Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into
beautiful butterflies after seasons.
It’s too late to shut the stable-door after the
horse has bolted.
Italian devotion and German fasting have
no meaning.
Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the
learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.
Italy will take care of itself.
It's a bad bridge that is narrower than the
stream.
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
It's a bad hen that won't scratch herself.
It's a bad hound that's not worth the
whistling.
It's a bad mouthful that chokes.
It's a bad plan that cannot be changed.
It's a bad sign when the sick person tosses
and turns in bed.
It's a bad start on the week for the man who
is hanged on a monday.
It's a big wind that blows on small doors.
It's a brave bird that makes its nest in the
cat's ear.
It's a cauld stamach that naething hets on.
It's a cold coal to blow at.
It's a crime if you get caught.
It's a fair dung bairn that dare not greit.
It's a far cry to loch awe.
It's a fine sermon about fasting when the
preacher just had lunch.
It's a foolish sheep that makes the wolf its
confessor.
It's a free country.
It's a friend who gives you advice.
It's a good answer that knows when to stop.
It's a good horse that never stumbles.
It's a good marriage when he's twenty eight
and she's eighteen.
It's a great advantage to love someone in
your neighborhood: you see each other
often and you don't have to travel.
It's a hardship that will go away.
It's a ill kitchen that keeps the breid awa.
It's a long lane that has no turning.
It's a long river whose head can't be found.
It's a long way from the said to the done.
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It's a' outs an' ins, like Willie Wood's wife's
wame.
It's a poor bird that fouls its own nest.
It's a poor frog who doesn't play with his
own pond.
It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
It's a poor mouse that sits on the sack and
doesn't gnaw.
It's a poor sheep that cannot carry its own
wool.
It's a sad house where the hen crows louder
than the cock.
It's a silly pack that may not pay the custom.
It's a sin to steal a pin.
It's a small thing that outlives a man.
It's a Small world.
It's a sooth dream that's seen waking.
It's a very proud horse that will not carry his
oats.
It's a well-known fact, dirt stinks more when
stirred.
It's all fate and chance.
It's all grist to the mill.
It's all right to drink like a fish if you drink
what a fish drinks.
It's always good business to know about
new customers before they walk in the
door.
It's always good to have an old man at a
little boy's side.
It's always hard to convince a hungry
person.
It's always something said the girl with a
nosebleed.
It's an easy burden that another carries.
It's an ill army when the devil carries the
colours.
It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
It's an ill cause that a lawyer thinks shame
of.
It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
It's an ill supper which come from other's
hand.
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.