Ghanaian Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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ADINKRA ALPHABET – African Proverbs – Back 2 BU – Bay Art – Proverbical

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1. A wife should be as bright as sunshine and as sweet as honey.
2. A barefoot person knows when the ground is hot but not one wearing shoes.
3. A bitter heart chews at its owner’s other vital organs.
4. A calf that is suckling does not bawl.
5. A child does not laugh at his mother’s ugly face.
6. A child learns to only bite off what he can chew.
7. A child who asks questions seeks to be wise and not a fool.
8. A child who has never been to his friend’s house believes his mother is the only source of good food.
9. A child who washes his hands is old enough to dine with adults.
10. A child will be more successful if he isn’t raised on a bed of down.
11. A crab does not give birth to eagles.
12. A family looks like a forest from the outside; inside, each is an individual.
13. A good wife lives with her husband, a poor one with her mother.
14. A healthy person who begs is insulting those from whom he begs.
15. A king’s reign will be uneventful when he has good counselors that he heeds.
16. A knife’s master is the person holding it.
17. A lizard who can hide grows to be a crocodile.
18. A malicious deity is the one to whom sacrifices are given.
19. A man who knows whom to respect paves his way to advancement.
20. A person with no money has no friends.
21. A proud person can endure social unrest because it isn’t personal.
22. A single bad fruit can spoil a barrel of wine.
23. A stranger at a party will dance, but singing exposes too much of his soul.
24. A woman is a blanket that warms a man both day and night.
25. A woman is a flower in a home that a man puts walls around.
26. A woman is like a rat that eats your leftover food.
27. A year or two of poverty will root out your conceit.
28. Although snakes do not fly, they do catch birds.
29. An African shouldn’t suffer the loss of life from an argument in Europe.
30. An angry crowd is not hard to set on fire with half-truths and lies.
31. An army is driven away by the demonstration of our courage and not by shouting insults at them.
32. An enslaved person doesn’t choose his master, but a wage slave does.
33. Before any action, make sure you have a reliable backup.
34. Blame the cat, but if you do, you must blame the mouse also.
35. Death gives away the key that opens the miser’s chest.
36. Do not look to where you fell but for the precursors to your slip.
37. Do not put yourself in a position where you can easily be picked off.
38. Don’t always follow the common path but begin by creating a new trail.
39. Don’t expect a chair where the chief sits on the floor.
40. Don’t let what you can’t accomplish deter you from what you can.
41. Don’t look back if you hear someone yell; the witch is going.
42. Don’t poke at a porcupine with a dinner fork.
43. Even a toothless old woman keeps her tiger nuts in a private snack bag.
44. Even healthy old men will not live forever.
45. Even if a man’s eyes are blind, they still close when he sleeps.
46. Even though we carry gunpowder on our heads, we still smoke a pipe.
47. Every man’s best weapon is his good sense and moderate speech.
48. Everyone knows when the cinnamon rolls are in the oven.
49. Hate isn’t a medicine, and it won’t cure any problems.
50. He ate his wife’s dowry, his house, and his fingernails.
51. He who always supports you may be faking his loyalty.
52. He who falls victim to people he has violated can expect no mercy.
53. He who jumps into a river must be prepared to swim.
54. Holy men created the ugly death symbols to scare people into paying a ransom.
55. However high you lift a human kid or a goat kid, you must place them gently back on the ground.
56. I will take it because I want to and can make up a reason later.
57. If a game hunter comes back with mushrooms, don’t ask him how his day went.
58. If a goat lives with a flock of sheep, there will still be black spots on this body.
59. If a mad man snatches your blanket while you sleep, do you chase him?
60. If a strong man has nothing else, he can still impress weak men.
61. If a woman gets rich, she talks like a businessman.
62. If all seeds that fall grew, the forest would soon be solid wood.
63. If power can be bought, then some men will sell their mothers to get it.
64. If the road you are on doesn’t go anywhere, find a road that does.
65. If the young palm tree is planted near a mighty odum tree, it will thrive.
66. If there are things that are known, they can be taught and learned.
67. If there were no elephants, the buffalo would be the symbol of greatness.
68. If two proverbs clash, it requires wisdom to know which to use.
69. If two selfish men sit near a pot of water, the water will get spilled.
70. If we knew where death was, we would avoid that place.
71. If you catch no fish, you will have to eat old bread.
72. If you don’t fix the lock on your door, you will never find your misplaced jewelry.
73. If you live too near your relatives, they will avoid you.
74. If you look at the King’s mouth, you can’t imagine he once suckled his mother’s nipples.
75. If you need to speak to God, go to a wide-open place, speak clearly, then listen.
76. If you take care of a chicken, the chicken will take care of you.
77. If your life is getting easier, perhaps you are going down.
78. If youthful pride were spendable wealth, then every man was rich for a while.
