Covid Logarithmic chart 2022-01-25

25 Tuesday Jan 2022

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These charts are showing a steep rise in Covid cases this last two months, but not much increase in deaths yet. The deaths usually lag about five weeks behind the observed infection, but fortunately, those countries where the Omicron hit first haven’t had as serious a death rate. There is a possible reason for the high infection rate and the low death rate in the fact that the later mutations like Delta and Omicron added more components to the outside of their basic molecule which slowed the speed of the disease development to where the victim’s body could cope more effectively.

A second thing that seems to have happened is that because of the high infection rate and low observed intensity of symptoms many people had the disease and didn’t know it. Omicron was very mild for most people, and those people continued their daily routine and spread the disease widely. That means that the whole community of people had the Omicron and the victims are immunized to catch all of the earlier forms of the COVID.

If that supposition is the operating factor it would mean the Covid epidemic would end this summer. Many people would catch the disease in its mild form and confer immunity to others.

Spanish proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

24 Monday Jan 2022

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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.

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A bad beginning forecasts a bad ending.
A baptized Basque with two mules needs nothing more.
A beautiful young woman is to an old man a multitude of sorrows.
A bird is known by its song, and a man by his thoughts.
A change of task is as good as rest.
A cheerful wife will spice up your life.
A comfortable life sets a good example for those seeking virtue.
A comfortable life smooths wrinkles away.
A day without any bread is a weary day.
A dog won’t come close enough to bite you if you have a long stick.
A faint-hearted man without money rarely wins a wonderful lady.
A friend in deed is a friend indeed.
A goat heads toward the mountain as its home.
A guest in your kitchen is a friendly thief.
A hunter moves from one shadow to another.
A law is only fair if it is applied fairly.
A mother treats a child better than a monastery full of holy men.
A rolling stone rubs off its moss.
A rose to be enjoyed must be sniffed briefly.
A saint without a statue gets few candles.
A secret between you and God is safe, but it is soon known to everyone when another person knows it.
A single repeatable disproof ruins a thousand proofs of a theory.
A soft answer will soothe an angry accusation.
A strong attack on a weak point wins a battle.
A tree that grew twisted for a year can never be straightened.
A wise man changes his mind by changing facts, but a fool’s mind is fixed.
A woman’s advice must be taken seriously.
A woman’s belly can produce many heirs.
A woman’s tears move from her soul to yours.
A word and a thrown stone can not be recalled.
Absence makes the heart fantasize nonexistent perfections.
Accept a gift as good luck, and be thankful for the bounty.
Actions get things done, but words may confuse the effort to take action.
Acts are of love, and good reasons are abstractions like numbers.
Advise no one to go to war or marry, even if they ask.
After a vice is tolerated, a flood of vice follows.
After breakfast, work, after lunch, rest a while; after supper, walk a mile.
All roads go somewhere.
All things that we choose to do are fun to do.
An apple a day covers your need for vitamins.
An empty stomach will listen to no one but itself.
An imitation is a sincere form of flattery, but it also steals from your soul.
An invisible fire is revealed by its smoke.
Anger exposes an individual’s insanity to the world.
Anger or hate prevents reasonable thought and actions.
Appetite grows with the sight and smell of good food.
As soon as one problem goes out the window, another arrives at the door.
Ask for too much, so after the complications, you get enough.
At 20, a man is a peacock, 30 a lion, 40 a camel, 50 a serpent, 60 a dog, 70 an ape, 80 an old man.
At the end of the game, we will discover who won.
At the sight of troubled waters, fishermen get busy.
Avoid a friend who smothers you with attention and bites at your liver.
Bad behavior dirties your reputation more than shit.
Bad news flies at the speed of light, and the good news is ignored like a rain-soaked newspaper.
Beads about the neck may be placed to conceal a devil in the heart.
Beauty and chastity are always threatened with money and fame.
Beauty draws more men than oxen.
Become invisible when people nearby are doing disgraceful things.
Beggars have the choice to beg or starve.
Better a positive hope than a negative realization.
Better punctual than a moment too late.
Better to ask a child the way than to go astray.
Better to keep and love what you have than grope into the unknowable.
Better to miss a hundred feasts than supporting a hundred doctors.
Better to visit hell early in your life than live there from then on.
Better walk a mile to the bridge than drown wading in the river.
Between a yes and no of some women, there isn’t anything.
Between two Saturdays, many things happen.
Birth counts for something, but good breeding is more useful.
Blood can boil invisibly and without a fire.
Brainpower, if properly applied, wins over simple muscle power.
Buy from desperate people, and sell to newlyweds with good credit.
Cheap things cost more than good things.
Cheating me with the price is impossible because I choose what I pay.
Chins without good character behind them deserve no honor.
Communism is a cow to many that is milked by everyone and fed by no one.
Compare your troubles with anyone’s, and you will stay with your own.
Courtesy sometimes requires courage.
Cowards die many times and live to die of old age.
Curiosity about a squirrel in a tree killed the cat that had eaten many curious mice.
Dead men no longer appreciate their former friends.
Death is a friendly companion that can visit with you anytime and anywhere.
Debts are like children; they grow bigger and ask for more.
Desperately sick people will tolerate desperate treatments.
Desperation is the pain and mistress of the impossible.
Different strokes for people are like music and have patterns and rhythm.
Dine with arrogance, sleep with discomfort.
Discretion is the part of courage that is hidden from friend and foe.
Discretion means hiding private things you don’t want others to see.
Do not discard a complex thing when only a particular part is faulty.
Do not mention my grief, for when mine is mentioned; you will acquire grief.
Do promptly and well those things that need doing.
Do what needs doing, and adapt immediately to the consequences when it’s done.
Doing good with frequent tiny kind acts grows the human portions of your character.
Don’t fuss if people call you ordinary, because ordinary is a very fine human being.
Don’t judge the quality of a book by its cover, but by a random paragraph within.
Don’t leave for tomorrow anything you can finish today.
Don’t leave the reliable road unless you have extra time to explore a new route.
Don’t marry a girl with more than a few ex-boyfriends.
Don’t refuse a drumstick to the person who gave you the chicken.
Don’t sell a bearskin rug before you have the bear.
Don’t talk too much, because a group always knows more than you.
Don’t worry about a spot that can be scraped off and cleaned with a drop of water.
Drink only things known to be safe, and don’t sign anything without reading it.
Duty requires us to do some things, but love motivates us to do them perfectly.
Each of us knows what is bothering us.
Each of us must respond properly to our responsibilities.
Each of us to our own problems with God taking care of us all.
Each one of us knows where our shoe pinches.
Early flowers are all blooming and have no seed.
Early to rise and plow deep, and you will have corn to sell and eat.
Earn your living doing things you know how to do better than amateurs.
Eat modestly, and you will avoid most diseases.
Eat, drink and be merry, for soon we die forever and don’t get another opportunity.
Eavesdroppers hear distorted gossip about what they have done.
Eggs are naturally broken by chicks’ beaks and artificially by cooks’ hands.
Elm trees are beautiful but rarely bear fruit.
Envy is high praise, especially when the reason for it is copied.
Even the best writers rewrite and rewrite.
Every atom in the Universe is in exactly the right place.
Every bird’s favorite nest is her own.
Every cask smells of the wine it once contained.
Every dog has its day, and with a short memory, today is the day.
Every fool is pleased with himself, and every wise man isn’t. So who is the bigger fool?
Every man loves the things he loves.
Every scribe makes errors, sometimes big errors.
Everybody’s a fool because nobody’s perfect.
Everyone sees everything from where they are located in time, space, and social reality.
Everyone thinks they know what they can do and what they can’t.
Everyone who lives by hope, except priests, will suffer from hunger if they live long enough.
Everything has its precursors, which also have their precursors.
Everything must be paid for!
Evil people always suspect the worst behavior of others and beat them to it.
Experience is a good teacher for muscle memory and primes forethought too.
Eyes won’t see what the mind refuses to see.
Fawning fools ruin beautiful women and horses.
Fear and love are found together at the airport terminal.
Flattery soothes anxieties, and harsh truth generates real anxieties and dislike of the truth-teller.
Fools happily play where people with forethought carefully avoid.
For a chaste woman, a night with God is good enough.
For a hungry person, hard bread is wonderful.
For a stormy night, a bottle of wine converts a hovel into a haven.
Friendless in daily life brings a solitary funeral.
Friendly words improve social relationships and cheer everybody’s day.
Friends are those who want to help us accomplish what we are trying to achieve.
From a fallen tree, everybody’s gathering firewood.
From scraps of leather, you can create useful things.
From the void, nothing can come but an equal and opposite void.
Give something and take something and everybody’s better for it.
Give your ears to your kind friends’ hearts.
Giving alms lightens the sorrow for a few minutes.
God comes to visit you without ringing a bell.
God delays answering your prayers but never forgets.
God helps those most who get up early and get to work.
God helps those who start promptly.
God is a good worker, but he needs help.
God sends cold weather in winter and hot weather in summer.
Great minds think!
Guests always look good going down the road.
Guilt is to be avoided because it makes you feel that what you did was bad.
Habits that we spin are like spider webs, but they grow into woven steel cables.
Half a loaf of bread is salvation for a starving person.
Half a truth is a whole truth compounded with a dozen lies.
Happiness is never perfect because we need something to strive for to make it perfect.
Happiness is temporarily touching the goal, but contentment is holding it peacefully.
Have patience, and the mulberry leaf will become a silk bole.
He that chastens one crime chastens twenty unresolved crimes.
He that eats until he vomits must vomit until he’s finished with the feast.
He that wants a beautiful wife should choose the tastiest item at the Sunday picnic.
He that wants the best apple must climb the apple tree.
He to whom God gives no sons, Satan gives nephews.
He who abandons his people will be abandoned by God.
He who chooses to deal with a blockhead needs his brains examined.
He who divides and waits gets the smallest portion.
He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with those feathers when he’s old.
He who fights and wins lives to fight another day if he chooses.
He who goes to law to save a sheep will lose a cow.
He who has all the benefits of life must fight to retain them.
He who has lost faith in life has nothing more to lose.
He who helps everyone isn’t helping me.
He who hires the piper calls the tunes.
He who inherits a castle on a hill must climb it often.
He who is afraid of something gives it the power to control his every move.
He who is filled with excuses is hiding many things.
He who is proud of his sins compounds his evil qualities.
He who is successfully living is successful enough.
He who knows nothing is as blind as one who refuses to see reality.
He who lives a long life must endure seeing misery.
He who makes excuses for thieves is a thief.
He who never has enough never enjoys anything.
He who peeps through a window may be bothered by what he sees.
He who plants lettuce may not get to eat the salad.
He who receives a gift sells some of his liberty.
He who shelters under the wrong tree may get twice as wet.
