Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
One can care little for man, but we need a
friend.
One can do anything, only will is needed.
One can easily judge the character of a
person by the way they treat people who
can do nothing for them.
One can even get used to living hell.
One can forgive a murder but not
impoliteness.
One can get sick of cake, but never of bread.
One can live on a little, but not on nothing.
One can lose four and eight.
One can love and be wise.
One can never know too much.
One can never repay one's debt to one's
mother.
One can not stop sleeping in fear of bad
dreams.
One can only go round a pepper tree, but
can never climb it .
One can only try to get what one can from
the head of an elephant, no one ever
carries it home.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one
dies forever in debt to those who are
kind.
One can see it but must not say, when the
master of a house passes excreta in a pot.
One can speak and seven can sing.
One can stand still in a flowing stream, but
not in a world of men.
One candle for St. Michael, and another for
his devil.
One cannot always find a fish under a
willow.
One cannot be and have been.
One cannot be at the oven and the mill at the
same time.
One cannot be cautious enough.
One cannot be in two places at once.
One cannot become a priest just by having a
rosary.
One cannot blow and swallow at the same
time.
One cannot borrow a man's mouth and eat
onions for him.
One cannot both feast and become rich.
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One cannot count on riches.
One cannot die twice.
One cannot drink and whistle at the same
time.
One cannot eat the meat of every bird.
One cannot fight the wind.
One cannot go back to the farmer from
whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant
to say that the beetles have eaten up the
seed-yams.
One cannot keep peace longer than his
neighbour will let him.
One cannot learn to swim in a field.
One cannot love and be wise.
One cannot make a fur coat from a "Thank
you."
One cannot make soup out of beauty.
One cannot manage too many affairs; like
pumpkins in water, one pops up while
you try to hold down the other.
One cannot please everybody and one's
father.
One cannot put everything under one hat.
One cannot put out fire with fire.
One cannot quarrel without an opponent.
One cannot refuse to eat just because there is
a chance of being choked.
One cannot ring the bells and walk in the
procession.
One cannot scoop up the ocean with a sea
shell.
One cannot serve two masters.
One cannot shoe a running horse.
One cannot sit in two saddles having one
arse/bottom only.
One cannot ski so softly that the tracks
cannot be seen.
One cannot strip two hides from one fox.
One cannot wash a blackamoor white.
One can't break an axe with a whip.
One can't die if he's brave. Even when he die
his name lasts forever.
One can't enter Paradise in spite of the
saints.
One can't give a grasshopper to a child if
one has not caught it yet.