79. In ancient times a single lie ruined a thousand truths.
80. It is a fool who buys his own tomatoes.
81. It is a good child who can learn from observing others.
82. It is a wife who best knows her husband.
83. It is an old man who chooses to live with an old woman.
84. It is calm water that lures a child into drowning.
85. It is easier to become a monk after the passions of youth have passed.
86. It is honorable to work for society’s benefit and be paid for doing it.
87. It is people who love you that come into your house.
88. It only takes a single tree a decade to make a forest.
89. It’s bad luck to point your left finger at your home.
90. It’s the skinny rat that is looking for food.
91. Like the Pharaohs of Egypt, the rich and poor spend most of their existence lying dead within the earth.
92. Lions are the heroes in their combats with humans.
93. Little boy, don’t cry; you are the son of a man.
94. Little monkeys play with little monkeys.
95. Long strings laying about will have knots.
96. Loving someone who does not love you is like looking at a beautiful sunset.
97. Misfortune doesn’t come Saturdays alone.
98. Money cuts through more problems than swords.
99. Most people are asleep when it rains at night.
100. No one boasts of another person’s stuff.
101. Nothing is permanent, even time itself.
102. One man’s good luck is another’s bad luck in zero-sum games.
103. Only you know where your back itches.
104. Patience is good, but satisfaction is better.
105. Proof that a shepherd is a fool is if his sheep break loose.
106. Searching beyond the borders of knowledge is better than not searching anywhere.
107. The chicken is never a winner in the court of hawks.
108. The cock raises its head to swallow water.
109. The common wisdom is spoken in simple proverbs.
110. The creatures of the world build a home to fit their needs.
111. The goat says: “You bought my mother, not I. I behave to suit myself.”
112. The goats say what the sheep are afraid to say: death is inevitable, so enjoy life while you have it.
113. The hands wash one another, and the face too.
114. The hen knows when it’s morning but still listens for the cock’s crow.
115. The monkey proves that yawning is contagious by yawning at you.
116. The Moon moves slowly, but it always makes it from the east to the west.
117. The orphan rejoices while eating but begins worrying about the next meal when finished.
118. The past carries powerful inertia into the future.
119. The rich man or any other man who isn’t trying to impress people may wear old clothes.
120. The rich play with the rich, and famous with famous, and poor with poor.
121. The riches of the greedy go to the community upon their death.
122. The ruin of a nation begins with destroying people’s faith in one another.
123. The soul of a rich man has no obligations to a poor one.
124. The stomach never takes a day off for a vacation.
125. The vulture tastes too horrible to eat, but they brood their eggs in the heights of a tree to avoid the predations of man.
126. The water of a river is beautiful, but you don’t want to sleep there.
127. The young grasshopper who stays near its mother eats good food.
128. Theft between beggars is a punishable crime.
129. There is no effective therapy against a decrepit old age except caution.
130. Things are always changing for the worse, and yet they are always a little bit better.
131. To understand our future needs, we need to study how we came to be what and where we are today.
132. Truth is a cure for diseases of the mind, but most people don’t like the flavor of the medicine.
133. Two enemies in a sinking boat cooperate to keep it afloat.
134. We all hate ants on kola nuts because they can’t eat them but refuse to leave.
135. We humans must treat other humans as sacred beings.
136. What a cat ignores a dog will bark at.
137. What is destined to happen will happen, like the sunrise and sunset, but rolling dice plays by different rules of destiny.
138. What people earn by hard work doesn’t go to their neighbors.
139. When a man is in his castle, he can not be defeated.
140. When a man’s coat is old, coins will make a hole in the pockets and escape.
141. When a woman is hungry, she may ask to find food for the kids.
142. When I fall, and you fall, it’s fair play, but when you fall, and I fall, you pulled me down.
143. When it is time for action, you must act as if it is impossible to fail.
144. When the rooster is drunk, he ignores the distant hawk.
145. When you are inside a forest, you see that every tree is an individual.
146. When you sit alone in your house, you can’t learn how to cope with the problems of the world.
147. When you tell a fool a proverb, it must be accompanied by an explanation.
148. When you walk in your father’s footsteps, you will walk like him.
149. When your bag tears, your shoulders’ work gets transferred to your arms.
150. Whenever a slave feels hunger, the King must worry about a general famine.
151. Where did God spend His childhood?
152. Wisdom is not like gold which retains its value even when unused.
153. You can point your finger at guilt, but you can not hide behind it.
154. You learn how to make arrows by comparing your new ones to old ones that fly right.
155. You must get out into the world to learn how to cope with it.
156. You must have some experience with farming to talk to a farmer about farming.
157. You still might need to invite his attention when a man is approaching.
158. You support a worthy cause even without getting a personal reward.

