Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
If you want to be criticized, marry.
If you want to be dead, wash your head and
go to bed.
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a
garden; if you want to be happy for life,
plant a tree.
If you want to be happy, love the one who
loves you, because it's a waste of time to
love someone who doesn't love you.
If you want to be loved by all, first love God,
then your mother and father.
If you want to be loved, be loveable.
If you want to be nagged to your grave,
marry.
If you want to be old, hang yourself when
you are young.
If you want to be respected, you must
respect yourself.
If you want to be revenged, hold your
tongue.
If you want to be served, serve yourself.
If you want to be strong, conquer yourself.
If you want to beat a dog you will easily
find a stick.
If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your
iron.
If you want to blame the fox, then blame the
hen too.
If you want to build high, you must dig
deep.
If you want to buy love, love itself is the
price you'll have to pay.
If you want to catch a black goat you make
haste before it's dark.
If you want to catch a monkey, behave like
one.
If you want to clean the land secretly, the
noise of the axe will give you away.
If you want to control your soul, hand it as a
gift to your intellect.
If you want to destroy your enemy, give
him an elephant.
If you want to die quickly, wash your head
and go to sleep.
If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove
one thorn bush at a time.
If you want to drink clear water from a well
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be there first.
If you want to drown yourself, don't torture
yourself with shallow water.
If you want to eat a monkey, don't look in its
eyes.
If you want to eat a tadpole, choose the fat
and juicy one.
If you want to eat a toad, you should look
for a fat and juicy one.
If you want to eat a toad, you should look
for a fat and juicy one.
If you want to eat a tod, choose a fat and
juicy one.
If you want to eat freshly caught fish, you
don't want to have a tight purse.
If you want to eat pickled herring, think
about the thirst you will have.
If you want to eat pig, choose one which is
fat.
If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to
break a few pipiuses.
If you want to experience the pains of hell,
spend winter in Messina and summer in
Palermo.
If you want to fight fire, you don't wear a
skirt made of dry grass.
If you want to find out about the road
ahead, then ask about it from those
coming back.
If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act
as if you are ignorant.
If you want to give a sick man medicine, let
him first be really ill -- so that he can see
how well the medicine works.
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell
him of your future plans.
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell
Him your plans.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want
to go far, go together.
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you
want to go far, go together.
If you want to go up in the world, veil
ambition with the forms of humanity.
If you want to grow a long tooth you must
have enough lips to cover it.