He who sows stickers must wear hard-soled shoes.
He who starts with a denial confesses involvement.
He who talks a mule’s language becomes one himself.
He who walks a lot, and talks to a lot of people, will know a lot.
He who wants to bring home the riches of India must bring them within himself.
He who wishes to feel rich should not collect money but reduce his desires.
He’s always right who believes he’s always wrong.
Health without wealth is weak.
Hell is living in a world of ungrateful people.
Hell is loaded with unfulfilled good intentions.
Her left-hand doesn’t cooperate with her right hand.
Her rich father’s dowry will make his ugly daughter attractive.
Here’s to eating, drinking, and laughing after our dying world.
Hidden joy was soon to be seen in our just snuffed candle.
His barking is driven by his fear.
Home is where I’m always headed.
Home is where my heart thrives.
Honesty and money must live together in your pocket.
Honesty is a policy people praise while pocketing a clerk’s mistake.
Honor buys nothing more than ready cash will.
Hope and work for the good, prepare and fight the bad.
Hope deferred too long creates misery and starvation.
Hope is okay for breakfast but makes a hungry supper.
How horrible a life of doing nothing all day and sleeping on it.
How pleasant to watch and smell the rain from a comfortable window.
However cloudless the sky bring your raincoat when the TV says rain.
However early you rise, you can’t make the sunrise sooner.
Human beings are capable of learning from others’ mistakes but usually don’t.
Hunger drives the wolves to eat your dog.
Hunger is a terrifying motivation when starving.
Hunger promotes keeping the kitchen well stocked.
Hunger sharpens your wit and dulls your inhibitions.
I always search for the good in the bad, and sometimes for the bad in the good.
I dance to whatever tune that’s in the air.
I don’t care what people think or say when I get what I want.
I like to think they are honest, but my new coat is gone.
I prefer a donkey that cooperates to a horse that doesn’t.
I regretted when I spoke poorly, but I regret my polite silence more often.
I wept like other babies, but now I understand why I should.
Idiots can tell you where the toilets are located.
If a person leaves his chair without a marker, it’s open.
If a second doctor visits a sick man, the sexton polishes the bells.
If hopes were horses, then beggars would be begging from horseback.
If I die, you are forgiven, but we will rebalance our affairs if I recover.
If I live, we will look into it.
If it’s late and you have no options, go home and sleep.
If no poor people came to market, the poor stuff couldn’t be sold.
If someone doesn’t ask for advice, they don’t want advice.
If the devil is going to disguise himself, I must defend myself with a disguise.
If the doctor is recommending fasting, it is bad for the priest.
If the sky is falling, pick up the useful pieces.
If there is no remedy, adapt and enjoy what you can.
If there is still doubt, don’t accuse.
If you are not good to yourself, then be good to others to develop the habit.
If you can’t bite, don’t buy almonds.
If you cannot be cautious and chaste, then be very careful.
If you have a fever, wash your head and go to bed.
If you have a full moon, it’s easy to ignore the stars.
If you have a job to do, do a good job.
If you have any forethought, don’t throw stones at anyone.
If you live with wolves, you will learn to howl or get eaten.
If you need to watch the event without involvement, keep very quiet.
If you own a dog, you also own fleas.
If you plan to live a long healthy life, do as the elderly do.
If you seek good advice, ask an old man with specific experience.
If you want immediate service, you must serve yourself.
If you want to be respected, treat others with respect.
If you want to discover the worth of other people’s money, ask them for some.
If you want to marry comfortably, marry your equal.
If your enemy admits defeat, help him, but if he doesn’t, kill him.
If your first try doesn’t work, consider the options.
If your wife tells you to jump off a cliff, hold hands.
In big rivers, there are big fish, but some are big enough to pull you in and drown.
In it’s a choice between bad company and loneliness, a little of the former a lot of the latter.
In situations that are bad for everyone, friends help each other.
In the absence of a breakfast of bread and butter, eat what you can.
In the end, a fool sometimes does what those with forethought did at the beginning.
In the face of love and death, courage is helpful if available.
It is a better death for some men than their public humiliation.
It is a poor young mouse that hasn’t found alternate holes to hide.
It is essential to achieve success, to do things in their natural order.
It is impossible to say or do anything that everyone likes.
It isn’t necessary to get upset over trivial things.
It isn’t necessary to have two witnesses and a notary between brothers.
It needs moments of quiet time to think about important things.
It’s a rare pig that doesn’t get eaten.
It’s an improvement in your relationship with someone to give them a little gift.
It’s never too late to learn, but it may be too late to act on what you know.
It’s often six of one or a dozen and a half of the other.
Lack of bread, when prolonged, causes people to die.
Leave a jest where it will please your guest.
Like water for hot chocolate in Mexico, that’s fine instead of milk.
Love can work miracles, but sometimes it doesn’t.
Love is like the ocean that is always there with its ever-changing moods.
May every person be like a ship’s mast holding up its sails among the others.
Men like goats leap over the hedge where it is lowest.
Money flys away like a bird that has been trapped in a fool’s pocket.
More haste makes more mistakes.
More than enough is far and away too much.
Never attribute to malice and forethought what was clearly thoughtless stupidity.
Never forget to ask them to recount what they think you said or did.
Never spend any money on anything except necessities when you owe borrowed money.
No bees, no honey; no workee, no eatee.
No offense should be taken when the event was an accident.
Nobody will give you rocks for free if they must work to get them to you.
Nothing is so good that it can’t be improved.
One can know too much when excess facts confuse and inhibit ongoing work.
One good forethought is worth many good afterthoughts.
One who owns a house near a good tree will benefit from it for the rest of their life.
One who reads, walks, and talks to lots of people soon knows a lot.
Out of debt is out of slavery and into freedom.
People who violate social customs recognize those others who radiate those subtle indicators.
Please don’t call me your little olive until I’ve picked and pickled you.
Please give me something to eat, call me a fool, and I am satisfied with the bargain.
Poverty breeds discontented children.
Problems are coped with more easily if you choose to be cheerful.
Radio is all talk and no action.
Refusal to see and hear makes stubborn people into stupid people.
Shared misfortune is shared sorrow because we are not alone and abandoned.
Sickness and depression are nature’s warnings that you have done something wrong.
Some things are a waste of time and aren’t even fun.
Something is something, but nothing is nothing.
Success usually depends on knowing how to hang on.
Tell your problem to another dog who has chewed on that bone.
The art of successful business is in paying promptly.
The best and the worst for a man come from his wife.
The best mirror of yourself is seen in an old friend.
The best way to solve a problem is to cure its cause.
The best word is still to be spoken, and it will probably sound like, Yes!
The child who never cries will die of thirst.
The debts are clear, the chocolates thick, and music is in the air.
The devil hides behind spoken moralities.
The devil knows because he has observed human cause and effect.
The father of a saint was an observant son of a sinner.
The favorite guest is he who gives the most help and asks the fewest favors.
The fields in April and May forecast next year’s bounty.
The first worker to go eat was the last one to get to work.
The frivolous conversation is killing opportunities to experience life.
The gossip you know will gossip and lie about you.
The greatest hate grows from the greatest love rejected.
The greatest victory a general can claim spilled no blood.
The habit covers a multitude of sins and sinners.
The lion is as quiet as a kitten with his family.
The one who has enough and is not in debt to anyone is rich enough to be content.
The path to virtue is narrow and straight, but the road to vice is broad and crooked.
The secret known to two is no secret.
The shoemaker’s son goes barefoot until he learns his father’s trade.
The shrimp never sleeps and clings to his rock until he chooses to leave.
The tongue isn’t a weapon, but it destroys many things.
The trees at the edge of the woods obscure the depth of the forest.
The ultimate conclusion of all life is death and of all things oblivion.
The wind changes every day, as does every living thing.
The world is like a handkerchief full of snot, sweat, and tears.
There are always situations that benefit one and injure others, so foresee those situations.
There are no birds in last year’s nest because the birds prefer fresh new ones.
There is an infinite gap between proclaiming something is a fact and demonstrating it.
There is much to be gained by being safe and choosing what risks are worth the potential payoffs.
There is no little enemy because all enemies seek to poke your sensitive places.
There is no permanent happiness, only moments of happiness when things seem good.
There is nothing so strange as people’s motivations and behavior.
There will always be some problems and pleasures in overcoming them.
There’s no substitute for experience, combined with forethought.
Three Spaniards, four opinions, until they talk for a while, and then it becomes infinity of quarrels.
Time heals all human problems, sometimes with well-placed deaths.
Time heals all wounds, and wounds all heals.
Time never stands still, but it does loiter.
To deny everything with a 5th amendment right to not talk implies guilt of every accusation.
To govern well requires foresight and counselors with hindsight and foresight.
To those whom you reveal a private secret, you become a slave.
To those with proven virtue, the boasting of inherited titles is empty vanity.
Tomorrow is always going to be the busiest day of your week.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, but each has a fine entree.
Too much air into a balloon, and it pops.
Treat your subordinates as you wish to be treated by your superiors.
Trouble will rain down on those who don’t prepare or avoid it.
Trust yourself to know and adjust to your faults.
Truth and oil eventually come to the surface and shine.
Truth is the daughter of time and conversation about facts.
Turkeys don’t fly of their own into our mouths, ready roasted and perfectly seasoned.
Twenty-six miles feels like halfway in a marathon race.
Variety is the spice of life and dinner.
Walls have ears and a notebook.
Washing a pig with soap is okay for the county fair, as a clean pig is a pretty pig.
We are all geniuses and crazy fools with a penchant for poetry and music.
We are conflicted within ourselves with beliefs and doubts and stuck with what we dislike.
We don’t know what we value until it’s gone.
We live either for hopes or aspirations.
We must always be patient with rich and powerful children.
What has been promised is a debt that must be paid.
What is desired never seems to be what is delivered.
What is inevitable must be adapted to and endured.
What stupidity leads me to expose the faults in others that I see in myself.
Whatever anyone does or says must be good in their worldview.
When a Spaniard sings, he is either crazy or penniless.
When misfortune is sleeping, prevent everyone from wakening her.
When our good cheer is lacking, our friends will depart.
When you are very hungry, everything tastes wonderful.
Where there is a desire, the ability to satisfy it will be found.
Where there is gossip, there will be cheating and lying.
Where there is love, there will be a pain.
Where there’s no bread, there will be discontent.
Where there’s smoke, there has been a recent fire.
Whoever sows a wild wind will provoke storms they can not control.
Woe unto them that are wise and foresee their future.
Women, like princes, find few, if any, real friends.
Working too hard for your business creates neglect of one’s family.
Write one minute and erase then next.
You can’t escape the natural destiny of the world, but you can aim some of yours.
You can’t please everybody all of the time.
You must be very careful where you can err only once to die.
You must endure the bad as well as good results of your actions.
You should wash dirtied clothing privately at home.
Your possessions claim that you become what you own.

