Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you feel an urge to work, take a nap, and
it will pass.
If you fill your head with pride you will lack
space for wisdom.
If you find "Miss This Year" beautiful, then
you'll find "Miss Next Year" even more
so.
If you find a person staring at you, you
should also stare at him. (If you are at
another place you should do things in
the way that they do them.)
If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
If you find the residents of a place
worshipping a donkey, bring the beast
some grass.
If you find the river flooded, wait.
If you find them worshipping a donkey,
bring them grass.
If you find your friend on the sofa at home
with your wife, you had better sell the
sofa.
If you find your own house is on fire, you
may be sure that your neighbour's house
is burning much more fiercely.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing
to do is stop digging.
If you flatter the mother, you will embrace
the daughter.
If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you
will end up killing it.
If you follow a dog, it will lead you to the
rubbish heap.
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself.
If you follow god, you won't find anything.
If you follow the lead of the cockerel, you'll
be led to the poulterer.
If you followed what a chicken eats would
you be able to eat it?
If you forget your worries, the storm will
blow over.
If you forgive the fox for stealing your
chickens, he will take your sheep.
If you forsake a certainty and depend on an
uncertainty, you will lose both the
certainty and the uncertainty.
If you forsake a certainty for an uncertainty,
you will lose both the certainty and the
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uncertainty.
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for
your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle,
an' as soft as silk remains.
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you
can sleep till noon.
If you get annoyed of what you see, you
blame your eyes.
If you get hold of the head of a snake, the
rest of it is mere rope.
If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, simply
stand up and you will find your way.
If you get rich, be in a dark corner when you
jump for joy.
If you get to thinking you're a person of
some influence, try ordering somebody
else's dog around.
If you get up one more time than you fall
you will make it through.
If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil
sniggers.
If you give a handshake to the leopard, next
time he will come for an embrace.
If you give a man nuts then give him
something to crack them with.
If you give away what you have, you will
not yearn for what you see.
If you give bad food to your stomach, it
drums for you to dance.
If you give him cloth, he'll ask for the lining.
If you give in to a fool, he will say, "This is
because they are afraid of me."
If you give orders and leave, the work won't
get done.
If you give people nuts, you'll get shells
thrown at you.
If you give your goods without a pledge,
you show little inventiveness.
If you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must
dance tump-a-foot.
If you go away, you can't expect people to
keep your place for you.
If you go fishing and catch nothing, go to
the henhouse and get eggs.