Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you are doing wrong, make sure you don't
get fat from it.
If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave
your axe at home.
If you are eating a sugarcane start with the
sweetest part, in case someone ask you
to share.
If you are filled with pride, then you will
have no room for wisdom.
If you are going a long way, go slowly.
If you are going into the wood -- don't leave
your axe at home.
If you are going out for a fight leave your
best hat at home.
If you are going to bathe, get thoroughly
wet.
If you are going to die you will die in the
dark even if you have been in the candle
business.
If you are going to dig a deadly hole for
somebody, dig it your size because you
might be the one falling inside.
If you are going to do something carelessly,
it is better to give it up entirely.
If you are going to drown, do not try it in
shallow water.
If you are going to fall it's muddy every-
where.
If you are going to fight, pray once; if you
are going to sail, pray twice; if you are
getting married, then pray thrice.
If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is
better than a phoenix.
If you are going to sit on it for three years,
the seat will certainly get warm.
If you are going to steal bells plug your ears.
If you are going to steal horses, steal thor-
oughbreds.
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you
might as well dance.
If you are happy you can always learn to
dance.
If you are honored, honor yourself.
If you are hunting for a red deer then ignore
the hares.
If you are in a boat you are more afraid of
fire than you are of water.
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If you are in a hurry you will never get
there.
If you are in a hurry, go via the roundabout.
If you are in hiding, don't light a fire.
If you are in the bush, have tools. (One
should be ready at the appropriate time.)
If you are in the house of a friend, bad times
are soon forgotten.
If you are injured by a thorn, you will be
healed by a thorn.
If you are kicked from behind, it means you
are in front.
If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel
to the kind.
If you are looking for a fly in your food it
means that you are full.
If you are looking for a fly in your food it
means that you are full.
If you are looking for bad luck, you will
soon find it.
If you are lucky, even your ox will calve.
If you are married to a chicken obey the
chicken. If you are married to a dog obey
the dog.
If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to
bed hungry.
If you are not a fish, how can you know if
the fish are happy?
If you are not an animal you will never find
yourself in a trap.
If you are not going to bite, don't show your
teeth.
If you are not good for yourself, how can
you be good for others?
If you are not so strong, don't carry heavy
burdens.
If you are not told about it, you go among
people soiled.
If you are offered a bull, do not ask how
much milk he will give.
If you are offered a span, do not take a
couple of yards.
If you are on a road to nowhere, find
another road.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you
will escape a hundred days of sorrow.