Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is easy to be liberal out of another man's
purse.
It is easy to be the father of children already
born.
It is easy to be wise after the event
It is easy to be wise after the event.
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
It is easy to bear them (children) but the
names! (having many children, but
failing to take care of them)
It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.
It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but
difficult to get rid of him.
It is easy to catch a serpent with someone
else's hand.
It is easy to collect ears of corn under, beside
a stack.
It is easy to cut the tail of a dead wolf.
It is easy to cut thongs form other men's
leather.
It is easy to despise what you can't get.
It is easy to die -- the difficulty lies in living.
It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in
front of you but hard to avoid an arrow
shot from behind.
It is easy to dodge the arrow of an enemy,
but difficult to avoid the spear of a
friend.
It is easy to drive with your own whip and
another's horse.
It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.
It is easy to find the rod when another finds
the bottom.
It is easy to fool the young wolf.
It is easy to forget a kindness, but one
remembers unkindness.
It is easy to frighten the bull from the
window.
It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but
difficult to get one general.
It is easy to give advice when all goes well.
It is easy to go on foot if you are holding
your horse by the rein.
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult
to rule one's family.
It is easy to halve the potato where there is
love.
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It is easy to help him, who is willing to be
helped.
It is easy to inflict a wound, but difficult to
heal it.
It is easy to manage when fortune favors.
It is easy to open a store -- the hard part is
keeping it open.
It is easy to poke another man's fire.
It is easy to preach fasting with a fully belly.
It is easy to pull a thorn out of someone
else's skin.
It is easy to push a cart drawn by twelve
oxen.
It is easy to say "Come" difficult to say "Go".
It is easy to see the fly on the other person's
nose, while ignoring the horse on your
own.
It is easy to set a cask a rolling.
It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.
It is easy to straighten in the oak the crook
that grew in the sapling.
It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.
It is easy to swim, when another holds up
your head.
It is easy to tempt a frog to the river.
It is easy to threaten a bull from a window.
It is easy to undress the naked.
It is eich to cry yule on another man's cost.
It is eith till, that the awn self will.
It is eith to swim where the head is hild up.
It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.
It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all.
It is far easier to spot faults in another than
virtues in oneself.
It is fitting for a great God to forgive great
sinners.
It is folly to drown on dry land.
It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.
It is folly to gape against an oven.
It is folly to live in Rome, and strive with the
Pope.
It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot
and put it into your own.