Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
One finger cannot crush a louse.
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
One finger cannot pick up a louse.
One finger cannot remove lice from the
head.
One finger cannot squash a louse. (A person
who is alone is not able to do things that
require many people.)
One finger cannot wash the whole face.
One finger canot kill a louse.
One finger can't lift a pebble.
One finger does not kill a louse.
One fingernail cannot crush a louse.
One fire brand after another keeps fire
burning.
One fire burns out another’s burning, One
pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.
One first drives off the fox, before taking the
chickens home and blaming them for
straying.
One fisherman knows another from afar.
One fisherman recognizes another from afar.
One fisherman sees another from afar.
One flea does not hinder sleep.
One flower does not bring spring.
One flower does not make a garland.
One flower doesn't bring spring.
One flower makes no garland.
One flower maketh not a bouquet.
One flower will not make a garland.
One fly does not provide for another.
One foe is too many and a hundred friends
are too few.
One follows bees will never fail to get
honey.
One fool always finds a greater fool to
admire him.
One fool is enough in a house.
One fool makes a hundred.
One fool makes many.
One fool may ask more questions than seven
wise men can answer.
One fool may ask more questions than ten
wise men can answer.
One fool praises another.
One foot cannot stand on two boats.
One foot is better than two crutches.
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One foot is better then two stilts.
One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl,
four for a boy. Five for silver, six for
gold, And seven for a secret that must
never be told.
One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a
wedding; four for a birth.
One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to
rot, one to grow.
One funeral makes many.
One generation builds the street on which
the next will walk.
One generation passeth away, and another
generation cometh: but the earth abideth
for ever.
One generation plants the trees, another gets
the shade.
One generation plants the trees, the next
eats the fruit.
One gentle word opens a gate of iron.
One gives by tons, but takes accounts by
ounces.
One gives twice who gives quickly.
One glass can ruin all the beer.
One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.
One God and so many enemies.
One God, one wife, but many friends.
One good argument is worth more than ten
better ones.
One good daughter is worth seven sons.
One good deed has many claimants.
One good father can do more than 100
schoolmasters.
One good forewit is worth two afterwits.
One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
One good punch on your enemy's nose,
gives more pleasure than hearing well-
meaning advice from your elders.
One good turn deserves another.
One good word puts out the flames better
than a bucket of water.
One good word quenches more heat than a
bucket of water.