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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 319 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.