Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
It is hard to catch hares with unwilling
hounds.
It is hard to find a pin in the dark.
It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the
prick.
It is hard to glean after a niggardly
husbandman.
It is hard to hide poverty and love.
It is hard to hunt the hare out of the bush it
is not in.
It is hard to labour with an empty belly.
It is hard to live in Rome and strive against
the Pope.
It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands.
It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.
It is hard to pay for bread that has already
been eaten.
It is hard to pay for porridge that has been
eaten.
It is hard to please a' parties.
It is hard to please everyone.
It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell.
It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind
without water.
It is hard to sit in Rome and strive with the
Pope.
It is hard to steal where the host himself is a
thief.
It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.
It is hard to swim against the current.
It is hard to swim against the stream.
It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
It is hard to teach old dogs to bark.
It is hard to track the path the ship follows
in the ocean.
It is hard to wive and thrive in a year.
It is hard work to be the mother of many
pigs.
It is harder to be poor without complaining
than to be rich without boasting.
It is harder work getting to hell than to
heaven.
It is hasty speed that doesn't succeed.
It is he who got milk that is merciful.
It is he who has no place to call at that
moves fast through life.
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It is heavy to carry, but you cannot throw it
away.
It is height makes Grantham steeple stand
awry.
It is honourable to be accused by those who
deserve to be accused.
It is human to err, but diabolical to
persevere.
It is hunger that killed the man with many
wives.
It is idle to swallow the cow and choke on
the tail.
It is ill bringing butt what's no benn.
It is ill catching hares with drums.
It is ill done to chain a dragon for roasting
your meat.
It is ill fishing before the net.
It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.
It is ill getting breeks aff a Highlandman.
It is ill jesting with sharp tools.
It is ill prizing of green barley.
It is ill putting a sword in a madman's hand.
It is ill sailing against wind and tide.
It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against
the Pope.
It is ill takin' the breeks off a highlandman.
It is ill to bring but the thing that is not
thereben.
It is ill to bring out of the flesh that is bred in
the bene.
It is ill to draw a strea before an old cat.
It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs.
It is impossible to add much weight with a
single morsel; it is hard to travel afar
with a single step.
It is impossible to find a man who has
everything, but it is possible tofind one
who enjoys the things he has.
It is impossible to go and look into the
stomach of another.
It is impossible to tie a knot without the
thumb.
It is in our work that we discover love and
faith.