Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
An honest citizen is an exile in his own
country.
An honest man does not make himself a
dog for the sake of a bone.
An honest man is not the worse because a
dog barks at him.
An honest man would rather sell his land
than tell a lie.
An honest man’s word is as good as his
bond.
An honest man’s word is as good as the
king’s.
An honest man’s word is his bond.
An honest wife is a treasure that lasts, a sad
wife is worse than the plague.
An honorable death requires no vengeance.
An horse may snapper on four feet.
An hour in the morning is worth two at
night.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the
evening.
An hour may destroy what an age was
building.
An hour of pain is as long as a day of
pleasure.
An hour of play discovers more than a year
of conversation does.
An hungry man sees far.
An icon for the mind is like raw vodka for
the stomach.
An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent.
An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.
An idle brain is the devil’s shop.
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
murderer.
An ignorant person is simply an enemy to
himself.
An ilka-day maks a sabbath-day daw.
An ill cook would have a good cleaver.
An ill hound comes halting home.
An ill life, an ill end.
An ill plea should be well pled.
An ill servant ne’er prov’d a good master.
An ill servant will never be a good maister.
An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
An ill tongue may do much.
An ill turn is soon done.
An ill win penny will cast down a pound.
An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
An illness comes by the pound and goes
away by the ounce.
An ill-paying job is better than a lucrative
heist.
An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose.
An ill-tempered woman is the devil’s door-
nail.
An ill-willy cow should have short horns.
An image of a bamboo has already been
formed in mind before it is committed to
the painting canvas.
An imaginary ailment is worse than a
disease.
An imaginary sickness is worse than a real
one.
An imbecile can manage his own affairs
better than a wise man the affairs of
other people.
An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his
children well.
An idle man is the devil’s bolster.
An idle man is the devil’s pillow.
An idle man is up to no good.
An idle mind is the devil’s playground.
An idle person is the devil’s cushion.
An idle person may have just three tasks:
sleeping, eating and quarrelling.
An idle woman is up to no good.
An idle youth becomes in age a beggar.
An idle youth, a needy age.
An ignorant consent is no consent.
An ignorant doctor is no better than a
An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is
a great advantage.
An inch is a great deal on a nose.
An inch of a nag is worth a span of an aver.
An inch of gold will not buy an inch of
time.
An inch of time cannot be bought with an
inch of gold.
An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an
inch of time cannot be purchased for an
inch of gold.
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