Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
No one is as deaf as the man who will not
listen.
No one is as generous as he who has
nothing to give.
No one is born and no one dies before their
time.
No one is bound to do impossibilities.
No one is content with his lot.
No one is dragged to heaven by the hair.
No one is either rich or poor who has not
helped himself to be so.
No one is expected to achieve the
impossible.
No one is hanged who has money in his
pocket.
No one is happier than he who believes in
his happiness.
No one is hurt by doing the right thing.
No one is more afraid of ghosts than those
that don't believe in them.
No one is perfect.
No one is poor but he who thinks himself
so.
No one is rich enough to do without a
neighbor.
No one is rich enough to do without his
neighbour.
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor
dissatisfied with his intellect.
No one is so generous as he who has
nothing to give.
No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to
give.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
No one is so rich that he can do without a
good neighbor.
No one is so tall that he never needs to
stretch, and no one is so short that he
never needs to stoop.
No one is too old to learn.
No one is unhappier than the one who
believes in happiness.
No one is wise enough to advise himself.
No one is wise in his own affairs.
No one is without knowledge except him
who asks no questions.
No one is worse, for knowing the worst of
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themselves.
No one knows better where the shoe pinches
that he who wears it.
No one knows for whom they work.
No one knows how the poor man dines.
No one knows if a bird in flight has an egg
in its stomach.
No one knows the parson better than the
clerk.
No one knows the story of tomorrow's
dawn.
No one knows what a day may bring forth.
No one knows what the dinner was after the
plates have been washed.
No one knows what will happen to him
before sunset.
No one knows where another's shoe
pinches.
No one knows where the shoe pinches, but
he who wears it.
No one likes justice brought home to his
own door.
No one likes to be the first to step on the ice.
No one likes to bell the cat.
No one likes to eat crumbs from a feast;
everyone likes to sit at the table.
No one loathes the smell of himself.
No one loves another better than himself.
No one ought to be judge in his own cause.
No one perceives where the shoe pinches
but he who wears it.
No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the
mouth of their friend and then says 'you
mouth stinks.'
No one says his own buttermilk is sour.
No one says, "My pasture is not sweet."
No one says, 'my yogurt is sour.'
No one sees his own faults.
No one should forget old friends and old
goats.
No one should take in an eating pawn.
No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper
who has got into power.
No one so sure but he may miss.
No one survived Khitomer.