Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with
both feet.
Only a fool tries to jump in the fire.
Only a fool who doesn’t see the promises on
the flat chest of a young woman.
Only a fool will make a doctor his heir.
Only a fool will use both his legs to test how
deep a spring is.
Only a fool would prefer food to a woman.
Only a goat that is tired of life invites a lion
to dinner.
Only a heart can find the way to another
heart. A wise man can laugh at his jokes.
Only a knife can best tell a child when to
leave it.
Only a lion knows best its own needs and
can best serve them.
Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.
Only a monkey understands a monkey.
Only a mother can understand the suffering
of a son.
Only a mother would carry the child that
bites.
Only a patient man can milk a lioness.
Only a race horse or a Comyn lord is judged
by his pedigree.
Only a true friend will tell you that your
breath smells.
Only a well-taught groom deserves a bride.
Only a wise person can solve a difficult
problem.
Only an enemy without honor refuses to
show himself in battle.
Only believe in the faith of a woman as you
would believe in miracles.
Only birds of the same clan or species play
together on the same tree.
Only birds with long beaks can drink from
deep pots.
Only bread and an onion? Your life's still an
open one.
Only by falling do you learn how to mount
a horse.
Only chained bears dance.
Only cheese in a mousetrap can be free.
Only child, dear child.
Only death is certain.
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Only death itself can end our hope.
Only death will cure the hunchback.
Only fools and horses work
Only fools and horses work.
Only fools are glad when governments
change.
Only fools don't attack.
Only fools have no fear.
Only fools pay retail.
Only fools seek credit from the
achievements of their ancestors.
Only God can judge and foretell.
Only God generates, man only educates.
Only God helps the badly dressed.
Only God knows one's term of life.
Only great men may have great faults.
Only he knows how to command, who
knows the one who is commanding.
Only he that has traveled the road knows
where the holes are deep.
Only he who carries it knows how much the
cross weighs.
Only he who does nothing makes no
mistakes.
Only he who knows his own weaknesses
can endure those of others.
Only he who understands is really sad.
Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow.
Only in water can you learn to swim.
Only lawyers and painters can turn white to
black.
Only live fish swim up stream.
Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in
the noonday sun.
Only men laugh, only men weep, only men
dance.
Only men with thick lips should smoke a
cigar.
Only moving forward.
Only one can be emperor.
Only one who can swallow an insult is a
man.
Only other people's eggs are double-yolked.