Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If blood is spilt on you before breakfast, you
will shed blood before nightfall.
If Candlemas day be sunny and bright,
winter will have another flight; if
Candlemas day be cloudy with rain,
winter is gone and won't come again.
If Catania had a port, Palermo would be
dead.
If charity cost nothing and benevolence
caused no heartache, the world would be
full of philanthropists.
If charity cost nothing, the world would be
full of philanthropists.
If charity costs nothing, the world would be
full of philanthropists.
If chickens were judges, cockroaches would
be sentenced.
If chickens were judges, cockroaches would
be sentenced.
If children's prayer had any effect, there
wouldn't be a single teacher alive.
If cooks quarrel, the roast burns.
If crab don't walk 'bout crab don't eat.
If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would
they do to the flesh of a frog?
If death be terrible, the fault is not in death,
but thee.
If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere
vanity and emptiness.
If destiny does not fit you, fit yourself to
destiny.
If doctors fail thee, be these three thy
doctors--Rest, cheerfulness, and
moderate diet.
If dolphins swim toward Hilo, the sea will
be calm; if the dolphins swim toward
Ka'u, the ocean will be rough.
If each one sweeps before his own door, the
whole street is clean.
If each person would sweep before his own
house, the city would soon be clean.
If eating poison finish up the plate.
If envy were a fever, all the world would be
ill.
If envy would burn, there would be no need
for wood.
If ever ye make a lucky pudding, I shall eat
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the prick.
If ever you should need my life, come and
take it.
If every bird take back its own feathers,
you'll be naked.
If every day was a sunny day, who would
not wish for rain?
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be
kings.
If every man would sweep before his own
door, the city would soon be clean.
If every man would sweep his own doorstep
the city would soon be clean.
If every one were wise, a fool would be the
prize.
If everybody said bread and cheese, you put
your head down and die.
If everyone cleaned his own doorstep, all the
streets would be clean.
If everyone gives one thread, the poor man
will have a shirt.
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then
one person does not become tired.
If everyone is going to dance, who, then,
would watch?
If everyone swept in front of his house, the
whole town would be clean.
If everyone swept the pavement in front of
his house, the whole street would be
clean.
If everyone thought the same way, no goods
would ever be sold.
If everyone were a gentleman, who would
make the mills work?
If everyone were allowed to take from the
world all her heart desired, there would
be nothing left for anyone else.
If everyone's misfortunes were seen by all in
broad daylight, in the end people would
take back their own.
If everything that came from your tongue
were to come into your hands, then
every beggar would be a pasha.
If fate throws a knife at you, there are two
ways of catching it: by the blade or by
the handle.