Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is not enough to run, one must start in
time.
It is not every flower that smells sweet.
It is not every hog that the crow will ride.
It is not every man that can carry a falcon on
his hand.
It is not every one who is a son of Gaika.
It is not every one who takes the right sow
by the ear.
It is not feasible, a hare does not prepare
bark cloth
It is not for nothing that the devil lays
himself down in the ditch.
It is not for the blind to give an opinion on
colors.
It is not for the good of the cow when she is
driven in a carriage.
It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.
It is not from the love of God that the cat
catches mice.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled;
through sickness we recognize the value
of health; through evil, the value of
good; through hunger, the value of food;
through exertion, the value of rest.
It is not good praising a ford till a man be
over.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
It is not good to be alone, even in Paradise.
It is not good to be the poet of a village.
It is not good to eat cherries from the same
dish with persons of high rank.
It is not good to paint the devil on the wall.
It is not good to play with the fire.
It is not good to want, and to have.
It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is
hard to bring up a child.
It is not honour for an eagle to vanquish a
dove.
It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing.
It is not lost that comes at last.
It is not necessary to fall into a well to know
its depth.
It is not necessary to fish up every bucket
that falls into the well.
It is not necessary to light a candle to the
364
sun.
It is not often that a man's reputation
outlasts his money.
It is not only one person who bathes in the
witch's water.
It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at
its destination.
It is not only the hare, the tortoise arrives
also at the destination.
It is not right to ask a man with
elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on
small pox as well, when thousands of
other people have not had even their
share of small diseases.
It is not spring until you can plant your foot
upon twelve daisies.
It is not the beard that makes the
philosopher.
It is not the big farmers who reap all the
harvest.
It is not the big oxen that do the best day's
work.
It is not the bullet that kills you, it is fate.
It is not the burden but the over-burden that
kills the beast.
It is not the clothes that count, but the things
the clothes cover.
It is not the cook’s fault when the cassava
turns out to be hard and tasteless.
It is not the cowl that makes the friar.
It is not the destination that is important,
but the journey there.
It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun
that breaks.
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms
the house, but the couple who get along
well.
It is not the gay coat that makes the
gentleman.
It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the
most profound passion.
It is not the habit that makes the Monck.
It is not the hen which cackles most that lays
most eggs.