Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
When planning for a year, plant corn. When
planning for a decade, plant trees. When
planning for life, train and educate
people.
When pleasure interferes with business,
give up business.
When poor, liberal; when rich, stingy.
When poverty comes in the door, love flies
out the window.
When prices drop, buy.
When problems come they carry along with
them all their relatives.
When problems visit a man, it arrives with
its own bed and table.
When prominent persons fights, commoners
would suffer.
When prosperity smiles, beware of its
guiles.
When pumpkins are watered, brinjals [small
plants] also get watered.
When rain beats on a leopard it wets it, but
rain does not wash out its spots.
When rat like fi romp 'roun' puss jaw, one
diay 'im gwine en up inna puss craw.
When riding on top of an elephant, do not
assume there is no dew in the thicket.
When rogues fall out honest men come into
their own.
When rogues fallout, many a secret is
revealed.
When rogues go in procession, the devil
carries the cross.
When sheep get angry, they are worse than
wolves.
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a
winning game.
When silent men speak, they speak to the
purpose.
When sleeping women wake, mountains
move.
When someone claims an inheritance, he
sometimes has to pay for the funeral.
When someone gives you a drop of water,
reward him with a never ending source.
When someone is already approaching,
there is no need to say "Come here."
When someone is going downhill, everyone
697
likes to give them a kick.
When someone is really hungry, then there
is no such thing as "bad food."
When someone offends you, you haven't
given him enough love.
When someone's wealth improves, all of a
sudden their house's columns appear to
be crooked.
When something happens, praise it.
When something has been denied of you,
you can still do it once.
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
When spherical bodies can unite and
embrace, then there will be friendship
amongst the avaricious.
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a
lion.
When storms roll in, dogs make beds.
When sweethearts want each other, the
parents must inevitably accede.
When swindlers meet a genuinely honest
man, they're so astonished they regard
him as a greater swindler than
themselves.
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the
general's reputation is enhanced.
When the affected lady is doing well, she
eats her peas with a pin.
When the ale is in, wit is out.
When the alms is too large, even a saint will
be suspicious.
When the angels appear, the devils run
away.
When the angels arrive, the demons leave.
When the Angels arrive, the devils leave.
When the angels present themselves, the
devils abscond.
When the apple gets ripe, it's likely to fall.
When the apple is ripe, it will fall.
When the arrow head misses the target, can
the handle hit it?
When the ass is too happy he begins
dancing on the ice.