Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you do something wrong to me, I forgive
you. But I know that someday God will
make you hit the son of a chief on the
head. Then the chief will punish you.
If you do what you've always done, you'll
get what you've always gotten.
If you don’t like the heat, get out of the
kitchen.
If you don't aspire to great things, you won't
attain small things.
If you don't believe in cooperation, watch
what happens to a wagon when one
wheel comes off.
If you don't cherish the little, you don't
deserve the more.
If you don't collect the sheep early, you get
neither the sheep nor the wool.
If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the
nut.
If you don't deceive, you can't sell.
If you don't eat mangos that fall on the
ground, be sure to be strong enough to
pick ones on the tree.
If you don't eat you will die; overeating will
shorten your life.
If you dont fill a crack, you will build a wall.
If you don't have a brain, join the army; if
you don't have rice, use beans instead.
If you don't have a dog, you hunt with a cat.
If you don't have a hundred rubles, make
sure you have a hundred friends.
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll
be a part of someone else's.
If you don't have an enemy, don't you have
a cousin?
If you dont have anything nice to say, dont
say anything at all.
If you don't have money, you're not worth
listening to.
If you don't have time to do it right you
must have time to do it over.
If you don't have what it takes you won't get
on in the world.
If you don't have what you like, then you
should like what you have.
If you don't honor your wife, you are
dishonoring yourself.
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If you don't hope, you won't be crushed.
If you don't inquire, you're bound to make
mistakes.
If you don't know by age twenty, don't do
by age thrity, don't have by age forty,
you will never know, never do, and
never have.
If you don't know death look at the grave.
If you don't know the path to the spring or
swamp, follow the trail of broken pots.
If you don't know the way, walk slowly.
If you don't know what to do, don't do
anything.
If you don't know where you are going, any
path will take you there.
If you don't know where you are going, look
back to where you've come from.
If you don't know where you are, any road
will do.
If you don't know where your going to then
any road will take you where you're
going.
If you don't lift the skirt of a bride you don't
know what she wears under it.
If you don't light fires, smoke won't get in
your eyes.
If you don't like dogs, you don't like people.
If you don't like the heat, get out of the
kitchen.
If you don't love yourself with passion,
you'll love others with it. Passion is
conserved.
If you don't make mistakes you don't make
anything.
If you don't mend up a small crack on the
wall you end up building the entire wall.
If you don't pay a servant his wages, then he
will pay himself.
If you don't plant, you get nothing.
If you don't recognize God, at least know
Him by His power.
If you don't say how you want your hair
styled, they will give you a bad haircut.
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't
view the plain.
If you don't see the bottom, don't wade.