Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Nothing is had for nothing.
Nothing is haste but catching flies.
Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Nothing is lost for asking.
Nothing is lost in a good market.
Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to
pray or to feed your horse.
Nothing is more changeable than time and a
woman.
Nothing is more contagious than a bad
example.
Nothing is more durable than a hog's snout.
Nothing is more easily blotted out than a
good turn.
Nothing is more elegant than ready money.
Nothing is more expensive than the first
beer.
Nothing is more foolish than to dabble in
too many things.
Nothing is more humiliating than when a
reproach recoils on the head or him who
utters it.
Nothing is more like an honest man than a
rogue.
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and
nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome
than mere ceremony.
Nothing is new under heavens.
Nothing is new under the sun.
Nothing is perfect in this world.
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
Nothing is so clean as a fish.
Nothing is so clean as a fish.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot
master it.
Nothing is so full of victory as patience.
Nothing is so liberally given as advice.
Nothing is so new as what has long been
forgotten.
Nothing is so new but it has happened
before.
Nothing is so reckless as a blind horse.
Nothing is such a heavy burden as a secret
is.
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Nothing is too difficult you only need to
know how.
Nothing is true, all is permisable.
Nothing is worse than waiting or chasing.
Nothing looks more like a man of sense than
a fool who holds his tongue.
Nothing looks more like an honest man than
a villain.
Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a
fool who holds his tongue.
Nothing new under the sun
Nothing on earth is greedier than the eye.
Nothing passes between asses but kicks.
Nothing prevails against wealth.
Nothing reaches the intellect before making
its appearance in the senses.
Nothing resembles an honest man more
than a cheat.
Nothing seems expensive on credit.
Nothing should be done in a hurry except
catching fleas.
Nothing should be wasted
Nothing so bad as not to be good for
something.
Nothing so bad but it finds its master.
Nothing so bad but it might have been
worse.
Nothing so bad in which there is not
something of good.
Nothing so bold as a blind mare.
Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt.
Nothing so good as forbidden fruit.
Nothing so good but it might have been
better.
Nothing so visible than what you want to
hide.
Nothing speaks more eloquently than
money.
Nothing stake, nothing draw.
Nothing stimulates the appetite like little on
the plate.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing tastes more bitter than the truth.
Nothing that is violent is permanent.
Nothing to be got without pains but
poverty.