Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
When a lion cannot find the flesh to feed on,
it has no choice but to eat the grass.
When a lion eats a bad person and it is not
killed, tomorrow it will eat a good
person.
When a lion is old, he becomes the
plaything of jackals.
When a lion roars, he does not catch game.
When a lion runs and looks back, its not that
he is afraid, rather he is trying to see the
distance he has covered.
When a madman walks naked, it is his kins-
men who feel ashamed.
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to
feel.
When a man cheats on you once, shame on
him, when he cheats on you twice,
shame on you.
When a man curses his own child it is a
terrible thing.
When a man dies his feet get bigger.
When a man finds no peace within himself,
it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
When a man finds that he was wrong to
have refused to eat, he should leave his
anger and play a harp to call for
harmony.
When a man gets his feet in lime, he cannot
easily get rid of it.
When a man has fallen into the mire, the
more he flounders the more he fouls
himself.
When a man hurries, the devil smiles.
When a man is coming toward you, you
need not say, "Come here."
When a man is crazy about a woman, only
she can cure him.
When a man is down, everyone runs over
him.
When a man is falling, every saint pushes
him.
When a man is going down the hill
everyone will give him a push.
When a man is in a sack, he must get out at
the mouth or at the bottom.
When a man is in trouble, he smokes.
When a man is not a lover in his twenties,
688
not strong in his thirties, not rich in his
forties and not wise in his fifties, he will
never be so.
When a man is not liked, whatever he doth
is amiss.
When a man is not used to breeches, the
seams gall him.
When a man is rich, he begins to save.
When a man is wealthy, he may wear an old
cloth.
When a man loses his prestige, he does not
regain it by going to where he is not
known.
When a man moves away from nature his
heart becomes hard.
When a man raises his voice at home, know
that he started lowering it elsewhere.
When a man remembers the land, the land
remembers him.
When a man repeats a promise again and
again, he means to fail you.
When a man says he does not mind, then he
really does.
When a man says yes, his chi says yes also.
When a man says yes, his personal god says
yes also.
When a man sleeps, it is the same person
when he wakes up.
When a man stops thinking, he stops
feeling.
When a man wants a wife, he wants but a
wife; but when he has got a wife, he
wants a great deal.
When a man's coat is threadbare, it is easy to
pick a hole in it.
When a man's friend marries, all is over
between them.
When a man's mode of life is contemptible,
it follows that his preaching is treated
with contempt.
When all men speak, no man hears.