Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.
Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.
Ingratitude is the world's reward.
Ingratitude sickens benevolence.
Injure others, injure yourself.
Injuries destroy affection.
Injuries put us on our guard.
Injuries we write in marble, kindnesses in
dust.
Injuries, when treated with contempt,
vanish and have no effect. If you show
anger their effect would appear to be
acknowledged.
Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom.
Injury is to be measured by malice.
Injustice all round is justice.
Ink on paper.
Ink, if not used, will dry up.
Inner peace and love are the greatest of
God's gifts.
Innocence can be an offence.
Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a
mask.
Innocence plays in the backyard of
ignorance.
Innocent actions carry their warrant with
them.
Inquire about everything that you may
understand it. be good tempered and
magnanimous, that your disposition
may be attractive.
Inquire seven times then doubt a person.
Inquiry saves a man from mistakes. He who
makes no inquiry, gets himself into
trouble.
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same
way and expecting a different outcome.
Inscribe science in writing.
Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.
Inside a well-nourished body, the soul
remains longer.
Instead of a fish he gives you a scorpion.
Instead of a treasure, coals.
Instead of being near a pagan you rather be
near an animal.
Instead of better, it got worse.
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is
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full of thorns, be happy that the
thornbush has roses.
Instead of cutting it bit by bit, cut it once and
finish with it.
Instead of worrying, a strong man wears a
smile.
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Instruct a man, you instruct an individual.
Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation.
Instruction in youth is like engraving in
stone.
Insults must be written in sand and
compliments carved in stone.
Insults should be well avenged or well
endured.
Intelligence is a fruit picked in the
nieghbour's garden.
Intelligence is endowed, but wisdom is
learned.
Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.
Intelligence is the best capital.
Intemperance is the doctor's wet-nurse.
Interest on debts grows without rain.
Interfere not in the quarrels of others.
Interpretation: If you are going to do
something, do it right.
Into every life a little rain must fall
Into every life a little rain must fall.
into the grave you do not go with envy
Into the house where joy lives, happiness
will gladly come.
Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a
good bone.
Into the mouth of a wolf.
Intoxication is not the wine's fault but man's.
Invalids live longest.
Invalids live the longest.
Invite a beggar to break bread and you will
be minding the silver all evening.
Invite a peasant to your table and he'll put
his feet on it.
Invite him as not to antagonize him, shove
him off as not to let him eat.