Mozambican Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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– African Proverbs – Inspirational Stories – Proverbical – World Proverbs

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1. A bite by a lion is just a warning, so have a dog with you to distract the lion.
2. A calabash gourd can be used as a drum, canteen, or finally as a tight garbage container.
3. A calm man with foresight can guide a nation to a better life than an angry crowd.
4. A chicken egg will make more eggs and then crow about it by persevering with its nature.
5. A crab will not bite you, but his handshake will hurt.
6. A fire, or a cow, will consume grass, but the living roots will sprout more grass.
7. A fool has many good days, sprinkled among the bad ones.
8. A grateful man will receive more kindness than an ungrateful one.
9. A leech that does not let go, even when full, will die on dry land.
10. A man doesn’t run through a dangerous place for no reason; either he is chasing an outlaw, or an outlaw is chasing him.
11. A parasite must find a host to survive, or he will die.
12. A river is controlled by its natural banks, not the ones people erect.
13. A sinking ship needs a navigator to tell the survivors which way to go.
14. An ant colony’s queen lives well protected even from elephants.
15. An elephant must be cautious and protect itself from many dangers.
16. An elephant that kills a rat is not a hero among other elephants.
17. An elephant with a broken leg must keep up with his family.
18. Bees are the doctors of flowers and keep them healthy.
19. Do not fight with lions if you are not a lion yourself.
20. He who led me through the night to safety will be profoundly thanked by me at dawn.
21. Hunger makes all living things come out of their safe hiding places to eat.
22. If a mattress is not available, a man can sleep standing on icy ground by leaning against a tree.
23. If a pregnant woman falls, the child in the womb will complain.
24. If people are abusive to a domestic cat, it becomes a wild cat.
25. If you are not a lizard in your own land, you will never be a crocodile in another land.
26. If you can not build a house, build a shed and sleep there until you can build part of a house.
27. If you choose to rule the world, don’t tie it with a rope, or the world will break free and crush you.
28. If you climb a tree to its top, the earth will welcome you at the bottom.
29. If you do not get out of your mother’s house, you will be forced to marry your sister.
30. If you see a snake, step back because it feels threatened and will defend itself.
31. Madness will destroy a country, but a sane discussion will save it.
32. Monkeys avoid dead trees with brittle branches.
33. Never marry a woman with feet bigger than yours.
34. Never try to cut the tusks from a living elephant.
35. Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog.
36. One-legged dancers have unique ways of following the rhythm.
37. Only deaf grasshoppers are eaten by noisy hornbills.
38. Run away from a chicken that attacks you in the morning; it may have grown teeth overnight.
39. Slander spoken by a stream will be heard by frogs and repeated into your ears.
40. Tattoos drink your blood.
41. The loudness of a drum is not determined by its size but by the drum’s strength and the drummer’s power.
42. The news is always the same awful stuff, but they change the names to make it appear new.
43. The owl keeps its eyes open but speaks little of what it sees.
44. The reflection of you that you see in a mirror doesn’t see you.
45. The vulture has no business with those who created the carrion it eats.
46. There is a highway straight up the palm tree to the coconuts.
47. There is no cock without a comb.
48. Unlike a man, a bird does not change its coat because of the weather.
49. When a lion is crippled, the hare goes into his lair and hops around to tease the helpless monarch.
50. When the lions are sleeping, the other animals are rulers of the savanna.
51. When two elephants meet on a narrow path, they alone must settle their problem.
52. When you are in a forest, ignore the noise of breaking twigs, or you will never get to where you are going.
53. When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for all of the arriving residents.
54. Whether the knife falls on the melon or vice versa, the melon is cut.
55. Witch doctors do not reveal their secret potions to one another.
56. You cannot dance well on one leg.
57. You hear an elephant’s trumpet but never a complaint about how big its trunk has grown.

Malay Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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– Bin Gregory – Inspirational Quotations. – Inspirational Stories – Kalima Quotes – Linkedin – Proverbicals