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Colombian proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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A constant guest becomes annoying.
A depressed person will still be sad after several drinks.
A lame man must start talking when it’s past time to run away.
A person who recognizes his mistakes and adapts to his faulty methods will survive.
A problem wrapped in cake becomes as easy as eating the piece of cake.
A toothless crone needs to dip her hard bread crusts into soup.
Adapt your behavior to the people, place, and occasion.
Adult dogs stand and face you when they bark, but old dogs bark while sitting down.
Always do the right thing, so you have a good excuse later.
An honest man can’t steal, even from a thief.
Avoid people that are crazier than a checkered dog.
Be careful when putting your batteries into their slots.
Be careful when you release your hounds.
Break your tasks into workable-sized chunks.
Buy dinner for a girlfriend to get to know her.
Clean hands offend no one except plumbers.
Dirt that doesn’t kill you will make you fat is said to one who picks up dropped food and eats it.
Don’t blow off a crowing rooster.
Don’t give a slick papaya a cursory laugh.
Don’t go romping through my bedroom as if you live here.
Don’t schedule all day to give a bald guy a haircut.
Even after an hour of sunshine, her skin was whiter than an emerald-eyed tree frog.
Everyone thinks they know what’s best for themselves.
Experience with the exact situation is a better predictor than a good theory.
Fear prevents your thinking about alternate solutions to your problem.
Fill the place to capacity with coffee drinkers.
Friends have clean accounts and conversations over hot chocolate.
Get cautious when things are too good to be true.
Get it working and then upgrade to it working permanently.
Grab the handrail routinely to develop the habit of caution.
Having more money provides you with more opportunities.
Having the burden of a life task is a great benefit.
He became more irritable than a hungry tiger.
He who gives away all his belongings will soon be moving on.
He’s as confused as a head louse in a wig.
He’s uglier than the bottom of a Jeep driven through cow shit.
Hunger sharp enough to cut your guts.
I will tell you all about the miracle, but I’ll not gossip about the saint.
If the situation is bad and you fall, get up because everything is always changing.
If we haven’t seen someone for years, does it hurt as much if they die?
If you snooze through BINGO, you lose.
Ignore the negative things people say about others and you.
Instruction learned by children is embedded forever in their character.
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
It is impossible to be wise and love simultaneously.
It would be best to take responsibility for your behavior and business.
It’s better to be a man than a pot or a lid.
Keep your nose out of my soup!
Make a patch (hang out).
Milking your drinking buddies to buy the next round is a favorite conversation.
Only a fool puts ketchup in his champagne.
Only make a barely audible uyyee to your buddies when a pretty girl walks by.
People work best at things they know best.
People, and media, get more attention by talking up a storm whenever the wind blows.
Please don’t roll your eyes at me, or I’ll put eye drops in them.
Poor but honest is heard more often than rich but honest.
Refusing food and water and constant sleeping are precursors of death.
See and believe, but verify with touching.
Showing passions exposes you and your enemy’s weak points.
Son of a mother! is sometimes said with sudden pain.
Stop paying attention to guys showing off their aggressiveness.
Talk is only warm air, but bragging is hot air.
That bullfighter’s underwear looks so good we should eat it.
That cute kid grew up into a selfish brat.
That guy’s stuff is more chained down than a pen in a bank.
That subject is sucked drier than a pacifier in a nursery.
The first to start gets that much advantage in the race.
The more often you consciously do something, the greater your skill.
Their friendship is close like dirt under fingernails.
They hung up his soccer shoes.
Things are never exactly what we believe them to be.
Think about the historical inertia of the events and of present forces.
Time will take care of your pain and sadness if you eliminate the problems.
Train ourselves to convert negative passions into enthusiasm.
Visiting a zoo doesn’t make you an authority on African wildlife.
We all die in the dark as our blood pressure drops.
We become more like the people we associate with every passing event.
We don’t take shit from a misbehaving brat.
We go into a good long sleep in the dark.
We grow weak without meat for a week.
We must respect a bull’s horns and a man’s assertions.
We need things to do and chafe under interminably dull conditions.
What can be dirtier than a miner’s underwear?
What do you eat that makes you so wise?
What I say might be a distortion because I am not sure I have accurate information.
When a bad thing happens, other bad things are probably latent.
When a Colombian dies, they hang up his soccer boots.
When force is compelling your behavior, the law is ignored.
When forced to choose between two evils, go for the one with the best excuse.
When in a new town go to the restaurant where the locals go.
When someone enters without knocking, you say, Did you sleep with me last night, or what?
When starving, Colombians are so thin they cut themselves when bending over.
When you are poor, you have no choice and must accept what freely comes your way.
Where there are exposed stones around a creek, there will be floods.
You live longer and healthier if you avoid dangerous activities.

South Korean proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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– Anayokota – Hub Pages – Inspirational Stories – Proverbicals – Wikiquote

