Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The devil can swallow a woman but he can't
digest her.
The devil catches most souls in a golden net.
The devil climbs the bell tower in a priest's
cassock.
The devil dances in an empty pocket.
The devil dances in empty pockets.
The devil dances nowhere as much as
between a couple.
The devil does not always wear boots -- he
sometimes comes barefoot.
The devil does not sleep.
The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
The devil finds work for idle hands.
The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar's
skirts.
The devil gives even rich men presents.
The devil goes away and heaven comes to
stay.
The devil has his martyrs among men.
The devil hides behind the cross.
The devil hides himself in details.
The devil is always at the elbow of an idle
man.
The devil is bad because he is old.
The devil is civil when he is flattered.
The devil is cunning.
The devil is fond of his own.
The devil is in the details.
The devil is never so black as he is painted.
The devil is not always at a poor man's door.
The devil is not as scary as they paint him.
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
The devil is not so frighful as he is painted.
The devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
The devil is so fond of his son that he put
out his eye.
The devil is wiser not because he's the devil,
but because he's old.
The devil knows a lot because he's old.
The devil knows many things because he is
old.
The Devil knows more because he's old than
because he's the devil.
The devil laughs when the poor donates to
the rich.
The devil leads him by the nose who the
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dice too often throws.
The devil likes to hide behind a cross.
The devil likes to souse what is already wet.
The devil lives beneath a slattern woman's
skirts.
The devil looks after himself.
The devil looks after his own.
The devil loves no holy water.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
The devil makes his Christmas pies of
lawyers' tongues and clerk's fingers.
The devil makes work for idle hands.
The devil may die without my inheriting his
horns.
The devil never grants long leases.
The devil never misses the bus.
The devil often lurks behind the cross.
The devil places a pillow for a drunken man
to fall upon.
The devil protects his own.
The devil rebukes sin.
The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve
mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord
scolded them both in German. Then the
angel drove them from paradise in
Hungarian.
The devil sits behind the cross.
The devil sups with the tax collector.
The devil sweetens another man's wife with
a spoonful of honey.
The devil take the hindmost.
The devil takes a hand in what is done in
haste.
The devil takes care of his own.
The devil tempts all men, but idle men
tempt the devil.
The devil tempts all other men, but idle men
tempt the devil.
The devil turns away from a closed door.
The devil was good looking at eighteen, and
course tea makes a bitter first cup.
The devil was handsome when he was
young.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would
be; the devil was well, the devil a monk
was he.