabbit than a tiger.
It is better to be a male for one day than a
female for ten.
It is better to be a master in a cottage than
servant in a castle.
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth
than a man in a lawyer's hands.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
It is better to be alone than to be in bad
company.
It is better to be always prepared than to
suffer once.
It is better to be blind than to see things
from only one point of view.
It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.
It is better to be born lucky than rich.
It is better to be condemned by many
doctors than by one judge.
It is better to be entirely without a book than
to believe it entirely.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
It is better to be ignorant than mistaken.
It is better to be in chains with friends, than
to be in a garden with strangers.