Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you want to stay full of good health,
always eat eggs and drink wine.
If you want to sweep the steps clean, start at
the top.
If you want to take a high jump, you need to
take a few steps backwards.
If you want to take revenge on a man, send
him a really beautiful woman.
If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a
drink of water in the sun.
If you want to totally avoid being deceived,
get married on February 30th.
If you want to travel fast use the old roads.
If you want to understand men, study
women.
If you want to watch, you'd better keep
quiet.
If you want visitors then you leave your
front door open.
If you want your children to have a peaceful
life, let them suffer a little hunger and a
little coldness.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't
over sleep.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't
sleep.
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them
yourself.
If you wanted bananas could you have left
them in the abandoned village? (you
should think carefully befor taking
action)
If you wanted obedience command with
what is possible.
If you waste time, surely time will waste
you.
If you watch your pot, your food will not
burn.
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world,
in the end you will have no eyes.
If you were born lucky, even your rooster
will lay eggs.
If you were born to be shot, you'll never be
hung.
If you were in a place you take care of it has
if it where yours.
If you what the hyena to eat a person then
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tie on him goats ears.
If you will learn news, you must go to the
oven or the mill.
If you will not hear reason, she will surely
rap your knuckles.
If you will stir up the mire, you must bear
the smell.
If you wish a thing done, go; if not, send.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first
keep it yourself.
If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
If you wish good advice, consult an old
man.
If you wish someone evil, give him a horse,
and if you wish him more evil, give him
two horses.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you
are bad.
If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.
If you wish to die young, make your
physician your heir.
If you wish to do a good deed, consult no
one.
If you wish to drown, do not torture
yourself with shallow water.
If you wish to eat a mushroom, you cannot
consider what the mushroom fed on.
If you wish to know the mind of a man,
listen to his words.
If you wish to know the mind of a man,
listen to his words.
If you wish to know what a man is, make
him king.
If you wish to know what a man is, place
him in authority.
If you wish to know what most occupies a
man's thoughts, you have only to listen
to his conversation.
If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin
with the alphabet.
If you wish your merit to be known,
acknowledge that of other people.
If you wish/ask, wish/ask for more.
If you won't work, you shan't eat.
If you would acquire fame, let not the sun
shine on you in bed.