A baby will love a tiger as a soft, warm kitty.
A calf doesn’t know when a kind butcher will kill it.
A cornered rat has no choice but to attack the cat.
A family of talkers makes poor suppers.
A knife can’t carve its handle.
A man in extremity is a holy man’s bread and butter.
A man’s youth will lead him to the end of his days.
A moment of joy carries you through the pits.
A monk hesitates to shave his head with a straight razor.
A poor farmer argues with his ox.
A prince’s power lasts ten years, fame and influence a hundred.
A sheet of paper is lighter when two people aren’t carrying it.
A sheet of paper is lighter when two people quietly hold half.
A soft apology can soften anger.
A squirrel’s tail distracts predators but attracts lovers.
A stone in the path is an obstacle to the weak and a firm step for the strong.
A stranger nearby can give immediate help for an obvious problem.
A strong tree is strong from its first appearance.
A task put off for one day will be forgotten for ten.
A thief hates the full moon when he can’t lurk about.
A turtle only walks when it feels safe and can stick its neck out.
A widower recognizes a widow’s sorrow.
All calligraphers carefully choose their brushes.
An act of revenge that was provoked by love will end in tragedy.
An old horse will have long teeth and a shaggy tail.
Any branch on a tree is at risk of breaking.
Anyone who hasn’t eaten for three days will take an extra cookie.
Approaching a job with enthusiasm means it’s nearly done before you start.
Ask about the road ahead from someone who just came from there.
At a man’s funeral, we remember the good things he accomplished.
Bad timing brings bad luck.
Beans grow where beans are planted, as do kindnesses.
Beauty is recognized in the prepared mind of the observer.
Behave the way you want everyone to behave.
Better on time than a moment late.
Birds listen to chirps, and mice listen to squeaks.
Birds will respond to your repeating their songs.
Butterflies, bees, and people are attracted to flowers’ color and symmetries.
Capable of many things but not enough to earn a living.
Carve the peg to fit the hole.
Catch a falling star, and put it in your pocket.
Check for honesty by leaving valuable little things lying about.
Clothes are wings that help people fly through their lives.
Coming words will be characteristic of the speaker’s previous words.
Deep ocean water can support gigantic waves.
Define ten steps to your life goal and practice them early and often.
Doing the job slowly and right today saves doing it hurriedly and wrong tomorrow.
Don’t expose anything where people will not appreciate it.
Don’t leave a thief to guard your stuff.
Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
Don’t say anything if you can’t say something helpful.
Don’t spit up when you are lying down.
Don’t throw any dirt into your drinking water.
Don’t worry about milk spilled on the floor; the cat will love it.
During the day and night, we change and become different people.
Empty pots and heads make loud noises when bumped.
Even a wage slave has hope for a better tomorrow.
Even expert climbers like monkeys sometimes fall.
Even honey will taste bad if you take a lot of it as medicine.
Even identical twins look different.
Even if you know the road, ask oncomers if it’s clear.
Even the best bird songs become annoying after a while.
Every ending is a new beginning if you head back.
Every river accepts more water.
Everything responds to your actions.
Everywhere we go, it’s either mountains or flat.
Fish would be living longer lives if humans didn’t exist.
Fix the barn door before the cows wander out.
Forever, I will miss you when I am not holding you in my arms.
Fortune favors the brave, but sometimes it’s misfortune.
Gems and men are perfected with harsh abrasives.
Genius from an early age is called potential genius.
Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild and send them to bed.
Happiness comes and goes, but contentment hangs around.
He is feigning ignorance of his actual responsibilities.
He’s like an oak tree trying to teach a fish to swim.
Honesty is the only policy that brings people back.
I am starting with enthusiasm, working with focused attention, and finishing with purpose.
I meet her every night in my dreams.
I was hit in my foot by my favorite ax.
I will do the brain work; you need to remember the results.
If one cousin buys some land, the other cousins suffer.
If you encounter a small stone bridge, tap it with a cane.
If you have a destination, check out the alternate roads.
If you live in a hole, get out and go for a goal-directed walk.
If you speak of the tiger Sun Tzu, he will appear.
If you starve for three days, your body’s insulin level will reset for burning fat.
If you want a water well, ask a professional for advice.
If you wish and wait, your dreams may come true.
If you’re going to cry to another guy, stop being so pretty.
In a valley with no tigers or foxes, the rabbit is king.
Infants must be encouraged to do infant things.
It is better to learn from the whip than the club.
It is evil to spread your hands in wide-open innocence while lying.
It is quiet, gentle people who lose their temper when over-taxed.
It is satisfying to help a friend scratch an itch.
It only takes three years to eradicate murderous thoughts.
It took every moment to create the person I am today.
It’s comfortable to relax after doing something worthwhile.
It’s impossible to see what’s under your chin.
Laughter soothes many worries.
Love prods you to do something positively productive.
Loving you wasn’t included in my life plan until now.
My first and only love will always be you.
Observe a shadow’s light source and its shadow source.
Observe ahead the suitability of a bridge or road before using it.
Other people’s desserts always look bigger.
Our most significant failing is caused by succeeding with mundane tasks.
People love company in all their joys and sorrows.
Pick up seeds and plant trees today.
Please give us some help solving the problem you caused.
Prevention of suffering is always better than enduring it.
Prey birds live in groups, and predatory ones are more solitary.
Regret is reserved for those who have no future.
Rumors have invisible wings and can fly thousands of miles.
Say pretty things for pretty people to hear.
Saying kind words is difficult when talking about nature’s reality.
Shade your eyes from the sun with your palm above your eyes.
Some brief moments make a whole life meaningful.
Some day there will be a path to get there, and we can be the ones to make it.
Some entrepreneurs go from rags to riches and back again.
Sometimes, one more time will be enough.
Sometimes we can repay a large debt with one word.
That’s as easy as eating cake.
The bull who loves a sunny day will shiver in the night.
The darkest place in the room is beneath the candle.
The easiest thing we do for our lovers is to give ourselves to them.
The emotion driving us to do impossible things is love.
The frog is a frog and doesn’t recognize his former incarnations.
The further away something is, the smaller it looks and the less important it becomes.
The most lovely woman is your own, but the nicest harvest is next door.
The most useful trees are the first to be cut down.
The person who knows himself and his challenges can see the paths to success.
The person with the most faults is first to recognize them in others.
The proper order for routine actions is known; for new things, they are mysterious.
The question “What if” is the door opening to opportunity.
The shortcut to learning is learning how to identify what needs learning.
The shortcuts for getting to where you need to go are filled with sharp rocks.
The sun wakes the rooster to crow!
There is always someone who can do a thing better for you.
Through the study of core ideas, we learn how to find new ones.
To approach a task with enthusiasm makes it interesting.
To be prepared for changing circumstances perks you to their precursors.
Tomorrow depends on what you do today.
Try love if you feel like you are at the lowest point in your life.
Virginity is always lost in one night.
We are gathering dust to build a mountain.
We learn songs in school to teach us our languages.
We never know when a little thing will change everything.
What is tossed up will soon come down.
What looks better will taste better.
What will you do when you know the truth?
What you say turns into seeds where new ideas can grow.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive, he can pursue.
When people die, they only leave their names chiseled in stone.
When the sky falls on you, it comes as rain.
When the sky is falling, go indoors.
When tigers die, they leave leather and claws for mementos.
When you have three daughters, you must plan for marriages.
Where no tigers prowl, a house cat lurks proudly.
While whales fight, their favorite foods live an hour longer.
Winning battles isn’t as great as forcing peace without fighting.
Winter with snow, spring with sunshine, and summer with companions.
Wise fish notice the strings attached to the perfect meals.
Wise men philosophize and negotiate peace while fools wage battles.
Without sleep, there will be no dreaming of you.
Words worry about problems, but actions enjoy making solutions,
You can’t receive help until you are ready to accept it.
You can’t cross the ocean until you know how to navigate by the stars.
You can’t strike a face that is smiling at you.
You can’t think when scared, so look at what you must do and do it.
You injure your foot when you kick a stone in anger, and your whole body suffers.
You may go slow and occasionally eat and sleep, but never quit.
You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take.
You will appear foolish, killing flies on the wing with your sword.
You will see more miracles if you believe in their existence.

Kenyan proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

21 Friday Jan 2022

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– Diaspora Messenger – Inspirational Stories – Kenya Advisor – Proverbicals – Special Dictionary

A baby may suckle his mother’s breasts but not his father’s testicles.
A beginner digs the grave of a gravedigger.
A bird fetching food doesn’t forget where its chicks live.
A champion bull is a champion from birth.
A child may point the way to the toilet, but you must find it yourself.
A child will learn what things will hurt them from experience.
A constant complainer is soon ignored.
A dead rat doesn’t mind being teased by a cat.
A dog that steals food knows he risks punishment.
A donkey acknowledges your overloading him with a kick.
A duck doesn’t change its feathers when it rains.
A flea routinely bites a lion, and the lion can’t bite him back.
A four-year-old child will not die because his mother’s breasts are dry.
A friend who has gained political power is no longer a friend.
A friend will sing your favorite songs with you.
A generous person and a greedy one will remember your charity.
A hyena doesn’t mind how bad he smells.
A long-distance runner was born with the right stuff.
A loved one’s pimples are beauty marks.
A man trap catches many innocent men as well as criminal ones.
A man who laments too long is soon ignored.
A man who sleeps with your mother will slap you when she is elsewhere.
A man’s accomplishments are more important than his ancestor’s.
A mango seed has a false reputation for cleaning out your guts.
A person acquires the habits of his companions.
A rope always breaks where it is weakest.
A stiff old tree can’t be bent into a shepherd’s crook.
A wise man’s most valued things are hidden.
A withered old banana was once healthy and erect.
A woman changes her clothes to reappear, looking even better.
A woman who wants a child cannot always sleep alone.
A woman’s stomach does not kick if she is not pregnant.
A word locked in a heart does not bring love.
Absolute belief in anything makes a man dangerous.
Adult children have to care for their elders.
After a fool’s disastrous deed, there comes foolish remorse.
Aging slowly chews away your youthful vigor.
All cassavas have the same look outside but not the same taste inside.
An ant will not bite a nestmate.
An employee does what he is told to do, just like a slave.
An excessive heavy load carried too long destroys the will to carry anything.
An honest man sometimes gives rise to a son who learned how to cheat honest people.
An old pot has food stains.
An orphaned calf must lick its own back.
Another person can laugh with you, but you must smile by yourself.
Appreciate the gifts you receive, and thank the sources.
Avoid every form of unrewarded risk.
Baboons don’t recognize their red butts in mirrors.
Be kind to your bees, as their trips to flowers fulfill your honey lust.
Beauty is appreciated patterning of structure!
Beauty organizes itself into functional patterns.
Before the gods destroy you, they will make you love them.
Being a bad dancer does not spoil the evening.
Bow-legged men can’t chase antelopes.
Burning charcoal is turned into carbon dioxide.
Crawling doesn’t prevent you from walking normally.
Do not accuse anyone of witchcraft until absolutely everyone is convinced.
Do not follow a person who has run twenty steps away.
Do not kill anything before its mother’s eyes.
Doing a job fast is not as important as doing it correctly.
Don’t bother gathering firewood if you don’t need it.
Don’t bother trying to do impossible things.
Don’t burn his house down if you don’t want a crazy person moving in.
Don’t envy what they have, but do appreciate what you have.
Don’t judge the sweetness of sugar by its color.
Don’t litter public places, and clean up your messes.
Don’t poop in the river; your relatives might see it float by their home.
Don’t send a boy to buy honey.
Easily acquired is quickly forgotten.
Elephants’ tusks are never abandoned.
Escalating violence has a deadly ending.
Even a child can tell you where to go potty.
Even a newborn jackal is a jackal.
Even your best friend can’t rescue you from old age.
Every door gives or denies passage through a wall.
Every seed prefers its way of germinating and growing.
Every statement can have complex intent, and every person has many possible understandings.
Everyone’s walking gait is unique to them.
Everything has its way of eating and defending itself.
Everything lives because of its efforts to survive.
Everywhere in the world, an empty pot makes the most noise.
Follow bees to where they store their honey.
Going faster is okay, but hurrying isn’t.
Good discussions provide a rich life, and bad ones rob you.
Good luck has graced us with the clean air we have been breathing.
Good products sell themselves because they satisfy a human need.
He who can’t dance well looks outside of himself for a reason.
He who refuses to obey reality will lead his followers to destruction.
He who wants to sleep in a warm, soft spot must get there first.
Hearts blend and do not meet one another at crossroads.
Help others while helping yourself, and they will help you.
Home business and public business are best kept separate.
Humankind must explore those things that are thought to be too difficult for a man to do.
If someone kills your goat, let him repay you with a pregnant one.
If starving people are near, everyone will not survive.
If the child doesn’t resemble dad, it resembles mum or hum.
If the soup is sweet, it was made by a fat cook.
If you are doing two things, one of them isn’t quite right.
If you don’t look into the future of inertia, it will impede you.
If you want what’s under the bed, you must lower yourself to get it.
If you wonder what it’s like to be dead, look into a grave.
Indolence destroys a good harvest.
It doesn’t matter who your ancestors were; you must do your growing.
It falls into his mouth when a ripe fruit sees an honest man.
It feels better to be born poor and prosper than rich and become poor.
It is a foolish coward that sweats in cool water.
It is better to lose an eye than your loving heart.
It is easy to be defeated if you do not stoke your emotional fires.
It is nonsense to try and bite your nose to save your face.
It makes no difference the size of the body; the head is always away from the shit.
It will be known if you curse others from a remote mountain top.
Never let a hyena know how poorly you can bite.
Only after the harvest will you know the results of your year’s labor.
Only believe a woman’s recounting an event a day later.
Peacefully flows man’s life when he follows his wife at home, and she follows him in public.
Personal affairs at home should not be mentioned in public.
Practice saying, “Thank You!” when your stubbed toe reminds you to be careful.
Put an o into the word god, and you have good, but add an l, and you have gold.
Put wildfires out while they are tiny.
Quietly take knives away from children and involve them in healthy play.
Rivers flow on by, in the dreams of a thirsty sleeping man.
Sticks tied in a bundle spread the stress and don’t break.
Talking is a form of love.
The bleating of a lamb doesn’t prevent its being eaten.
The deeds of a man are the measure of his life.
The elephant and the tiger do not search for their food in the same place.
The enemy you are familiar with is preferable to an unknown one.
The eye reflexively avoids danger.
The gods only hear the first prayer and ignore the rest.
The horns of a cow are not decorations.
The man in charge encourages his dog to be in charge too.
The mice will tease a cat wearing mittens.
The one who gets up earliest gets the most done during the day.
The owl is wise because it remains quiet when it knows something important.
The sun shines on little villages and farmers and cities and kings.
The world is constantly changing, but cats still aren’t laying eggs.
Those with few possessions claim blessings are better.
To be well paid for your work is the highest kind of praise.
To live your life’s potential, you must endure old age.
Too many births forecast many early deaths.
Too many monkeys on a branch fall together when it breaks.
Too much exertion of any part of your body will exhaust your whole body
Treat the earth well because it provides for everybody’s needs.
Two footprints may guide a direction, but they don’t make a path.
Two men shouldn’t quarrel when in a canoe.
Unintended injuries cause less suffering than intended ones.
Virtue is better than wealth.
Virtuous men claim it’s better to be virtuous than rich, and vice versa.
Water doesn’t stay in the sky forever, but it usually goes somewhere else.
We should accomplish our human things while we are living.
What you leave to your children was given to you for stewardship by your ancestors.
When a captain’s ship sinks, he becomes captain of the lifeboat.
When a dead tree falls, it permits small ones to flourish.
When elephants argue, it’s the grass that suffers most.
When figs are ripe, everybody’s eating figs.
When mutual support helps, people search for help.
Whoever gets to the pond first drinks the cleanest water.
Wisdom is like hair, and you get more as you age or don’t.
Yesterday is gone, but it is not ancient history.
You and your crops can’t drink lightning and thunder.
You can’t kill a louse with one finger.
You can’t shave a man in the other room.
You must reward a messenger regardless of the message’s contents.
You shall be given cows after your donkeys grow horns.
You will have nightmares if you look into the eyes of a monkey you are about to kill.
You won’t notice how steep the hills are on the way to your love.
Your dirty hands wash each other.
Your feet don’t choose which way you go.

