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This chart needed to have a larger space to grow. I hope the lines on this two-year expansion look absolutely flat. That would indicate the pandemic is over.

South African Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

BRIEFLY – Motivation Africa – Parade – Special Dictionary – TUKO

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1. We may fly to eminence, but we eventually come down to Earth.
2. A blind man gives money to his child to buy light bulbs.
3. A boy who asks who killed his father may seal his own fate.
4. A chattering bird isn’t occupied building its nest.
5. A chick that will grow into a cock can be identified at hatching.
6. Only a young child and a fool will tell their truth.
7. A man walking alone is terrified at the sight of a snake.
8. A cow gives more milk to a known friend.
9. A man, like a crocodile, has his favorite places.
10. A dying man suffers most over his missed opportunities.
11. A family withers without the guidance of a good woman.
12. A feeble effort will not fulfill a grand ambition.
13. A fish and a bird may become friends but never lovers.
14. A fool always has an abundance of things to say about everything.
15. A fool cannot untie a monkey knot.
16. A fool is a practicing teacher of what not to do.
17. A good friend walks in when others walk out.
18. A helpful man takes some load off struggling men’s backs.
19. A loving man’s grave gets flowers long after he died.
20. Graves must never be dug until the person theyare for dies.
21. A happily married man still loves that girl he married.
22. A house without a woman is a drafty pile of boards.
23. A horse has four legs yet can easily break one by turning too quickly.
24. A lie has infinite amplifications, but the truth is boringly simple.
25. A man is described by his character, regardless of his status.
26. A man who shows respect for great people becomes associated with them.
27. A man expressing passion is afraid of thinking unfamiliar thoughts.
28. A man is ruined by his former lies.
29. When you succeed, help those who helped you succeed.
30. Many unnamed trickles form a mighty river.
31. A roaring lion is sending a message to back away and when he looks at you, back away.
32. Fruits don’t ripen because a chimp stares at them.
33. A stupid action forecasts a messy problem.
34. The hard joint of a sugarcane is its sweetest place.
35. A termite lives in dry wood, and yet it is moist itself.
36. We treat friendly travelers with kindness, as we hope to be treated when we travel.
37. A tree is named for its fruits.
38. A wise man fills his head with thoughts before he speaks.
39. You don’t often fall when paying attention and rarely on the same kind of surface.
40. A forethoughtful person doesn’t say inappropriate things.
41. An experienced person knows the way to solve specific problems.
42. A woman who has lost a child is hesitant to give a baby a name.
43. A woman with many children knows how to raise a good child.
44. Abundance spreads slowly, but famine strikes quickly like a fist.
45. A plan told clearly generates conflicting goals from outsiders.
46. We need to define our own problems and find our own solutions.
47. We have our ways of raising happy children and productive adults.
48. After doing a foolish deed comes remorse at the injuries, but not the deed.
49. When at the top of a mountain, remember the shrubs that helped you climb.
50. All the monkeys can’t hang from a single branch without it breaking.
51. Almost eating leaves, a hungry person almost starving.
52. Always carry a hip flask of whiskey in case of snake bite, and a small snake as a backup.
53. You need to practice having hope for coming hopeless situations.
54. A polite person saves their farts for the latrine.
55. A lie that escaped can’t be hidden within a pile of truths.
56. A loiter waits for a kick, but a quail waits for a stick.
57. While the children sleep, their mother is preparing their meals.
58. When nesting birds die, their eggs rot.
59. Be considerate of other people’s problems before you laugh at them.
60. Before doing something, consider the results.
61. Before you milk a cow, give it some hay and put on the kick stopper.
62. Behold the iguana puffing itself up to scare a man.
63. It is reasonable to be cautious thousands of times rather than dead once.
64. Some things are easily done by a group that are impossible to do alone.
65. Pounding and messaging dough will help the bread to rise.
66. By the time the fool has learned to play, the other players have gone home.
67. A cow will not attack its owners.
68. Children are like bamboo and grow up fast.
69. Give yourself congratulations every time you succeed at doing something.
70. Confiding a secret to a gossiper is like carrying rice in a bag with a hole.
71. Conversation with understanding brings cooperation as it solves problems.
72. One dawn is enough to wake up an enthusiastic person.
73. A shroud is the clothing everyone must eventually wear.
74. Death is a perfect thief that steals everything you value.
75. A person’s death may be the only time their name makes it into a newspaper.
76. Satisfy your desires before you get too old or die.
77. Do good things for those you wish to be your friends.
78. Do things right away and upgrade when possible.
79. Do not call a dog with an angry command or a stick in your hand.
80. Don’t call your home a jungle.
81. Don’t disparage someone who helped you once.
82. Correcting the cause of the fault will eliminate the problem.
83. Avoid all battles, but especially ones you are certain to lose.
84. Don’t look at where you fell, but where you were before you slipped.
85. Don’t meddle with other people’s problems unless clearly asked to help.
86. Don’t let a first impression ruin a whole relationship with things or people.
87. Do not treat your spouse like a swinging door.
88. Don’t imitate someone unless you want to be treated like them.
89. Don’t watch a girl too closely as you never know who will marry her and think ill of you.
90. Don’t do anything you will need an excuse to justify.
91. Don’t navigate through your life following someone else’s star.