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1. A bit of cow poop ruins a pail of milk.
2. A calm ox with long horns will be respected because it might butt.
3. A fool is like a big drum that beats loud and fast but without meaning.
4. A potato grows in silence, iron rusts in silence, what do you do in silence?
5. A snake with scales counts as a fish for dinner.
6. A tiger leaves his roar at death, a man his words.
7. A tiny harpoon can kill an enormous whale.
8. After a hearty dinner, a man will say the coconut has too hard a shell to crack open.
9. After falling from a tipping ladder, it falls on you.
10. All your teeth are friends and cooperate.
11. Always be prepared, and carry your umbrella when rain is imminent.
12. An ant doesn’t always die because you stepped on it.
13. An endless source of pebbles will become a mountain and drops of water an ocean.
14. Ants will come to where there are sweet liquids.
15. Build your house high on a hill if you like a view of the sea but are afraid of tsunamis.
16. Bump a tray of water, and you will get your pants wet.
17. Clapping the fingers against the palms isn’t very loud but it is double the applause.
18. Climbing into a basket and lifting yourself will enhance your fame.
19. Desire makes a hundred exertions but repulsion, a hundred excuses.
20. Do not expect to be paid for doing anything.
21. Don’t live with people who don’t talk.
22. Don’t use an ax to embroider or a needle to chop down trees.
23. Durians are spiky, stinky and hard, and you can pulverize a cucumber with one.
24. Even the diamonds are crushed under intense pressure.
25. Even when the quiet person departs the conversation, it changes.
26. Every living thing grows as best it can.
27. Fear to spill a drop makes you shaky, and you will spill a lot.
28. Feasting brings your remaining money to the doctor.
29. Give your wife some time alone, occasionally.
30. Gluttony is stuffing oneself with candied pears, then drinking fine wine till you burst.
31. Gold rains down on rich countries and stones on ours, but we are happier.
32. Hatred is anger burrowed into one’s heart.
33. He rose to the top like spicy Kaduk oil.
34. He who has learned how to steal will discover how to hang.
35. He’s as greedy as a Dutchman getting land.
36. His enthusiasm is just like a hot chickenshit, cold and stinky in a minute.
37. If the hen lays only one egg, the whole village will argue over it.
38. If the wind isn’t blowing, the treetops wouldn’t be swaying, except in an earthquake.
39. If you are into the pickles, eat your fill.
40. If you have, share with others, if you lack, others should share with you.
41. If you plant grass, you won’t harvest rice.
42. Ignorance is a lack of relevant information, and stupidity is the refusal to look at demonstrated facts.
43. Incense is useless unless burned a little at a time.
44. It is hard to describe a harmonica’s sound when put into a food blender.
45. It is natural for coconuts to float in water and granite stones to sink.
46. Leeches are soft but are hard to detach once latched onto your skin.
47. Limes from the dry land and salt from the deep sea meet in my lunch.
48. Live with pain and work while exhausted now and live in comfort later.
49. Loud rapids indicate fast-flowing turbulent water with rocks below.
50. Men can explore the deep sea, but the hearts of women are a mystery.
51. Milk comes from cows, but the bulls get the respect.
52. Mountains don’t run away when pursued.
53. No matter how far a squirrel falls, he will hit the ground running for a tree.
54. One who owns a well will never go thirsty.
55. Only a fool burns his tent to kill a mosquito.
56. Overcoming difficulties in the beginning makes finishing easy.
57. Pat your chest as a reward and ask what more you could do to please it.
58. Please don’t hang your hat where it doesn’t belong.
59. Sorrow generates spaces in one’s heart that joy can fill.
60. Sulking makes you feel worse unless someone is near to cheer you up.
61. Teeth are all friends among each other.
62. The air, which seems so thin and unsubstantial, gives birth to storms that nothing can resist.
63. The existence of the lawless sea forecasts the presence of pirates.
64. The family bond survives many a quarrel.
65. The father teaches his son how to urinate by standing still so he can keep his clothes dry.
66. The fool wades and fishes in water where there are no crocodiles.
67. The more shoots there are in spring, the more leaves there will be in summer.
68. The more you have, the more humbly you must behave.
69. The mouth of a pot can be covered, but men’s mouths are not so easily closed.
70. The paddle is in your hand, the canoe is in the water, so let’s go!
71. The rice is cooked and can’t be used for growing more rice.
72. The shores of the world are shifting every moment.
73. The soil we stand on is where we hold up the sky and the earth down.
74. The tallest tree drops parts of its top back to its roots.
75. The turtle lays a thousand eggs in silence, but a hen lays one and brags loudly to the whole world.
76. There must be a reason why tempua birds nest on low branches.
77. There will soon be vultures where there is or is about to be a carcass.
78. They have the same black hair but different black places in their hearts.
79. Think before you leap, crawl, stand or think.
80. To offer an excuse before accusations implies an offense.
81. Too much of a good thing can kill you, like ants in sugar.
82. We must conform and trumpet with the elephants, crow with the roosters, and bleat with the goats.
83. Wear clothes that fit your station in life.
84. When elephants argue, the grass is what is injured.
85. When I see his fingernails, I’m glad he is wearing shoes.
86. Where shall I pour the sauce of life if not upon my son?
87. Who is unwilling to die is afraid to live.
88. Women and melons are best when they are ripe.
89. You are lost if you are too shy to ask where you are.
90. You can bring back your boat that went past the dock, but words past your lips have entered the world forever.
91. You can pay back borrowed gold but are forever in debt to those who made the loan.
92. You live because of natural processes and die because of natural processes.
93. You may freely give a part of a calf, but then the whole calf is requested.
94. You must break a hefty load into suitable parts.
95. You must break the trunk to get the sago.
96. Your body pays for a slip of the foot, but your reputation for a slip of the tongue.

Peruvian Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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– Inspirational Stories – Inspirational Web – Peruvian Proverbs – Proverbicals – World Proverbs
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1. A continuous drip of water will polish a hard stone and disolve a soft one.
2. A lawyer paid by a rich man is a whip to a poor man.
3. Envy for a friend’s success is like eating a sour pumpkin.
4. Fortune and olives are similar; sometimes you have plenty, and other times you have none.
5. Gold, when beaten with a smooth hammer, will shine forever.
6. I learn what others know when I listen, but I discover what I don’t know when I speak.
7. In daily life, the son is scornful of his father’s ways, but in business, the father is scornful of his son’s mistakes.
8. It is better to prevent problems, like disease, than to cure them.
9. Love makes copper into gold, poverty into contentment, and tears into pearls.
10. Never touch a sick bird because he is acting sick for a reason.
11. Only he who carries a cross knows how heavy it is.
12. Sitting quietly with a distant view, you may experience tranquility
13. Take care of your own problems first before solving other people’s problems.
14. The child weeps to foster its own good and the geriatric to sooth his ills.
15. Walk with easy steps, and you can go a long way.
16. When on a long journey, even loose slippers grow tight.
17. You go the market for a wool blanket but come home shorn of money.
18. You won’t catch trout without getting your feet wet in the stream.
19. Youth is joyful without wine, but old age is wine without increasing joy.

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The optimistic hopes by everyone that the Covid pandemic is coming to an end keep getting dashed by reality. If from the beginning the statements had been “this is going to be a long haul, and you better do everything you can to adapt to the problem,” we wouldn’t be having so much trouble.