Covid Logarithmic chart 2022-01-20

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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**Covid Logarithmic chart 2022-01-20** JPG

Covid Logarithmic chart 2022-01-20 GIF – Click to enlarge then use the + for an even bigger image.

The chart has been enlarged and expanded for two more years. It has been cleaned up a bit from last week’s first attempt. The nonstop idle hope that this disease is about to come to an end has led to a consistent loss of real action to bring it to an end. I have said that a more realistic approach is to acknowledge that it will be with us for a long time and we must adapt to its presence and protect ourselves as best we can.

Ethiopian proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

19 Wednesday Jan 2022

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All about ETHIO – DUNIA – Inspirational Stories – Motivation Africa – Proverbicals – TUKO

A cat living in a monastery doesn’t become a monk.
A child’s loose tooth is worth a coin.
A close friend can become an enemy.
A doctor can’t help patients who won’t reveal their symptoms.
A fool and water always go down.
A fool might be thirsty while swimming in a river.
A fool takes sarcastic praise with a happy smile.
A fool will give an elephant an ox’s job.
A foolish daughter explains to her mother how to have children.
A good conversation is better than a night’s sleep.
A good reputation acquires more friends than wearing a good perfume.
A good reputation is better than good perfume.
A house must be built before the rains come.
A house without a woman is not a home.
A hungry mother gets a loaf of bread for her nursing child
A hyena will come in and eat your dog’s dinner.
A lone stick is hesitant to take fire.
A man who acts on advice does it from his own free will.
A mouse sniffing a cat’s nose will discover teeth.
A partner in a business will not interfere with a sale.
A person without shame for stealing a candy will happily steal your shirt.
A rat will stand witness for another rat.
A sad face is visible, but not a melancholy heart.
A sheep can’t bleat and eat at the same time.
A too-quiet man will get no lunch.
Advise a boy, but he doesn’t listen; let the world do the teaching.
After he survived his illness, he stopped praying.
After the hyena eats his food and leaves, the dog starts barking.
An anxious coward sweats while swimming.
An old fool’s behaviors are still foolish.
Anticipate the good times so you may enjoy them fully.
As a wound injures your finger, a destructive thought will injure your mind.
Be careful with your eyes and friends, for they are easily hurt.
Because he killed his wife, he hid with her parents.
Being forced to sit too long is like being crippled.
Better an egg is eaten now than an uncertain chicken next year.
Big men have big hearts.
By protecting the eggs, the chicks will soon walk on their legs.
Cactus is edible only to those who get rid of the thorns.
Clothes put on in haste will tangle.
Coffee and love are better hot.
Constantly talking about God doesn’t impede a thief from stealing.
Dine with strangers but save your love for your wife and children.
Do not expect what you learn on the Nile to be applicable in the desert.
Do not hesitate to do something productive, or people will consider you to be nonproductive.
Do not stay after dark in a house where you are not welcome for the whole night.
Don’t attempt to climb a ladder until you are a competent walker.
Don’t grab a cat by the tail as the other end has claws and teeth.
Don’t steal anything yourself, and punish your child the first time he steals anything.
Donkeys don’t care for honey or money.
Eat when food is served, and speak when the time is right
Everyone comes home when the day is done and to the grave when life is done.
Everyone looks out for their dinner, leopards watch goats, and goats watch leaves.
Everything has its qualities, and the invisible air speaks when it moves.
Evil enters like the point of a needle but spreads like an oak tree.
Evil money is soon squandered.
Fifty lemons are carried by one person and made into perfume for fifty people.
Fishing the bottom of a lake may bring up disgusting things.
Fooling the chicken with a trail of grain lured her into the basket.
He who barters becomes informed of what value people place on various things.
He who has abstract schooling soon shares abstract ideas.
He who has nothing to do should have a good book in his pocket.
He who lives with asses will sound like an ass.
I see a cow in the clouds, but I can’t drink her milk.
I was paid as a goat because I sounded like a goat.
If a friend hurts you, you can run to your wife for comfort.
If a man refuses to listen to his friends, let adversity teach him.
If relatives help one another, they all prosper.
If snakes are about, keep a stick in your hand.
If you are going where corn is cheap, bring a pack bag.
If you enter a town that worships cows, bring some grass to feed them.
If you offend, apologize; if you are offended, accept apologies.
If you offend, ask for pardon; if offended, forgive.
If you stoop, expect to be trampled.
If you wait long enough, an egg will start walking.
In Ethiopia, coffee converts to daily bread.
Invite him as a friendly gesture, but don’t feed him as a limit to friendship.
It is a thief’s mistake to trust a fellow thief.
It is easy to become a celibate monk in old age.
It is foolhardy to burn firewood without using the flames.
It is foolish to look for dung where cattle never go.
It is from listening to experienced men that you learn cause and effect.
It is healthier to be the cub of a living jackal than of a dead lion.
Judas was born to be Christ’s traitor.
Learn to be polite by observing the responses of impolite people.
Men fear a clear and present danger, women the thought of it.
Never belittle the fields that grow your food.
No matter how you wash a goat, it will still smell like a goat.
No one becomes rich selling candy on holiday.
Not even the Sun can know what the new day will bring.
Nursing calves love their mother’s horns.
Oh, little lamb, if I do not eat you, you will eat me.
Oh, the old hyena ate me without even making an excuse.
One who hides with a dog and fleas will soon be found.
One who learns basic facts will eventually teach them.
One who runs alone cannot outrun their fate.
People who have a lot of experience hesitate to comment on the complex affairs of others.
People with forethought and preparations avoid hardships.
Planting grapes by the road and marrying a pretty woman attracts poachers.
Put tools to their designed uses and scoop with a scoop.
Repentance and smelly tales are always in the distant past.
Restless feet may hurry into a snake pit.
Shared secrets are arrows that find their way to your enemy’s bows.
Smooth seas don’t make good sailors.
Some are born, and others die, and even the land has its limits.
Some learn through punishment, others by rewards.
Sometimes the fool speaks, and wisdom listens, not so often the reverse.
Swallow your pride and eat dinner with ordinary people.
Take your steps lightly, and the thorns will not prick you.
Termites live beneath the ground.
Thank God for not creating tigers with wings.
That old bitch’s horns are too heavy for a cow.
That which a strong wind has blown away will never be found.
That which is over-inflated will burst.
The best kind of man is a farmer, and the best type of food is fruit.
The cattle are as good as the land in which they graze.
The child who grows up without correction will talk too much.
The foolish blind man will pick a fight with his guide.
The frog puffed himself up to challenge the elephant and burst.
The lead camel stops, and the last camel gets the whack.
The little stars will always shine at night while the great Sun is often eclipsed in the day.
The meaning of life withers when you are far from home.
The needle’s point always leads the thread.
The one who does nothing makes the worst mistake.
The same water never runs into the same river twice.
The sky is equally close to everyone, but some never notice it.
There is no better witness than the experience of your own eyes.
They snatched from me my truths.
Those who explore by day and talk with diverse people discover opportunities.
Those who must eat a vulture will call it a chicken.
To come out of someone’s house implies you are smarter now.
Unless you call out, who will open the door?
We are always trying to better all of our conditions
We have two legs, but we can’t climb two trees at the same time.
We travel around the Earth until we return into the Earth.
When serving desserts, one doesn’t take a small piece.
When the heart is sad, the eyes will flow.
When the Nile learns a secret, the desert will soon learn of it.
When there are too many cooks, the cabbage will become soup.
Where there are men, there will be disagreements.
While reaching for one thing, another is often lost.
You can observe a person’s character by their reaction to hunger.
Your horse might run away while you’re looking under the saddle.

