Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He must have clean fingers who would
blow another's nose.
He must have crept out of hell while the
devil was asleep.
He must have fingers made of iron, that the
devil wants to flay.
He must have iron fingers who would flay
the devil.
He must have keen eyes that would know a
maid at sight.
He must have leave to speak who cannot
hold his tongue.
He must have much meal who would stop
all mouths.
He must have plenty of butter, who would
stop everybody's mouth.
He must indeed be a good master who
never does wrong.
He must keep a sharp look-out who would
speak the truth.
He must rise betimes who would please
everybody.
He must shoot well who always hits the
mark.
He must stand high that would see the end
of his own destiny.
He must stoop that has a low door.
He names a rope in the house of a man that
was hanged.
He need not search his pockets for words.
He needs a long candle who awaits the
death of another.
He needs a long spoon that would eat out of
the same dish with the devil.
He needs say nothing about the score who
pays nothing.
He ne'er did a gude darg that gaed
grumbling about it.
He never did a good day's work who went
grumblingly about it.
He never smiles, not even for hot bread.
He never was a friend who ceased to be so
for a slight cause.
He never was a friend who has ceased to be
one.
He on whose head we would break a
coconut never stands still
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He on whose head we would break a
coconut never stands still.
He opens the door with an ax.
He opens the theatre, and immediately
closes it.
He ought not to complain of the sea who
returns to it a second time.
He ought to be feared who sends you with a
message, not the one to whom you are
sent.
He owed the devil a journey.
He painted a tiger, but it turned out a dog.
He pays dear for honey who licks it off
thorns.
He pays for the glasses who breaks them.
He plaints early that plaints on his kail.
He plays best, who wins.
He plays well that wins.
He plays with open cards.
He plays with somebody as a cat plays with
a mouse.
He ploughs the land of others, and leaves
his own untilled.
He pours oil on the fire.
He preaches water and drinks wine.
He preaches well that lives well.
He prepares evil for himself who plots
mischief for others.
He promised me earrings, but then only
pierced my ears.
He pulls at a long rope who desires
another's death.
He pulls the honeyed string before him or
before his nose.
He pushes it away with the hand, but pulls
it forward with the foot.
He puts his hand into a wasp's nest.
He puts his sickle into another man's
harvest.
He puts on the right/wrong horse.
He puts out the eye of somebody with
something.
He puts the dot on the i.
He puts up with small annoyances to gain
great results.