Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
All are not free who mock their chains
All are not friends who smile on you.
All are not good cooks who carry long
knives.
All are not harpers, who hold the harp.
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
All are not maidens that wears bare hair.
All are not men that wear trousers.
All are not merry that dance lightly.
All are not princes who ride with the
emperor.
All are not saints that go to church.
All are not soldiers who go to the wars.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
All are not virgins that carry wreaths.
All are not your friends who smile at you.
All are of the dust, and all turn to dust
again.
All ask if a man be rich, no one if he be
good.
All asses do not go on four feet.
All authors should prepare to encounter
criticism.
All bad things come in threes
All be the same in a hundred years.
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and
began by stealing an anvil.
All birds will flock to a fruitful tree.
All bite the bitten dog.
All but saves many a man.
All cannot have the Bishop for uncle.
All cassavahs have the same skins but not
all taste the same.
All cats are alike grey at night.
All cats are bad in May.
All cats are grey at night.
All cats are grey in the dark.
All cats are not to be set down for witches.
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
All cats love fish but hate to get their paws
wet.
All chili is hot; all women are jealous.
All claim kindred with the prosperous.
All clever men are birds of prey.
All clouds are not rain clouds.
All clouds do not rain.
All cocks must have a comb.
All complain for want of memory, but none
for want of judgement.
All covet, all lose.
All cows are black in the dark.
All cracks, all beares.
All criminals turn preachers under the
gallows.
All days’ evening is not come.
All do not beg for one saint.
All do not bite that show their teeth.
All doctor’s mistakes are buried; traslators,
published.
All doctor’s mistakes lie buried.
All dreams spin out from the same web.
All dumb people have a lot to say.
All earthly goods we have only on loan.
All fails that fools thinks.
All fear has much imagination and little tal-
ent.
All feet tread not in one shoe.
All fellows, Jock and the Laird.
All fish are not caught with flies
All flowers are not fit for nosegays.
All flowers are not in one garland.
All flute-players are mad; when once they
begin to blow, away goes reason.
All food is fit to eat, but not all words are fit
to speak.
All fools are brothers.
All for one and one for all.
All frills and no knickers.
All gardeners know better than other
gardeners.
All good things come to an end.
All good things come to he who waits
All good things must come to an end.
All good women are in the graveyard.
All great truths begins as blasphemies.
All griefs with bread are less.
All hairy skins must not be singed.
All happiness is in the mind.
All happy endings are beginnings as well.
All hat and no cattle.
All heads are not sense-boxes.
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