The Cancer Code by Dr. Jason Fung

18 Tuesday Jan 2022

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The Cancer Code by Dr. Jason Fung is a wonderful follow-on book to his earlier bestselling books, The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code. It builds on those two books and successfully describes cancer, which isn’t a disease in the usual sense. Instead, cancer is better viewed as a built-in evolutionary contest of our internalized life forms. Unfortunately, because it is a different way of looking at cancer, I can’t describe it convincingly in a few sentences, which is why you need to read the book.

Briefly, cancer was first described as excessive growth, then later as genetic mutations that have accumulated, but those theories promoted methods of combating cancer at its most highly defended state. The new approach is to attack cancer where it is most vulnerable, which happens to be where our bodies naturally kill vast numbers of cancer cells every day. We are carrying a large load of cancers, nearly all of which aren’t metastasizing and therefore aren’t killing us. The new method is to keep these early forms of cancer in check.

Most types of disease have had massive reductions in the last hundred years, except for cancer. Even cancer has had some lowering, but it presently is the second largest killer of Americans, running a close second to cardiovascular deaths. One of the prime drivers of the forms of cancer that are becoming prominent is rampant human obesity, and especially that form of growth generated by the various forms of sugars. Once a cancer cell has gone through several difficult early stages of development, which were made difficult by the aforementioned evolved human anticancer mechanisms, it reaches the stage of metastasizing. It is at this most dangerous stage that cancer thrives on sugars and body fat, which is why the current obesity epidemic will result in huge numbers of American deaths in the coming decades.

However, this knowledge will make it possible to combat cancer more effectively—by lowering people’s Body Mass Index (BMI). Unfortunately, few people using standard techniques for losing weight are successful even two years later. Fung’s earlier book The Obesity Code helps because it explores diet methods that work. I know intermittent fasting works because my spouse and I lost 1 1/2 pounds a month for over a year and kept it off. It was easy and effective, and we are both well under the recommended BMI of 25.

There are more suggestions in The Cancer Code that are easy to apply.

Italian proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

17 Monday Jan 2022

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Proverbicals – Think Italian – Wikiquote

