Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you
will spare yourself one hundred days of
tears.
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of
sorrow.
If you are patient, you can dissect an ant and
see its intestines.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if
you are planning for a decade, plant
trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people.
If you are planning for one year, grow rice.
If you are planning for 20 years grow
trees. If you are planning for centuries,
grow men.
If you are poor, though you dwell in the
busy marketplace, no one will inquire
about you; if you are rich, though you
dwell in the heart of the mountains, you
will have distant relatives.
If you are praised by a villain, mend your
ways at once.
If you are ready to believe, you are easy to
deceive.
If you are sad, act.
If you are saved from the lion, do not be
greedy and hunt it.
If you are sick, think about your life; if you
are better, think about your gold.
If you are standing upright, don't worry if
your shadow is crooked. If you want an
audience, start a fight.
If you are taller than your father, that does
not make you his peer.
If you are threatened by a man, sleep at
night, if it is by a woman then stay
awake.
If you are to hit then make it painful,
because you'll get one blame eitherways.
If you are tolerant in one moment of fury,
you will prevent a year of regret.
If you are too modest you will go hungry.
If you are too modest, then you will go
hungry.
If you are too shy to ask, you might lose
your way. When you go away, the
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conversation changes.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you
had better be too smart to get ill.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you
had better be too smart to get sick.
If you are too sparing with the cat's food, the
rats will eat your ears.
If you are travelling in the blind man's
country close one eye.
If you are travelling towards the East, you
will inevitably move away from the
West.
If you are ugly you should know a song. (If
a person is not able to do one thing, they
should do something else which they are
able to do; I f a person has done
something wrong somewhere, then they
must be able to talk their way out of it.)
If you are ugly, be winsome.
If you are ugly, learn how to dance.
If you are ugly, you must learn to dance or
to make love.
If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then
you are up to your waist in grief.
If you are wearing shoes, you don't fear the
thorns.
If you are wise, look after your house; love
your wife without alloy.
If you aren't in your own home, you dance
while seated.
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell
you where he's going.
If you ask for directions rudely, you might
end up a long distance from your
destination.
If you ask for too much at once, you will
come home with an empty bag.
If you ask questions, you cannot avoid
answers.
If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have
use for it.
If you beat even new floor mats, dirt will
come out.
If you beat my drum, I will blow your
whistle.
If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.