Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you continue to contaminate your own
home, you will eventually suffocate in
your own waste.
If you crape gourdy, you fin' worm-hole.
If you cry and receive someone to help you
cry more then you cry more.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of
your life, your tears will prevent you
from seeing the stars.
If you cry because you miss the sun, your
tears will not let you see the moon.
If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its
your maize farm that suffers.
If you curse your wife in the evening, you
will sleep alone at night.
If you cut down the trees you will find the
wolf.
If you damage the character of another, you
damage your own.
If you dance with the devil you can't change
him but he will change.
If you dance, you must pay the piper.
If you deal in camels, make the doors high.
If you debark a tree don't expect it to live
again; you can only plant another of its
kind.
If you decide to dress up a lizard you
should count for its tail.
If you decide to eat a toad, you should at
least select one that is big.
If you deliberate for too long, you will end
up with leftovers.
If you desire many things, many things will
be seem but a few.
If you desire peace, be ever prepared for
war.
If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can
swim.
If you didn't catch anything when fishing,
then a crab is a fish.
If you dig a grave for others, you might fall
into it yourself.
If you dig a hole to bury a person but
instead of burying that person you may
be the one to be buried in this place.
If you dig a pit for me, you dig one for
yourself.
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If you dig a pit for others, you might fall
into it yourself.
If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it
be up to the elbow.
If you do a person a favor, you'll be his
superior; if he does one for you, his
inferior; and if neither, you'll be his
friend.
If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude
he will deliver you to hell.
If you do not agree with the phases of the
moon, get a ladder and repair it.
If you do not fill up a crack, you will have to
build a wall.
If you do not have a head, you must have
legs.
If you do not have patience you cannot
make beer.
If you do not have sandals, find some, if you
do not have gun powder, find some for a
score to settle with you on the battle
grounds.
If you do not honor your parents, your
children will not honor you.
If you do not know how to fish, do not stir
up the water.
If you do not know what to say, say what
your elders said.
If you do not seal the holes, you will have to
rebuild the walls.
If you do not sow in the spring you will not
reap in the autumn.
If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will
not bite you.
If you do not strike back at him who hits
you, there is no way for him to find out
whether you also have hands.
If you do not study hard when young you'll
end up bewailing your failures as you
grow up.
If you do not travel, you will marry your
own sister.
If you do not want anyone to know, do not
do it.