Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Everyone is master of their own fear.
Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the
garden.
Everyone is tempted to evil.
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Everyone is the blacksmith of his own
fortune.
Everyone is the son of his own works.
Everyone is weary: the poor in seeking, the
rich in keeping, the good in learning.
Everyone is wise till he speaks.
Everyone is worth more than his neighbor
and less than his son.
Everyone knows best where his own shoe
pinches.
Everyone knows that you mustn’t praise a
good wine, a good horse and a good
wife.
Everyone knows the bear, but the bear
knows no one.
Everyone knows what’s cooking in their pot.
Everyone knows where his own shoe
pinches him.
Everyone lays a burden on the willing horse.
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of
another.
Everyone loves the tree that gives him
shelter.
Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Everyone must row with the oars they have.
Everyone praises his native land.
Everyone prefers his own.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Everyone put up his mind for sale on the
market, and liked his own mind.
Everyone puts his fault on the times.
Everyone rakes the fire under his own pot.
Everyone rejoices at the end
Everyone runs to cut wood from the fallen
tree.
Everyone should carefully observe which
way his heart draws him, and then
choose that way with all his strength.
Everyone should contribute when collection
is made.
Everyone speaks well of the bridge which
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carries him over.
Everyone stones the tree that bears fruit.
Everyone stretches his legs according to the
length of his coverlet.
Everyone thinks his own burden the
heaviest.
Everyone thinks his own cross is heaviest.
Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good.
Everyone thinks his own thoughts are best.
Everyone thinks of his own gain, and plays
in this way to deceive his companion.
Everyone tries to make the water flow to his
mill.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody
wants to die
Everyone wants to go to heaven; the desire
is there but the fortitude is not.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one
wants to be called old.
Everyone who is successful must have
dreamed of something.
Everyone will sit on a little donkey.
Everyone wipes his feet on poverty.
Everyone’s companion is no one’s friend.
Everything beautiful is loveable.
Everything comes round.
Everything comes to him who waits.
Everything comes to the man who does not
need it.
Everything dear is a woman’s fancy.
Everything does not fall that totters.
Everything ends in weeping.
Everything goes by favour and cousinship.
Everything goes down the slope and
everyone is inclined to the worst.
Everything goes to him who does not want
it.
Everything happens for a reason.
Everything has a pattern and a partner.
Everything has a wherefore.
Everything has an end with the exception of
God.
Everything has an end.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone
sees it.
Everything has its season.