Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If he's your flatterer, he can't be your friend.
If his legs fail him, he fights on his knees.
If horses neigh to one another, they become
acquainted, if people talk to one another,
they become acquainted.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year
to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-
yams, the succeeding years would still
be worse because he would have no
yams to eat and none to plant.
If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth.
If I am in harmony with my family, that’s
success.
If I am like others, who will be like me?
If i am not for myself, who will be? but if i
am only for myself, what am i? and if not
now, then when?
If I am not to myself, who will be? And
when I am to myself, who am I? And if
not now, when?
If I am seen, I am joking; if I am not seen, I
steal.
If I am to be drowned, it shall be in clean
water.
If i am virtuous and worthy, for whom
should i not maintain a proper concern?
If I can get his cart at a Waltar, I shall lend it
a put.
If I canna do't by might, I'll do't by sleight.
If I cannot move the powers above, Acheron
itself shall be appealed to.
If I could see your face, I would not need
food.
If I dealt in candles, the sun wouldn't set; if I
dealt in shrouds, people would stop
dying.
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall
see.
If i had a dog as daft as you i would shoot
him.
If I had a dog as daft, I would shoot him.
If I had known, I would have cooked okra.
(Don’t rely on things that are not seen,
because they may fail to eventuate.)
If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one
and buy hyacinths, for they would feed
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my soul.
If I have decided to love somebody, I oblige
myself to be patient with him/her.
If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.
If I haven't eaten wheat-bread, I've seen it in
people's hands.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the
singing bird will come.
If I know I will die tomorrow, I can still
learn something tonight.
If I listen, I have the advantage; if I speak,
others have it.
If I may not keep geese, I shall keep gesline.
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the
wind blows.
If I say, it is pregnant, If I do not say, it is not
pregnant.
If I see you often, I can't call you a visitor.
If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know
not for whom.
If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. If
I act on my dream, perhaps you will
remember it, but if I involve you, it
becomes your dream too.
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
If I went to sea I should find it dry.
If I were a prophet, I wouldn't be wretched.
If I were to trade in winding sheets, no one
would die.
If I wrestle with a filthy thing, win or lose, I
shall be defiled.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be
no work for tinkers
If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd
be no work for tinkers' hands.
If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be
no trade for tinkers.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people
happy?
If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would
go wanting work.
If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither
good for hay nor grain.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it