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.
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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.