Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
There is never enmity between the cook and
the butler.
There is never enough where nought is left.
There is never trust without loss.
There is never wanting a dog to bark at you.
There is never wanting an excuse for
drinking.
There is no accounting about tastes.
There is no accounting for tastes.
There is no answer for God out of my house,
and What have you to do with my wife?
There is no appeal from time past.
There is no bad food in a famine.
There is no bad patience.
There is no bad weather only bad clothing.
There is no beard so well shaven but
another barber will find something more
to shave from it.
There is no beast so savage but sports with
its mate.
There is no beast that does not roar in its
den.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
There is no benefit that sticks to the fingers.
There is no better friend than a burden.
There is no better looking-glass than an old
friend.
There is no better manure than the farmer's
foot.
There is no better mirror than a best friend.
There is no better mirror than the face of an
old friend.
There is no better patch than one off the
same cloth.
There is no better sale than when you give a
true friend what he needs.
There is no better surgeon than one with
many scars.
There is no bitter crust to a hungry person.
There is no blindness but the blindness of
the heart.
There is no blindness like ignorance.
There is no boneless fish.
There is no book that contains absolutely
nothing bad, and there is no book that
contains absolutely nothing good.
There is no bow without its meat.
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There is no bush so small but casts its
shadow.
There is no butcher that does not slaughter.
There is no chapel so small but has its saint.
There is no choicer morsel than that which is
stolen.
There is no coat big enough to hide both
poverty and drunkenness.
There is no coincidence in getting married.
There is no companion like the penny.
There is no cure against a slanderer's bite.
There is no cure for an unknown illness.
There is no cure for vulgarity.
There is no cure that does not cost.
There is no cure that does not have its price.
There is no day that goes without the moon
and no day that goes without sunrise
and sunset.
There is no day without its night.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
There is no departing from the words of the
law.
There is no difference between the thief and
the looker-on.
There is no disgrace in honest labour.
There is no disinterested gift.
There is no distinction among the common
baskets made of palm branches.
There is no doctor on the day you die.
There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but
wags his tail.
There is no earthly bliss not watered by
tears.
There is no economy in going to bed early to
save candles if the result is twins.
There is no education like adversity.
There is no eel so small but it hopes to
become a whale.
There is no elephant that complains about
the weight of its trunk. No elephant is
burdened by the weight of its tusks.
There is no escape from heaven's web.
There is no escape from the net of heaven.
There is no evil without goodness.