Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
One moment of patience may ward off a
great disaster; one moment of impatience
may ruin a whole life.
One moment's error becomes a lifetime of
sadness.
One monk shoulders water by himself; two
can still share the labor between them.
When it comes to three, they have to go
thirsty.
One more good man on earth is better than
an extra angel in heaven.
One mother achieves more than a hundred
teachers.
One mouth doesn't taste the beer.
One muddy buffalo makes the whole herd
dirty.
One must ask about the delight of opium
from one who smokes it.
One must be either anvil or hammer.
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
One must fill the pitcher while the water is
flowing.
One must have to wait till the evening of
one's life time to know what gratitude to
pay to one's guardian spirit.
One must have to wait till the evening of
one's life time to know what gratitude to
pay to one's guardian spirit.
One must howl with the wolves one is
among.
One must howl with the wolves.
One must learn to be bored.
One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.
One must needs like what one cannot
hinder.
One must pass through the door or the
window.
One must row in whichever boat one finds
one's self.
One must sometimes hold a candle to the
devil.
One must step back to make the better leap.
One must talk little, and listen a lot.
One must talk little, and listen much.
One must talk soothingly to the dog until
one has passed him.
One nail drives in another.
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One nail drives out another.
One naturally prefers one's own kind.
One need not enjoy virtue.
One need not throw out the child with the
bathwater.
One needn't study to become a fool.
One needs a long spoon to sup with the
devil.
One never accuses without a little bit of
lying.
One never comes to pray in the Temple of
Three Treasures if he is not in trouble.
One never falls but on the side toward
which one leans.
One never gets more than one's money's
worth of anything.
One never goes so far as when one don't
know whither one is going.
One never loses by doing a good turn.
One never needs their humor as much as
when they argue with a fool.
One never tires working for oneself.
One never wept but another laughed.
One night with an ugly woman and one day
in the mountains both are like an
eternity.
One nostril, two fingers cannot enter. (A
person cannot do two things at once.)
One occasion doesn't make the rule.
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the
boy who wasn't good enough to marry
your daughter can be the father of the
smartest grandchild in the world.
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the
boy who wasn't good enough to marry
your daughter can be the father of the
smartest grandchild in the world.
One of my eyes sheds tears, the other one
laughs.
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions
of today is tomorrow.
One of the two partners always bites the
best part of the apple.