Angolan Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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– British Library – ONE – Proverbicals – Proverbs and Co – Sarcastic Truth – Special Dictionary – World Proverbs

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1. A bird will shun a beautiful poisonous worm, like humans shun snakes.
2. A crocodile is only strong in its natural element, water.
3. A monkey doesn’t look at its tail when it grabs a branch.
4. A mouse doesn’t argue with a lion, nor the lion with a mouse.
5. A rat is the king of his kingdom when he is in his hole.
6. A scolding woman has herself to blame when her man avoids her.
7. A visitor to Angola who drinks Bengo River water will never want to leave.
8. An army of ants will drive a herd of elephants away from food.
9. Appearances are designed to deceive and are nearly always successful.
10. Do not despise the planted nuts; that will one day be your family’s fortune.
11. Don’t call the forest that gives you everything you need a jungle wilderness.
12. Don’t expect kindness from a person of pleasant and agreeable appearance, but from an exacting driver of hard bargains.
13. Early corn is most succulent, as is your firstborn child.
14. Good use of wealth ensures health, makes happiness available and exposes you to the wisdom that will help secure those things.
15. He who goes to our holy place with evil in his heart may suffer a deadly accident at every step.
16. If one urinates in their sleep, they must make preparations.
17. If you must go quickly, go alone, but go with a crowd if you want to go safely.
18. In times of significant events, we ignore the minor ones.
19. It is a waste of time to argue with someone who has made up their mind.
20. It is the destiny of donkeys to carry heavy burdens.
21. Labor has agreed upon reward, but the successful voyage of a ship is risky.
22. Neither a squirrel nor a rat contest the ground with an elephant’s foot.
23. Neither pain nor pleasure endures for long.
24. Partnerships on goals make both of our fortunes possible.
25. Peace costs little, and it is worth the expense.
26. People tend to gather around the friendliest talkative person.
27. Poverty makes one a slave to routine grubbing for food.
28. Take chances with every opportunity and follow what functions best.
29. The body is pleasured with soothing ongoing moments, but the heart releases pleasure with sudden warm flashes.
30. The guest often wants a glass of water, but the host is ashamed to offer so small a treat.
31. The human skin is the visible covering of the person within.
32. The journey into one’s deeper soul begins in old age.
33. The laws of social propinquity work wonders.
34. The one who hits another with a stone soon forgets the incident, but the one who is hit remembers it forever.
35. The unexplored road beckons a young man to travel.
36. The voyage’s success is what matters, and the crew’s lives are measured by the money we pay them.
37. The witch doctor practices at home, then he seeks sick people.
38. There is no hurry when you are in a flow with your work.
39. There is shade enough in the jungle for all the elephants.
40. Thinking expands the thinker’s prospects for success.
41. To be sure your friend is a good friend you must share many experiences.
42. What the eyes see that another owns causes envy.
43. When the people are hungry, the king is at risk too.
44. When we are starving, a single spoon of soup has more value than a pot of soup when there is abundance.
45. Where water is scarce, we must use it carefully and sparingly.
46. With labor comes life-improving income.
47. Women are the source of life and must be respected for that quality.
48. You cannot live without water, even if it killed your child.
49. You cannot use filthy water to wash your clothes.

Uzbeki Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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– Become Wiser – Linguistlist – World Proverbs

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1. A capricious man will leave a card game without a shirt.
2. A crooked tree will never straighten its crook.
3. A friend is the one who comes when you need help.
4. A good person leaves a garden, but a bad one leaves a mess.
5. A head that never knows pain is not a human head.
6. A man with strong muscles can move another man, but a man with the right thoughts can move billions of them.
7. A person who has not enjoyed little things will not appreciate great ones.
8. A pile of money is not a worthy goal, and lacking a pile is not a sign of defeat.
9. A word said in anger is a shot fired.
10. Accept what’s on your shoulders because that’s your life’s load.
11. All those things you save today may become useful tomorrow.
12. An observant person blames himself for mistakes, but a foolish one blames anyone else, even the setting sun.
13. Anger is your worst enemy, and a calm review of the problem is your best friend.
14. As a child grows into adulthood, his wisdom must grow from exercising his own free will.
15. Birds have specialized beaks for certain foods, so we may catch them by making a trap for their beak.
16. Choose your companions for the vacation, not the destination.
17. Divide the amount of time you speak by the number of people present.
18. Do not grip things too tightly that are going to go away.
19. Do not start your trip until your equipment is ready and your baggage double-checked.
20. Don’t assume the freeways are for you if you ride a donkey.
21. Every man says he will keep his word; an honest one always will.
22. Everyone is self-centered at the center of their Universe.
23. First, decide what you want to say, then let your mouth do the talking.
24. From the cradle to the grave, seek the knowledge that will be most helpful for your success and contentment.
25. Getting knowledge is like creating a beautiful carpet with a needle and thread.
26. Happiness is not having money; it’s having a little more money than your friends.
27. He who has identified his goal and is pushing toward it is happy.
28. He who possesses the right knowledge, facts, and forethought owns the world.
29. I ran down the mountain from the falling snow, with the lower altitude turning the freezing snow into a cold rain.
30. If you commit a crime, make it a big one where you will be hanging high if caught.
31. If you don’t have much money, you can spend your time with friends.
32. If you don’t like the looks of your face, don’t look in mirrors.
33. If you plant a tree in the morning, don’t expect shade at noon.
34. If you seek health, eat modestly; if you want honors, speak modestly.
35. It will show in your face and actions when you hide your disgrace.
36. It’s better to skip a meal than eat bad food.
37. It’s difficult to deceive your eyes, but a few words can deceive your ears.
38. It’s the bird’s choice how it builds and lives in its nest.
39. Other people may feel some of your emotional pain, but they do not experience any of your body’s pain.
40. Physical labor is good for the appetite, but a lazy man’s favorite labor is eating.
41. Rather than wish ill on someone else, work for a kinder relationship with yourself.
42. Samarkand is shocking to see for its architectural beauty.
43. Some things can’t be done with labor but can be done with thought.
44. The dog knows that our home begins at the fence, so that is where he begins barking at strangers.
45. The generous person is pleasing to everyone and Allah.
46. The greatest wealth of a child is his father and mother.
47. Those who speak little may know a lot or nothing, and it isn’t until someone speaks that we have a clue to what he knows.
48. We are told to get knowledge, but that’s wrong; we must get the right knowledge.
49. When a father’s work is done, the result is a wonderful man.
50. Where there is food, there will be others to eat it, including us.
51. Your attention is the ultimate point of your life, and you should guard it more than gold.
52. Your tongue is for friend or enemy, so train it well.

