Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to
listen.
It takes two to make a bargain.
It takes two to make a quarrel but only one
to end it.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end
it.
It takes two to start an altercation, but only
one to end it.
It takes two to tango.
It takes two turbans to make a wise head.
It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.
It that lies not in your gate, breaks not your
shins.
It usually rains where it's already wet.
It was a difficult childbirth.
It was baked too late.
It was Blacksmith's guilt, but the Gypsy was
hanged.
It was needed as a Slovak glazier needed
falling on his back.
It was not on one foot that st. patrick came
to ireland.
It was probably a waste of time anyway.
It was smooth on paper, but forgotten about
ravines.
It was smooth on paper, but we've forgotten
about ravines.
It was the last straw that broke the camel's
back.
It went into smoke.
It will all be the same a hundred years
hence.
It will all come out in the soap-suds.
It will all come right in the wash.
It will always be rotten for me, said the
farmer when they ran out of sacrament
wine precisely when he wanted to go
forward.
It will be a feather out of your wing.
It will be all one a thousand years hence.
It will be all the same a hundred years
hence.
It will be all the same in a hundred years.
It will be an ill web to bleitch.
It will be fool's hardy for the ant to chase an
371
elephant.
It will be what will be.
It will come in an hour, that will not come in
a year.
It will happen when the Danube reverts its
course or dries up.
It will heal well before your wedding.
It will last out our time; if after us no grass
grows, what does it matter to us?
It will not do to keep holidays before they
come.
It will not last longer than frying an egg.
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the
bone.
It will once come to pass as the old goose
quacked.
It will snap where it's the thinnest.
It will soon show which milk will yield a
good curd.
It won't do to trifle with fire.
It won't work to tell your feet: come.
It would be a huge book that contained all
the may be said in a day.
It would be a very big book that contained
all the maybes uttered in a day.
It would be clear enough even to a blind
man.
It would be good to have two mouths and
speak to yourself with both.
It would make a man scratch where it doth
not itch, to see a man live poor to die
rich.
It would puzzle even Apollo to understand
it.
It’s an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
It’s easy to tear down a house than to buld
it.
It’s good to thank the one who made a
blanket when June strikes.
It’s mine, it’s mine made a hole on the
gourd’s side. (Don’t insist on doing
something alone that you know nothing
about as you may destroy it.)
It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in
love.