Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's
head.
It needs a high wall to keep out fear.
It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.
It needs but slight provocation to make the
wolf devour the lamb.
It needs no laran to prophesy snow at
midwinter.
It never hurts to suck up to the boss.
It never rains but it pours.
It never rains on your neighbors without
you getting your feet wet.
It never rains, but it pours.
It never thunders but it rains.
It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep
be.
It only looks that way.
It pays to pay attention.
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the
valley below that got flooded.
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly
that touches on the scrotum.
It requires more courage not to fight than to
fight.
It rings, it is empty.
It rolled like water off a duck's back.
It s the discontented fish that envies the
solely bird.
It sets you weel to gab wi' your bannet on.
It should be better to blame friends at a
distance.
It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-
money to the matron.
It takes a breast for a child to know it's
mother and it takes a mother for a child
to know its father.
It takes a good many mice to kill a cat.
It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the
dark.
It takes a season for a snake to change into
its new skin.
It takes a smart woman to be a fool.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
It takes a tree ten years to mature; it takes a
man one hundred years to form.
It takes a village to raise a child.
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It takes a whole village to educate a child.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
It takes a wise man to learn from his
mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn
from others.
It takes a year to make a friend, but you can
lose one in an hour.
It takes all kinds of trees to make a forest.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes bales of hundredweight because a
fire of straw lasts little.
It takes both luck and good fortune just to
fry eggs.
It takes dough to have crust.
It takes four living men to carry one dead
man out of a house.
It takes great wisdom to play the fool.
It takes half your life to learn who your
friends are and the other half to keep
them.
It takes little effort to watch a man carry a
load.
It takes many words to fill a sack.
It takes more than one blow to fell a tree.
It takes more than one cold day for a river to
freeze three feet deep.
It takes nine months to have a baby, no
matter how many people you put on the
job.
It takes one to know one.
It takes sweat to work on things, but it only
takes saliva to criticize things.
It takes taste to account for taste.
It takes three generation to make a
gentleman.
It takes three years to learn to be a man of
integrity; it only takes three days to
degrade.
It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not
built in a day.
It takes true heroism to conquer oneself.
It takes two blows to make a battle.
It takes two days to learn everything about a
man; to know animals you will need
more time.