Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you become a dog, turn into the dog of a
wealthy family.
If you befriend a mosquito it will still attack
you at night.
If you believe everything you read, you had
better not read.
If you borrow a man’s legs, you will go
where he directs you.
If you borrow from an eagle you will always
be looking up in the sky.
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man
you have to repay him with wheat.
If you bow at all, bow low.
If you break a coconut on a man's head, he
will not enjoy eating it.
If you break the fast, better eat pork, not
curds.
If you build according to every man's
advice, you will have a crooked house.
If you build it they will come
If you burn a house, can you conceal the
smoke?
If you buy cheap meat, when it boils you
smell what you have saved.
If you buy cheap meat, you'll smell what
you have saved when it boils.
If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.
If you buy things you don't need, you are
stealing from yourself.
If you buy things you don't need, you will
soon be selling things you do need.
If you buy things you don't need, you'll
soon be selling things you do.
If you buy what you don't need, you steal
from yourself.
If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if
you call a slave a slave, he cries.
If you call a piece of wood 'child', you can
never use it to light fire since it has be-
come so precious.
If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.
If you called yourself a milk-mushroom get
into the basket!
If you can bear the hissing of a snake, don't
complain when you are bitten.
If you can command yourself, you can
command the world.
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If you can envision it, You can accomplish it.
If you can imagine it, You can reach the
heavens.
If you can give me no ointment for my
wound, can you help me by not rubbing
salt in?
If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the
maid.
If you can not find peace within yourself, it
is useless to look elsewhere.
If you can walk, you can dance; If you can
talk, you can sing.
If you can’t be good, be careful.
If you can’t resolve your problems in peace,
you can’t solve them with war.
If you can’t resolve your problems in peace,
you can’t solve war.
If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.
If you cannot be shamed, you cannot be
honored.
If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor
of a rich man.
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the
sea.
If you cannot dance, you will say the
drumming is poor.
If you cannot drive an ox, drive a donkey.
If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.
If you cannot get the bird, get one of its
feathers.
If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it
open.
If you cannot make a man thing as you do,
make him do as you think.
If you cannot moan in a true cultural
manner then it means your laughing.
If you cannot say it, point to it with your
finger.
If you cannot serve, you cannot rule.
If you cannot take things by the head, then
take them by the tail.
If you can't be good, be careful.
If you can't be good, then be careful.
If you can't beat em, join em.