Saudi Arabian Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

Primary sources of these proverbs are from the web. They have been filtered through Grammarly and rewritten for easier application to the Aphor Game which is designed for the creation of useful new ideas.
– Arabic Online – Aramco World – Destination – Industry Arabic – Mezzofanti Guild – Proverbicals – Tandem

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1. A bite from a lion is a wound healing; a glance of envy forecasts injuries coming.
2. A cloud over the desert is a promise, but rain is the realized dream.
3. A donkey can go to Mecca but won’t return a hajji.
4. A double-crossing friend knows best what will harm you.
5. A friend will advise you what’s in his interest, not yours.
6. A good deed shrinks when it is revealed.
7. A good man rejoices when others succeed in good actions.
8. A grateful dog is more emotionally helpful than a good employee.
9. A man of modest intellect but clear vision can manage his affairs better than a wise man can counsel him.
10. A man who constantly worries about what he is putting into his belly is worth less than what comes out of it.
11. A man’s endeavors are identical to his depth of vision.
12. A man’s house is his castle, but it’s his wife’s mosque.
13. A person who can do nothing must confess he is helpless and let things take their course.
14. A person who predicts the future is lying, even if he turns out to be right.
15. A person’s excess in one thing is paid for with a shortage of another.
16. A servant with two masters must lie to one of them.
17. Ambitious men are careful with heartwarming words and envious of status.
18. Anger begins with failure, develops with insanity, and ends in regret.
19. Ask a man experienced with the problem rather than one who only knows what the author of a book he read knows.
20. Ask the advice of a man ignorant of the relevant facts, and he will think of you as an enemy.
21. Attend funerals to see old friends, but avoid weddings to avoid getting involved in complicated relationships.
22. Avoid being in dangerous places where random events happen.
23. Be generous with generous people and become friends, but be generous with a stingy person, and you will be quietly robbed.
24. Be like a mountain when the wind blows, unmoved.
25. Bravery without foresight is reckless and often catastrophic.
26. Do many good little things that people barely notice.
27. Don’t challenge nature where the actions are invariant.
28. Don’t think a lion is smiling at you when you see his teeth.
29. Everything has flaws that need fixing.
30. Evil people recognize one another by the subtle covering of their evil flaws.
31. Examine if what is said corresponds with historical trends.
32. Extreme humbleness summons humiliation.
33. Fate loves the foresighted man who seems to be doing strange things.
34. Feminine beauty only exists in men’s minds.
35. Good actions never cancel out the bad ones, but bad ones no longer appear if the stimulus is reacted to with good actions.
36. Good deeds completed push bad ones into oblivion.
37. Have a controversial opinion of some public problem, so you will have something to discuss at parties.
38. Have your home near running water that will never go dry.
39. He is a pot that’s found a wife that’s his perfect lid.
40. He who desires everything will lose everything.
41. He who does not punish vilification is encouraging more of it.
42. He who lacks kindness will be unable to cultivate grace.
43. He who lies about things he knows something about will lie about you whom he knows.
44. He who steals an egg will steal anything.
45. He who understands the world’s ways is sad with it but happy he is within its community.
46. He will soon be shunned by his friend if he narrates his friend’s mistakes.
47. I don’t believe you are right because the crowd approves.
48. If a man believes in a green stone, that stone will serve him.
49. If you are not sure what way you are going, look back to landmarks and then project forward.
50. If you don’t know the answer to something, say beans.
51. If you have never seen evil in others, look closely at some of your misdeeds.
52. If you walk through a field of onions, you will smell like an onion.
53. If you’re unable to give a reward, make sure to provide a gracious thank you.
54. In the desert of life, a wise person is a member of a group for support, as an individual alone has no help.
55. In the presence of the inevitable, a physician is helpless.
56. It is easier not to sin than to pay a penalty that may be large.
57. It is helpful for people to know the truth so they may guide their actions toward their best prospects.
58. Keeping a secret is a commitment.
59. Know every group’s special identity markers, actions, and gurus.
60. Lies are designed to fit the current situation, truth to last forever.
61. Like all other personal actions, compassion given to others returns to the giver.
62. Live in your community like brothers, but always do business like strangers.
63. Love sees some things clearly, and hate other things, but jealousy sees everything and is poised to act.
64. Make a clear separation between you and every form of dirtiness.
65. Man will have nothing if he strives for nothing.
66. Manhood is a way of behaving, not of size.
67. Men are stuck in their family’s beliefs, permanently bent to new ones, or flexible.
68. Men with blind eyes understand the world better than those with hearts that are closed.
69. Mistrust your business deals before you trust them, and then verify the actions before committing to them.
70. Not to use trickery is essential, but choosing to do that is also trickery.