92. Avoid being so in love with anything you never notice the rain.
93. Don’t dirty the spring while getting your drinking water.
94. Don’t forget those who cheered you to your success.
95. Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because you don’t see any.
96. Don’t disparage a lover’s needs, or you will create a lifelong problem.
97. Challenging the words of your teacher helps you understand their wisdom.
98. Each seed waits patiently for its time to be sowed, watered, and warmed with sunshine.
99. Do everything to create understanding and cooperation with your people.
100. Clear out people from your organization who create discord.
101. An archer loves his arrows and bow, and by implication, killing animals.
102. Even nonpoisonous snakes benefit by appearing poisonous.
103. Snakes should be afraid of snakes.
104. Even lions must defend themselves from flies.
105. Even our abject maid has a family.
106. The sun doesn’t need a rooster to help it rise.
107. All love is love, but self-love is most loved by the lover.
108. Everyone thinks of themselves and their achievements as important.
109. All living things have their comfort zone and are seeking to improve it.
110. Everyone has uncorfortable moments, even in their comfortable home.
111. Everyone plays their part in making the world a better place.
112. Examine the facts and applications and who is promoting them.
113. False hopes kill more people than honest truths.
114. First comes a foolish act, and then a foolish response.
115. For every snake, there is a way to climb up and down.
116. To solve a big problem, you must break it into little solvable problems
117. Getting married is putting a snake in our pocket.
118. Give advice when asked, and let your friend suffer the consequences.
119. Give every task the effort it deserves, no more or less.
120. Every situation comes with results, with which you should be prepared to cope.
121. Everything takes time, and it is wise to learn how to wait.
122. Great things are done while fools are distracted by blowing wind.
123. Success isn’t a lucky mistake.
124. Growing old teaches a some people to see causes and effects.
125. Growth involves dragging your companions along.
126. Habits are formed to defeat first impressions.
127. Having great conversations isn’t like having money it’s the pay for having mental riches.
128. Having excellent foundations is a good beginning for a great career.
129. He has the brain of a beetle.
130. He’s so poor he eats rotten meat and endures the sickness.
131. He may say he loves you, but wait and see what he does to show it.
132. He who will cheat you at a game will cheat you at everything.
133. He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well pull the dirt in on himself.
134. None of us knows everything, and a beggar will do better in a forest at night than a rich man.
135. He who eats alone is choosing to die alone.
136. He who has no intelligence or learning is happy with his condition.
137. He who has been bitten by a snake fears spaghetti.
138. He who loves you will still love you when you’re covered with garden dirt.
139. He who refuses to obey can never be given command of others.
140. Helping a child to discover things that interest them is more important than giving facts that will bore them.
141. Dishonesty is the art of war because it lures the enemy into a killing zone.
142. Hope preserves life until the day when the hope is fulfilled.
143. Hope never kills directly, but it summons you along the paths to oblivion.
144. A stream that flows into the distant ocean is still the same water.
145. The night will end precisely the moment Earth’s momentum directs.
146. We are all descended from Africans.
147. I owe my whole being to the natural developments of the Universe.
148. If a woman doesn’t love you, she ignores you.
149. What makes people laugh is what is tickling their character.
150. If the monkey imitates everyone, he will drive your car away.
151. Calamities are like stormy weather, and they will drench everyone.
152. Love is a sickness that helps healthy people get things done.
153. If money grew on trees, people would have evolved prehensile feet.
154. You must seek wisdom to get it, and if you don’t use it, you wasted them time.
155. If a young man is busy doing nothing he should be sent to college where doing nothing is rewarded.
156. If the Moon fills you with love, why bother looking at the stars.
157. If there is no enemy in your heart, there can be no enemy out there.
158. If you fill your heart with pride, your mind will have no room for wisdom.
159. If you are looking for a fault with your food, you are done eating.
160. If you are unable to do something, do something else.
161. If you refuse to see facts, the facts will find you and poke you in the butt.
162. If you complain about reality, people will recognize you as a fool.
163. If you heal a person of an illness, anticipate their rejecting you because they have no way of staying balanced with you.
164. If you see a friend without a smile, lend him some of yours.
165. If you believe education is expensive, observe the costs of stupidity.
166. If you’re too small to do something significant, look at a Covid virus through a microscope.
167. If you want to know the future, look at the huge middle and project from there.
168. If your butt is getting hit repeatedly, you should suspect that you’re doing something wrong.
169. In a herd of cattle running from wolves, it’s best to be in the middle.
170. We must use foresight to know when to build dams and when to build bridges.
171. Home is always where the heart is.
172. It is better to be loved than to be feared, but that is in the other person’s heart, and it’s their choice of response to your qualities.
173. It is best to live the life you have been given and enjoy its benefits.
174. It generates health to select reasonable goals for your pursuits.
175. All work is good work if it satisfies your needs, and you don’t forget to live and play.
176. It was hunger that killed the man with too many wives to take care of him.
177. It makes sense to be extra careful if you have had a series of failures.
178. I can’t prevent dawn tomorrow so I will welcome it.

