Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Noble birth is a poor dish at table.
Noble deeds are done in silence.
Noble is, that noble does.
Nobleness is not noble ancestry.
Nobles and dogs leave the door open.
Noblesse oblige.
Nobody calls another's father 'dad'.
Nobody can rest in his own shadow.
Nobody can see his own goodness: it can be
seen only by others.
Nobody can slip out of his own skin.
Nobody cares about other people's poverty.
Nobody cries that has not been pinched.
Nobody entering a hut pays for the heart he
will enjoy in it.
Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin
goat.
Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the
floor.
Nobody goes to another monastery with
one's own charter.
Nobody goes to Tula with one's own
samovar.
Nobody grumbles at being rich, all at being
poor.
Nobody grumbles while carrying a load, but
when he has laid it down.
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning
horse.
Nobody hates himself more than he who
hates others.
Nobody is a prophet in his own country.
Nobody is born wise.
Nobody is forced to attend the dinner given
after killing a pig.
Nobody is perfect.
Nobody is shamed twice.
Nobody is to blame for all.
Nobody is to eat the morsel of someone else.
Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at
the bottom of the ocean.
Nobody knows where he goes, but only
whence he comes.
Nobody knows who is he, even if he is
under his father's ears.
Nobody leaves this world alive.
Nobody lift the dog's tail when it defecates.
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Nobody lives in another person's head.
Nobody mourns an unnoticed death.
Nobody returns where he got his finger
bitten.
Nobody sees a miracle from this shrine.
Nobody so wise but has a little folly to
spare.
Nobody sows a thing that will not sell.
Nobody tells all he knows.
Nobody tells all he knows.
Nobody throws a lance if he has no target.
Nobody wages war with ghosts.
Nobody walks with another man's gait
Nobody wants to buy a sleeping horse.
Nobody wants to meet an ill-omened bird.
Nobody will cut a head off except the One
who put it on.
Nobody will plough the land except its
cows.
Nobody's family can hang out the sign,
"Nothing the matter here.
Nobody's perfect.
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
Nodding the head does not row the boat.
Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under
sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.
Noh cup noh brok, noh coffee noh trow
weh.
Noh put yu cap whyu caang reach it.
Noise and hunting don't go together.
Noiseless is the approach of the avenging
deities.
None are deceived but they that confide.
None are more haughty than a common
place person raised to power.
None are so blind as those who refuse to
see.
None as blind as those who will not see.
None as deaf as those who will no hear.
None but a mule denies his family.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
None but the wise man can employ leisure
well.
None can guess the jewel by the casket.