71. Nothing ruins truth like stretching it to the breaking point.
72. Observe what proper appearance is for your role, and dress that way.
73. One must remember that living requires eating and not wasting resources on fancy foods.
74. Our life and all our goods are borrowed from nature’s existence.
75. People acquire things like knowledge by seeking to obtain them.
76. People help those people who help them.
77. Planning for the future is half of living; the other half is already gone.
78. Public walls are the newspapers of fools.
79. Put your things into proper places, and they will put you into your place.
80. Remember your lover’s adorable qualities, and forget their mistakes.
81. Send wise, self-motivated men on difficult tasks but don’t advise them on accomplishing what needs to be done.
82. Send your son to the marketplace to see what and whom he discovers that interests him.
83. Silence is the only answer to give stupid people.
84. Some people don’t realize I would prefer to talk to a stone wall.
85. Stinginess shrinks a man’s soul and shrinks those around him.
86. Stupid people might want to help you but don’t know what to do and do the wrong things.
87. The benefits you get from being a member of society become debts you owe to that society.
88. The best and the worst of human deeds come from the learned men.
89. The best answers will come from those people who are intelligent, objective, resolute, and not angry.
90. The creation of good habits becomes a sixth sense that dominates the responses to the other sense’s stimulations.
91. The dearest people are those who have cultivated the best characters.
92. The dreams of a cat must be full of fat mice.
93. The envious are self-created beings who have generated painful meanings in their otherwise meaningless lives.
94. The finest acts of human generosity are those which are done automatically because they come from a cultivated character.
95. The fruit of silence is tranquility, but it easily slips into boredom.
96. The greatest tranquility is when we desire nothing, which is identical to being dead.
97. The hasty hare and the tardy tortoise ride the same ferry.
98. The ink of a scholar’s thoughts lives for centuries, but a martyr’s blood flows out in a few minutes.
99. The love of money, fame, and learning rarely meet in one person.
100. The mother of a murderer has trouble sleeping.
101. The only things more potent than the truth are natural phenomena.
102. The purest people are the ones who have cultivated the best manners as it is the external manifestation of producing internal character.
103. The various types of sane and insane personalities are innumerable.
104. The way to the sea is a free ride on its tributaries’ flow; it’s coming home that requires more effort.
105. The young goose is a good swimmer, and a great prince manifests his qualities when young.
106. There are happy men who don’t know it and others who search for happiness and can’t find it.
107. There is always something to learn from doing experiments on people.
108. There will be no more shock when the reason for a person’s actions is revealed, and everyone will forget the event.
109. Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will catch a fish.
110. Time is the ultimate master even of those who have no master.
111. To be a compassionate doctor requires once having been very sick.
112. To become wise practice, be silent, and listen, remember, grow older, and study human cause and effect.
113. To keep a secret to yourself or to others requires commitment and vigilance.
114. To threaten a brave man with death is like promising a duck you are going to throw him into a lake.
115. War is a disaster for the winners and losers, soldiers and civilians.
116. Watch those who flatter others, as they will also condemn those formerly flattered people.
117. What is memorized quickly is soon forgotten.
118. What may be a firestorm today may be easily foreseen and avoided, and it will soon be ashes, and you can more than recover the losses.
119. What wise men suggest is more useful than the convictions of fools.
120. What’s in the well is what the bucket will bring up.
121. When a door doesn’t open when you knock, you better look into your reputation.
122. When what you want doesn’t happen, enjoy what does happen as your original goal.
123. When you attempt to do two things at the same time, both will be done poorly.
124. When you do not speak out a great thought, you alone possess its usefulness.
125. When your son grows up, cease being a father and become his uncle.
126. Whoever doesn’t know he is dealing with an eagle should try to grill it.
127. Wishing does not make a poor man rich, but neither does prayer.
128. With caution and foresight, you may cease and realize your opportunities.
129. Words from the heart reach other hearts, but words from the mouth never get past the ears.
130. You can always find good aspects of the misfortunes that fall upon you, but you must look for them.
131. You fight the most useful holy war in your quiet meditations.
132. You know a man’s character by the resolve in his words and sweat of his brow to make those words realized.
133. You may forget with whom and why you laughed, but you will not forget why and with whom you wept.
134. You won’t gain knowledge by drinking ink, but you will learn that it will make you sick.
135. Youth is an illness that is sometimes cured by surviving a couple of decades.

Moroccan Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

Primary sources of these proverbs are from the web. They have been filtered through Grammarly and rewritten for easier application to the Aphor Game which is designed for the creation of useful new ideas.