A beautiful girl has her choice of a husband.
A cask of wine performs more miracles than a hall of statues.
A doctor and a fool know more than a doctor or a fool.
A fool is always laughing at the wise, and they smile back.
A fool who knows a little will quickly reveal it to everybody.
A friend may not realize that preventing them from falling was more friendly than helping them get up.
A good ending opens the opportunity for another good beginning.
A good wife makes a common man into a good husband.
A guilty conscience makes a healthy mind squirm.
A happy wife creates happy lives.
A healthy anvil purrs with the strokes of a hammer.
A healthy mind inhabits a healthy world.
A hundred-year-old revenge has had plenty of practice.
A king’s bequest comes with golden strings.
A little man with ambition casts a long shadow.
A little sweet butter coating helps you take a bitter pill of truth.
A lover’s anger is gone in a few seconds.
A man warned of peril is half saved.
A meal without wine is a gloomy day.
A miserly father is punished with a prodigal son.
A mouse in your pot is better than no meat at all.
A noble death puts an honorable name on a well-lived life.
A person who lives by hope alone will die hungry and desperate for more life.
A rakish bachelor becomes a jealous old man.
A sensible fox hides his den.
A teacher’s hints are clear commands.
A thorn has a small point, but its victim remembers its prick.
A thoughtful sailor praises the sea but keeps his feet on land.
A well-lived life makes for an easy death.
A wolf is always reported as appearing bigger than it is.
Accept gifts with grace and gratitude.
Accept that you must somehow adapt to get what you now want.
Actions are Brutus, and words are Mark Antony.
Affection is directed at the loved one, but the reaction is the intention.
Aiming is not enough, nor shooting, when killing the animal is the intent.
All fruit that dangles does not fall.
All living things are approximately equal in mother nature’s world.
All or nothing never works well.
All roads in Rome lead away from Rome.
All things are good and only become worse in their excess.
All women want better-behaved men.
An unsolicited excuse raises suspicion.
Anger is an expensive bad habit.
Any more than just enough is too much.
Anything that can happen might happen right now.
Be fair with the devil, and he will still cheat you.
Beauty is worthless if it isn’t seen and appreciated.
Before and after the game, both the King and pawn are in a box.
Better an open mind than one filled with errors.
Better one marshmallow now than two after a while.
Better to live a life you fit into than have no life at all.
Between two cowards, the first to blink loses.
Big mouthfuls can’t be chewed.
Big plans should have chunks that you can apply separately.
Bite your tongue hard before you give a negative comment.
Brains are given to everybody, but some are faulty.
Burn your house to evict a mouse, and you’re homeless.
Caution is better than ruin.
Choose your load to fit your ability.
Concentrate on doing your job right and on time.
Contentment is better than health, which is better than wisdom, which is better than wealth.
Deal gently with the bird you intend to eat.
Deep people search for deep thoughts.
Delayed is okay if you finish well.
Diligence in youth makes a comfortable retirement.
Do as you can, if you can’t do as you should.
Do no evil and live in peace.
Do not go home with the anger of the day.
Do not judge others by your measure but by theirs.
Do not spur a working horse.
Do things yourself if you want them done to your specifications.
Dogs are happy when you come home and bring good feelings and snacks.
Don’t ask blind people to analyze the colors of your clothing.
Don’t bother identifying with your body, as it will soon be gone forever.
Don’t go where you will engage in enjoyments that you will regret.
Don’t let your tongue say things that will chop off your head.
Don’t mistake the fly on the elephant’s back for the elephant.
Don’t ask the old person for answers, but ask the one with experience.
Don’t get stuck in tasks that can never be finished.
Don’t judge a horse by its harness but by its works.
Don’t praise yourself in public for your good works, but in private.
Donkeys are staid walkers, not jolly trotters.
Drink enough water like a humble ox and a little wine like the King of Spain.
Each day brings its own bread and roses.
Eat enough, laugh appropriately, and love excessively.
Enjoy your life doing what you choose, and give others that option.
Envy will torture you and promote your competition.
Even a fool knows where the toilet is located.
Even a forest has ears and will echo back what you say.
Even a frog will defend itself by hiding.
Even looking at the horizon line of the ocean is better than nothing.
Every action has precursors that can be foreseen.
Every bird loves her nest and will defend it from robbers.
Every door may be shut except for death.
Every excuse is good if your judge believes it.
Every fool is filled with fantastic advice.
Every fool loves his folly.
Every rigid rule has loose exceptions.
Every rose has its thorns.
Every saint has a miracle.
Every squirrel twitches its tail to attract and warn
Every step you take away from home, you will encounter different customs.
Everybody is nearest their own problems.
Everybody knows that most of their labor is wasted.
Everybody’s cross was unfairly placed on him.
Everybody’s good for something.
Everyone loves justice in public, but at home, it’s always a power struggle.
Everyone must see Naples before they die.
Everything that can happen eventually will happen.
Everything’s price is what you paid.
Experience comes from observing causes and their effects.
Experience of facts is more predictive than a general theory.
Failures are constructive moments of discovery of what doesn’t work.
Family is the home of your heart.
Fine words don’t satisfy hungry cats.
Foolish boys discover what works and become normal men.
Fools grow wiser the more they drink.
For a bad sickness, do as your doctor recommends.
Forbidden fruit tempts the naughty boy.
Forethought gives foresight, gives forecast, gives forewarned, makes you fortified and forearmed.
Forget their faults and make adjustments for your own
Forgive, forget and flee.
From nothing comes its opposite, from which comes its opposite.
From observing and thinking comes wisdom.
Gifts from enemies are traps with strings.
Give the devil the due that he deserves.
Give your friend a little money, but don’t lend any.
Gnaw on the bone that falls into your mouth.
Go early to the market and learn how to succeed.
Good is good enough, but better is better than good enough.
Good seeds well-tended make good crops.
Great sorrow is still, mute and staring blindly.
Hasty climbers are subject to sudden falls.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes intermittently.
He is a poor barber who only owns one comb.
He learns to cope with reality who abandons vain hopes.
He that builds a home by the roadside has many critics.
He that lives in a glass house has a head full of glass.
He that makes too many jokes confesses his wandering ways.
He went to Rome and did not see the Pope wave from the balcony.
He who avoids the battle will never wear a crown for long.
He who can not obey commands is not able to give commands.
He who dines with a devil will acquire the devil’s habits.
He who does as he chooses has few headaches.
He who goes to Rome a fool returns a poor fool with convictions.
He who has a Pope for a cousin will become a Cardinal.
He who has no patience is impeded from going far.
He who intends evil preplans his excuses.
He who is afraid of doing the devil’s work will rarely grow rich.
He who is not fretful and impatient is not in love.
He who knows nothing will talk of fantasies.
He who laughs at everything isn’t paying attention.
He who laughs last laughs longest and most cheerfully.
He who lives with a woman voluntarily yields some of his liberties.
He who looks for evil always finds it.
He who never begins a task will never finish it.
He who perseveres will approach his goals.
Health is ignored until you’re unable to work effectively.
Hear and see, but be kind, and you will live in contentment.
Help yourself get what you need, and the world will help you.
Hens proclaim their eggs from their beak.
Hope for a better future is always with us, but it needs help.
Hunger in all of its dimensions makes succeeding fulfilling them joyful.
Hunger is the pay for idle workers.
I am saying what you plan to do leaves forever half undone.
I lost a tool, but I still have my hands and meaningful goals.
I was lost on a long straight road without options.
I would enjoy soaring around like a bird, but I wouldn’t enjoy their food choices.
Idle people have no pleasurable leisure because they have no meaningful goals.
Idleness stimulates a search to escape boredom, and violence excites meaning.
If a man intentionally deceives me once, he will try again.
If a mountain won’t come to you, change your ambitions.
If one goes to sea, they must know how to sail in every situation.
If pride were a deadly disease, everyone would die by the age of five.
If someone betrays you once, they are primed to do it again.
If you are determined to do something, do it promptly and well.
If you are to succeed, you must not be too good for your own good.
If you buy love, you will lose the possibility of ever having true love.
If you dig pits for others, that becomes a habit you never escape falling into yourself.
If you felt for a minute what those you envy feel, you would pity them.
If you have a good wine cellar, enjoy it at dinner and avoid the tavern drunks.
If you step on a rock on a trail, move the rock off of the trail.
If you try to become rich in a year, you risk being dead in six months.
In the home of a clergyman, the family’s moral actions are not examples of his sermons.
It clears the mind to meditate for a few minutes, but an hour later, be pursuing your goals.
It feels better to be foolish with friends than alone and wise.
It is a single instant transitioning from fear to hatred.
It is a very bad dog that bites its owner.
It is better to lose the saddle than the horse, even if the saddle costs more.
It is better to ride a donkey than getting thrown off a horse.
It is better to say, “Here is where he ran.” than “Here is where he died.”
It is better to sell some wool cheaply than give away the sheep.
It is better to wear out your shoes looking for work than moping about.
It is not easy to chase the bull away from the garden by yelling out the window.
It is safer to give a dollar to a friend than lend him twenty.
It was a poor game where nobody won.
It’s is the cow’s head that decides to give her milk.
It’s the blood of dead soldiers that makes a general famous.
It’s the first shower that makes the fields smell like love.
Laughter cures many ills.
Laughter helps the blood to flow enthusiastically.
Living in shame is a terrible fate for a single bad moment.
Love based on characters grows ever deeper..
Love begins with songs of joy and ends with a lament of sorrow.
Love conquers everybody but the envious.
Love is blind to the loved one’s faults.
Love makes all men equally foolish.
Love makes everyone equal.
Love never tires of making love songs.
Luck is dependent on circumstances and changes rapidly.
Many devils pass through a church door.
Many men become bold when the enemy is fleeing.
Many people deal cards, but few can play well.
Many students have earned more money than their teachers could imagine.
Men are as old as their gait, and women as their posture.
Mills and wives are constantly seeking things to grind.
Misfortune sometimes provokes a great fortune to spring forth.
Misfortune sprints in unexpectedly and crawls away remorsefully.
Money has been designed to facilitate valuable human transactions.
Money invested begets money, but money hidden in a hole rots away.
Most worthwhile things are easier talked about than finished.
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are fighting over the same boy.
My perception will be void when I’m dead, and everybody’s dead.
Necessity is the absolute demand for a specific change.
Necessity obeys what works, and all else is ignored.
Necessity teaches what it’s like to need something.
Never point with a dirty finger to others’ mistakes.
Never reveal your monetary condition or your intellectual potentials.
New laws create new ways of cheating.
News is about problems, so no news is good news.
No book or person is so bad that you can’t get some good out of them.
No matter how perfectly they play, the losers are always wrong.
No sane lawyer ever goes to court to defend himself.
No woman ever speaks her truth without some fancy clothing.
Nothing is wonderful for more than three days, except the Webb telescope.
Of affairs that don’t involve you, remain silent.
Old habits never die; they just get overwritten.
Old thank you’s can’t serve for new gifts.
Old wine and old friends get more comfortable with age.
One devil makes a hell, and the more devils, the more hellish it is.
One who speaks with honey words may be feeding you poisoned medicine.
Only occasionally is it better late than never.
Out of a white egg came my pet rooster, Black Sambo.
Pasta is best when you are hungry.
Patience is a beauty that flourishes in a few gardens.
Personal needs drive everyone’s actions, but part of their needs are your needs too.
Plans complicate destinies, so I don’t have plans, I have goals.
Poor but honest describes many people living in poverty.
Practice is never quite perfect, but the approximations get closer.
Pro athletes know that getting on a magazine cover ruins the season.
Punishment often comes slow and lame, but it comes.
Quoting others as saying something that is half a made-up lie.
Shortcuts find bumpy roads.
Sleeping fishermen don’t catch many fish.
Sleeping is the poor man’s entertainment.
Some people have perfect eyes and see nothing.
Some truths need never be mentioned.
Sorrow and stress bleach your hair.
Speak of the Devil, and the Devil smiles at you.
Speak the truth and annoy the devil.
Speak to your judge with honesty and respect,
Speak your truth well, and stop.
Spread the joy thick and spread the sorrow thin.
Stop playing chess when the house catches fire.
Strike while the iron is hot enough to bend.
Take the intention for the hoped-for deed because they would have done it if they could.
Ten seconds of patience may bring ten years of peace.
Tenderness given to babies is good, but to healthy adults, it’s not so good.
The anvil survives longer than many hammers.
The best advice you can give to a starving man is a slice of bread.
The best armor is out of sight, out of range, and behind a stone wall.
The best defense is mutual self-interest.
The best goods look better and last longer.
The clothing fakes the status of the person wearing it.
The comforter should not be in pain themselves.
The criminal sees his act as a moment, but the victim sees it as eternal.
The cure is more painful than the disease, but both are soon gone.
The devil baits his hooks with gold.
The eye is blind if the mind is thinking of something else.
The garment you will wear the longest has no pockets.
The greatest fool is one who has been exposed to wisdom and didn’t learn to use it.
The hare is impossible to eat if you don’t catch it.
The healthy die first if they take chances and don’t protect their health.
The King knows the most facts and will talk only in motivational ways.
The mind of a fool lurks in all wise men.
The moment a law has been finalized, the ways around it open up.
The more a fox catches, the more hounds are sent to catch him.
The most reliable way to get some praise is to die.
The mouth and helpful hand kill more than the elbow.
The nicest guy finishes last with the nicest girl.
The older saints get, the less incense they get.
The preachers of morality place themselves in judgment above morality.
The prettiest flower is the soonest picked.
The rich never need to search for their relatives.
The road to hell is paved with what only appear to be good intentions.
The scent of a flower is only a moment of pleasure.
The school of experience runs on specific causes and effects.
The substance is not enough; some accidental good luck is required.
The Sun is still shining behind the stormy clouds.
The voice of a single person isn’t registered.
The water that flows to the ocean comes back as rain long after you are gone.
There is a vast gulf between said and done.
Think about the good stuff and beware of the bad stuff.
Those things you must not do are made intriguing and desirable.
Those who begin too many things finish few.
Those who do nothing are making a big mistake.
Those who do things sometimes make mistakes, but those who do nothing blunder.
Thoughts are good, be they 1st, 2nd, 3rd,7th, or any other.
To a quick, easy question, give a slow, detailed answer.
To be confident is to be calm in the face of power.
To enjoy the sweet, you need a tinge of bitterness.
To forget a wrong is quiet revenge.
To him that watches and is open to seeing everything is revealed.
To love and be loved provides enough reason for existence.
To preserve a friendship, there must be limitations.
To the responsible people, much is demanded.
To those who are determined to act, only the opportunity is needed.
Today it’s jam for me, and tomorrow it’s for you.
Too much happiness deprives one of ambition.
Too much prosperity makes those who have it appear wise.
True words can be spoken with every spin imaginable.
Truth is sometimes secret and should be kept secret.
Unused wisdom benefits no one.
Use your tools within their design limitations.
Vices are learned without an instructor.
We don’t need to worry about the time it will take care of itself.
We secretly applaud the man who shoots a cheater at cards.
What has entered the physical world can not be undone.
What is done is done, and what will be will be.
What temptations do I respond to and spend time, money, and energy satisfying?
When blocked on one opportunity, choose another one to pursue.
When buying anything, verify the quality with inspections.
When gold speaks, everybody’s listening.
When in doubt, leave it out; it refers to salt and commentary.
When it’s time to bring in the crops, work from dawn to sunset.
When lightning strikes nearby, thieves keep their hands in their own pockets.
When the danger has passed, God is forgotten.
When the danger has passed, people stop praying.
When the hounds are gone, the fox is a happy king.
When the judge accuses, the defendant suffers.
When the snake is dead, its poison won’t attack you.
When the sun is high, your only shadow is under your feet.
When two cowards meet, the one who blinks first loses.
When you have been deceived, search for your susceptible temptations.
When you sleep through the event, you lose everything.
Where there is nothing to gain, only time is at risk.
Where there’s life, there is hope that things will get better.
Who knows the most has the most to sort through before he can make a decision.
Who will not rule his rudder will be ruled by the rocks.
Whoever seeks a quarrel will soon find one.
Whoever suffers from love can feel no other pain.
With patience, you can apply your knowledge.
Write down what an honest person suggests, although you don’t like it.
Years and sins are glorified if they are long past.
Yes and no are the essential words in any language.
Yielding is often the best way of succeeding.
You can choose your life to be a pleasant dream or a frightening nightmare.
You can not write down a meaningful silence without a surrounding matrix.
You can take it or leave it, or leave.
You don’t go to heaven in a carriage but a coffin.
You get where you’re going quicker if you ask experienced people.
You must balance bold with careful with your every act.
You must open your mouth wide to eat a peach.
You want lots of people with you in Paradise or Hell.

