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Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. It's no use crying over spilt milk. Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool. It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. It's no use waiting for your ship to come in, unless you've sent one out. It's normal for a sieve to have holes in it. It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. It's not as good with money as it is bad without it. It's not enough to know how to ride -- one must also know how to fall. It's not every question that deserves an an- swer. It's not good for anyone to be alone. It's not healthy to swallow books without chewing. It's not one person's fault if two people quarrel. It's not over till it's over. It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread. It's not shameful not to know, but it's shameful not to ask. It's not so terrible when you lose money. when courage is lost, all is lost. It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short. It's not the able that give, but the desirous. It's not the aroma of the soup that tells you whether it's sweet or not, but it's the tongue's taste. It's not the beauty of a woman that blinds the man, the man blinds himself. It's not the end of the world. Worse things happened at sea. It's not the fault of one, that two are fighting. It's not the fault of the indian, but of he who makes of the indian his friend. It's not the fault of the mouse, but of the one who offers him the cheese. It's not the fault of the parrot, but of the one who teaches him to talk. 376 It's not the fleas of the dog that make the cat meow. It's not the gale but the set of the sail that determines the way you go. It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. It's not the heat, it's the humidity. It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants. It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. It's not the sin that maddens a person but the desire to do it. It's not worth a cuckoo-spit. It's not worth crying over spilt milk. It's not worth undressing a saint to dress another one. It's often a man's mouth broke his nose. It's often a person's mouth broke their nose. It's only a dead man who has everybody on his side. It's only the ant that hears the whispers of the sand. It's only when a lion is sick that the antelope visits him to reclaim an old debt. It's only when you aim at one spot that your urine foams. It's out of ignorance that a goat will attend a leopard's party. It's ower weel hoardit that canna be fund. It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry. It's pointless to fish if there's no bait on the hook. It's possible to light another man's candle without damaging your own. It's raining pipestems. It's safer to commend the dead than the living. It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. Its smoke is bigger than the flame. It's stinking praise comes oot o' ane's own mouth.