– Arabic Essay – Inspirational Stories – Moroccan Food – Morocco Guide – Proverbicals – Roaming Camels – Special Dictionary

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1. A devil takes a world and makes factions, but a saint makes communities.
2. A great speech defining a great goal and an enthusiastic beginning will get many things done.
3. A mistake known and stated is more valuable than an unrevealed truth.
4. A polite tongue can suckle a lioness’s breast.
5. A proper pace to fit the situation, from the beginning, allows haste to go to the Devil at the end.
6. A simple agreement is a form of debt as binding as a legal contract for a virtuous man.
7. A smartphone is the organized wisdom of the world in your pocket.
8. A warm and lasting relationship is more pleasing than a hot one that’s soon a distant memory.
9. An abundance of money suddenly available to a man is a challenge but a disaster for a fool.
10. Ask a few people who had your present problem and solved it.
11. Avoid people who refuse to listen to testable facts presented clearly in good faith.
12. Be careful of the company you keep; it is with them that you will develop habits that will be with you forever.
13. Beauty is a zone of organized patterns with contrasting points.
14. Buy a tiny house when young, pay it off quickly, and you will never worry about rent.
15. Buy and fully own a piece of property, live on it, improve it whenever possible, and never pay rent or loans.
16. Choose to do as your friends do, or find new ones with whom you can associate wholeheartedly.
17. Choose to understand failures and take the actions that avoid them.
18. Choose your country, city, neighborhood, and neighbors before buying a house.
19. Compete with honest people with similar interests but don’t envy their success.
20. Evening friends are for social bonding, but all-day associates are where you earn your living.
21. Everyone is trying to improve their situation.
22. Everyone needs a friend, and the most reliable friend is a dog.
23. He who does not treat you with respect is insulting you.
24. He who is hunting for evil will find it hiding behind symbols of idealized goodness.
25. He who preys on the poor displays contempt for their whole being.
26. He who sweet-talks things to make you feel good and smile leads you away from reality and truth.
27. He who tries to help you laugh seeks to expose a part of reality as it behaves.
28. He who wakes up early brings in gold before sunset.
29. He who wasn’t invited to the event until the last moment was being invited to make an excuse to stay away.
30. If the judge is against you, withdraw the complaint.
31. If you are afraid of someone, they have the power to direct your every action.
32. If you choose to beg, beg for big things from wealthy people who can give you what you need.
33. If you pretend to put a rope around your neck, you should see who will pull it.
34. In physical action, there is the blessing of the universe, but in hopes and dreams, without visible action, everything ignores you.
35. It is more disgraceful to live wounded by words than a sword.
36. It is more gratifying to be envied than pitied.
37. Love truth, respect its results and expose lies and the fake pleasures they impose on people.
38. Never pour out your old water until you are sure your new water is plentiful and tastes good.
39. No lamb was born with its wool.
40. One day of life may be as sweet as honey, the next as sour as rhubarb stalks.
41. Orphans are forced into jobs that no one will do for money.
42. People avoid reality and truth so that they can have unlimited pleasure.
43. People will listen to a man who gives the impression of success and money, and vice versa.
44. People who are not saddened at Romeo and Juliet aren’t bothered by Hamlet’s demise either.
45. People who spend money they don’t have, go into debt for their entire lives and lose the value of most of their productive labor.
46. Performing many little good deeds puts you into better humor toward humanity.
47. Poorly laid plans fail but may have succeeded with a couple of good advisors to spot the weaknesses.
48. Put all the troubles into a net, and things will separate, and each can be studied more easily.
49. Show him how, show him a second time, then go home.
50. Sometimes we learn through pain, other times through sorrow, joy, laughter, and books.
51. Sow wheat and never thorns, and everyone will love you, even the Devil.
52. Strike a match above a sea of options, and all of the workers will be confused and drift away.
53. Study and become skillful in different situations at warm greetings, friendly conversations, and warm departures.
54. Support your friends in public and critique them in private.
55. The ancients covered many things, but we have many new tools and methods that opened new possibilities.
56. The court says to the dog who lives with the royal family, “My Lord Rover.”
57. The cue to proceed is brief in the queue of the patient men.
58. The enemy of my enemy is distracting my enemy from me.
59. The mind is free to think, and those thoughts that come from within have a powerful influence over one’s actions.
60. The same ultimate void awaits us all, and it is here and now that our world and our successes are to be found.
61. The threat of prison may scare people into being legally obedient, but it doesn’t make them generous.
62. The visitor to a home is visiting a king’s castle.
63. The weight of a man’s burden is felt only by him.
64. Think about future consequences before actions that may be permanent.
65. Think about your future options before making decisions.
66. Time heals all wounds, and wounds all heels.
67. To be happy, join your neighbors in their lifestyle or move to a neighborhood where you can.
68. We only get things we want by trading away stuff we have, and sometimes, all we have is a promise to pay.
69. When encountering a stranger, assume that God’s nobility resides within them.
70. With a new project, start with easy tasks.
71. Your most productive struggles are often with yourself.

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The media and pundits are trying to stay positive and keep telling us we are getting tired of the Covid and Omicron. The economy is picking up even though a couple of million people haven’t gone back to work yet. There are help wanted posters with bonus offers on many business storefronts. The world incidence rate of infections is at an all-time high, and the large number of milder Omicron cases are finally showing up in slower onset of deaths, but the numbers are bigger.

I have been writing, actually rewriting, proverbs all day for months, and consider this routine couple of hours updating the Covid chart as relaxation. It is routine and boring but kind of interesting watching it grow.