Tanzanian Proverbs for playing the Aphors Game

16 Sunday Jan 2022

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A big tree falls when and where it will.
A farmer may eat weeds when it’s a bad season.
A freeloader is a quiet thief.
A good name glows in the night.
A human is capable of everything possible to them.
A kind word plants a flower in both our hearts.
A little bird chooses little twigs for their nest.
A lot can be hidden in a big house.
A loving heart is an eager heart.
A mother is the best thing ever created by man.
A mother protects her boy from everyone who seeks to use him.
A mother’s love is forever and ever.
A mother’s milk carries the most nourishment and love.
A person with a streak of good luck shouldn’t forget their necessities.
A promise is a debt in addition to an obligation.
A quarrelsome person should be ashamed of bothering others for attention.
A refugee is a person looking for a meaningful life.
A sheep bleats because it has a problem right where it stands.
A stranger didn’t grow up here and therefore can never get the feelings right.
A wife calls a man’s other women branches.
Accept a gift as a gift.
After a hard time there comes an easier one.
As you are sharing your gossip I will share mine.
Be careful what you say, because even flies have ears.
Be cautious of a man carrying a stick.
Be the one who brings contentment to the gatherings.
Beat a drum of enthusiasm, not the child.
Beauty means little; it is the actions that matter.
Being poor makes it difficult to boast, but where there’s a will there’s a way.
Believe that God wants to bring you good things.
Better to endure a delay and get there safely.
Charity comes from the heart, not the cash.
Children need a happy, healthy life to find wisdom.
Children’s rights are first among equals.
Clouds are the bringers of rain.
Delicious food is eaten with relish.
Discord between neighbors creates discord for the whole neighborhood.
Do not make clothing for unborn children.
Don’t be surprised with people’s gossip; it is human nature to talk.
Don’t even listen to gossip, it will ruin your relationships with people.
Don’t forget effort. Every person has luck, both good and bad.
Don’t give away an useful old item for a borrowed one.
Don’t help a child who is comfortable with his task.
Don’t love me on sight, because that’s an insignificant part of me.
Don’t mend your neighbor’s fence before mending your own.
Don’t mention outside secrets at home.
Don’t say everything, and leave something for others to comment upon.
Eating is a family affair, even when there are visitors at your table.
Eating what comes from your personal labors is satisfying.
Education is an ocean that no one can fully appreciate.
Effort will enhance your belief that what you are doing is important.
Empty pots make the loudest noise.
Even accidents have precursors.
Even honey has limits to its pleasures.
Even if you dislike me for saying it, I will tell you the truth as I see it.
Even if you try and steal my husband, I’m not worried.
Even Jesus on the cross didn’t ask for pity.
Even the straightest arrow has some curves.
Even though we are separated, our past together is with us forever.
Even the pillow you sleep on has ears and will repeat what you say.
Events have a natural flow, as the days of the week.
Every bee defends their hive with their life.
Every boat makes its own waves.
Every dance is improved by cheering.
Every day is a good one for our marriage.
Every devil has his favorite spot to pick wounds.
Everything has an end, especially the beginning.
Find a way so your worker wants to see the project finished perfectly.
Finished work is the measure of a craftsman.
Good behavior will pull you through many problems.
Good luck begins early in the morning with a good breakfast.
Good things sell themselves, bad ones need salesmen.
Grand events forecast of themselves to those who know how to see.
He who digs a pit for another will never get out of it himself.
He who loves and trusts God will have bountiful rewards.
He who nurses a vengeance will suffer forever.
He’s a friend to the eye, but a hypocrite in action.
Help me help others.
How did you know this about me if you didn’t sneak behind my back?
Hurried work satisfies no one.
Hypocrites choose to love themselves because they are hypocrites.
Hypocrites have their place in the world.
I am not paying you for your work, I am giving a reward for the good work you have done.
I am on my daily healthy walk, and don’t want to be sickened with gossip.
I can’t find love and I grow hungry, thin and weak.
I count on my work rather than my beauty, because my good and bad luck balance.
I depend on my ability to earn a living, and don’t rely on luck.
I don’t have ambition, I have goals.
I don’t laugh at you, I am laughing with you.
I don’t seek greetings that aren’t followed with a conversation.
I endure the afflictions that come my way and cure them as best I can.
I have desires to help my family and friends.
I have grown so used to your obnoxious behavior that I ignore it.
I have my wife and you have yours and we are all happy.
I have nothing to give except prayers.
I have scorned those things and will not forget.
I have thought for a long time that you were a good neighbor.
I knew that you would eventually come to this conclusion.
I live like a doctor and am very careful around trouble.
I may be a lowly person, but I will never lie.
I may not be pretty, but I will only live with one who loves me.
I never beg, but if you give me something I will accept it graciously.
I never worry because God takes care of everything.
I’m not jealous, when I feel happy for you rather than me.
If you want to eat honey, follow the bees to their home.
If a little is enough, it’s plenty.
If backbiting made money, more people would be rich.
If I don’t talk as much, you will get better answers for yourself.
If I have what you love under my control, you are my slave.
If you are going to steal a pig, steal a big one and share it with everyone.
If you carry your water, you will learn to get several uses out of each drop.
If you don’t recognize where you are you soon will.
If you have anything, be thankful for what you have.
If you just show off, rather than do something, you will soon get bored.
If you love me, you will be so happy to be with me that no one can replace me.
If you marry a woman with children you must love them as your own children.
If you obey the laws, you will not be injured by the laws.
If you see a rumor monger, stay away from them or you will become a victim.
If you see an arrow, there will be hunters looking for it.
If you wait too long, the child can’t be yours.
In the real world two equals two.
Intention and purpose are temporary, but character is forever.
Invest because paper savings rot as the printers of cash print a little extra for themselves.
It is a waste of your time and energy to argue with a fool.
It is better a quiet curtain than a flag being shaken in the air.
It is better to be bit by a snake than hatred.
It is easier to live happily if you identify gossipers and avoid them.
It is God that sustains the sinner.
It is less painful to lose an eye than to lose your heart.
It takes two fingers to catch a louse.
It’s better to stub your toe and curse the pain than your friend and cause them pain.
It’s difficult to cope with two hyenas.
Jealousy is a cold poison that kills its owner.
Just getting a new pot doesn’t mean you should toss the old one away.
Knowledge is wealth that can be shared, but wisdom is inside.
Laughing with the evildoers make you one of them.
Learn to obey your parents and you will easily blend with society.
Leprosy is an ugliness that fades with time.
Let the natural things flow and adapt to their ways.
Let us each solve our own problems, and let others solve theirs themselves.
Let’s enjoy the sweetness of the honey and ignore the sting of the bee.
Let’s love each other and avoid the ugly gossip.
Let’s pray for one another’s happiness and help it to exist.
Let’s stay together so the children have a family.
Liars are often successful or they wouldn’t be able to continue lying.
Life is like a card game, and you must play with what you get.
Life is a wonderful gift, so make the best of it.
Lions aren’t the only things with claws.
Lord grant me the ability to get what I need.
Lover, turn off the light and let’s us sleep together.
Marriage needs many easily available things to be happy.
Me and you together forever.
Neither good nor bad luck blows a warning whistle.
No one lives without doing something, because boredom hurts and kills.
One tree doesn’t make a forest, but it’s a start.
One who loves doesn’t seek revenge.
One thousand begins with one.
Only the injured person feels their pain.
Oppression isn’t good for any of the people involved.
Peace is more coupled with justice than war.
People will discover what you say behind their backs and you never know what will happen.
Perfect beauty has attractive flaws.
Persist; even a rope can saw through stones.
Some of us start as fools and become wise through experience.
Talking to yourself is talking to someone who understands your problems.
Thank you for your good deeds directed toward me.
The benefit of living a long life is you get to see many things.
The best fertilizer on the farm is the shadow of the caring farmer.
The careful person doesn’t stub their toes.
The grapevines are yours, so wait until the fruit is just right.
The greatest enemy of a man is groups of other men.
The healthy people claim that health is better than wealth, and vice versa.
The lies of the landlord are his personal truths.
The lion that goes slowly gets closer to his dinner.
The medicine for malaria is quinine, for wickedness is excess alcohol.
The messenger often doesn’t know the message he carries.
The mother is queen of her chessboard.
The mouth is the home of words and obesity.
The ocean was made by raindrops.
The one whom you often think is the right one is the worst one.
The patient person eats better prepared dinners.
The tailor doesn’t choose the cloth, but does choose the thread.
The wife is the bedroom’s delight.
The world is full of knowledge if you can understand its language.
There are always interesting things to discover.
There are no secrets between three people.
There is a leader of the flock of sheep, but you are the guide of the leader.
There is always the possibility of more good coming our way.
Think seriously about what you are going to do about diseases.
Those with an unearned windfall of cash are encouraged to spend recklessly.
Time flies by, so fly to Mecca.
To be without a friend is the worst kind of poverty.
To get lost is to learn a new way home.
To give is something of the heart, and it’s not money, but care.
To give is the giving of savings, so you are giving a person something worth saving.
To leave your culture leaves you a slightly bewildered slave to circumstance.
To much complaining is counterproductive.
Too many ideas means you must chose the relevant ones.
Travel around your duties to see them more fully.
Unknown information is the most prized thing possessed by king.
Walking slowly is not the same as carefully.
WELCOME! Friends.
What beats a fool is what teaches him to obey facts.
What eats at you is mostly inside of your clothes.
What you say is often the exact opposite of what gets done.
When the cat’s away, the mice form a democracy.
When we look at a bouquet, we search for the most perfect flower.
When you see a farmer working, remember to praise him for bringing us food.
Where the truth is spoken clearly, lies hide.
Who goes purposefully toward their personal goal gets there on schedule.
Whoever ridicules a good man’s actions will be swamped with his own evil.
Why do so many people call questionable people brother?
Willingly jumping into cold water is exhilarating.
You are my friend, and I am yours.
You are not a good person if you don’t recognize good deeds.
You can see a lot from right where you live.
You occasionally notice how beautiful your wife is, but you frequently feel her love.
You said it wouldn’t happen, but it has happened.
Your hostile words are your most formidable enemy.
Your injuries are good, as they remind you that you’re not invulnerable.
Your joy is my joy, and my joy is your joy.
Your possessions are being cared for so your children can prosper.
Your words do not bother me, because I understand their motivations.

Probaway – Life Hacks

~ Many helpful hints on living your life more successfully.

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