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Thai Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

– Into Asia – Joy of Museums – Ling-app – Phanganist – Proverbicals – Thai-language – Thai Pod 101 – Wikiquote

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1. A centipede will run over a cripple.
2. A few good friends are all the friends you need.
3. A husband loves his wife’s cooking till his dying day.
4. A man looks at the moon as powerless as a rabbit.
5. A man of many words and few deeds is a garden full of weeds.
6. A moment of anger may ruin your life forever.
7. A mosquito’s bite is more dangerous than a tiger’s.
8. A potential genius is born, but it’s his actions that make him a genius.
9. A rotten fish ruins the whole catch.
10. A sharp word or arrow does its job, and the sender becomes hated.
11. A slippery fish won’t swim into your open hand.
12. A thin stick can wedge a log into place.
13. A tiger gets in your face, but angry dogs circle to your back.
14. A virtuous deed provides soothing sleep.
15. A woman’s body is her personal property.
16. A woman’s heart is as mobile as water on a lotus leaf.
17. Above all, you must live to tell the tale, so others can learn.
18. All husbands who obey their wives are successful.
19. Always be careful of the road and the people on your travels.
20. Always have a reserve of water for desperate moments.
21. An honest man gets the help he needs, but a dishonest one must have ready cash to get help.
22. An overly sweet tongue hides a sour heart.
23. As I build my walls higher, I suffer more pain.
24. Avoid being in bad company as you will only increase their number.
25. Avoid the public gaze by putting your gold leaf on the back of the Buddha statue.
26. Avoid thinking you are sick before you have a fever.
27. Bald men comb their hair with their palms.
28. Be hesitant to show a beautiful weapon.
29. Better you fall from a slip of your foot than of your tongue.
30. Bring a machete when you go into the jungle.
31. Buddhist holy days sprinkle the calendar with devotions.
32. Character more than clothes makes the man.
33. Confess with a priest and die every week for the rest of your life.
34. Demonstration of ability is the highest kind of self-praise.
35. Disasters make heroes out of a few that we thought were common people.
36. Don’t believe anything you hear or see without verifiable evidence.
37. Don’t criticize anyone’s belief.
38. Don’t eat foods far from their proper dates.
39. Don’t eat in a friend’s house and then poop on the roof.
40. Don’t expose your guts to vultures.
41. Don’t find lice and put them on your head.
42. Don’t invite a fox to the hen house for dinner.
43. Don’t poke your nose where other noses are breathing heavily.
44. Don’t poop in a beautiful place under a shade tree.
45. Don’t rely on anyone besides yourself and your spouse.
46. Don’t spill blood until all the ravens are well out of sight.
47. Don’t stir our quiet water and make it muddy again.
48. Even monkeys sometimes fall from trees.
49. Even the lowest of workers chooses his boss.
50. Even the most beautiful rose withers and dies.
51. Every bird builds a nest conforming to its needs.
52. Everyone has problems with obvious solutions.
53. Evil comes to those who think evil thoughts.
54. Finishing anything is preferable to doing nothing.
55. Forethought can turn uncertainty for others into an opportunity for you.
56. Forgiving a hurtful action is a gift to them, and forgetting that person is a gift to yourself.
57. Friends for dinner are ubiquitous, but friends for life are rare.
58. Give up the little things to acquire the big ones.
59. Go to the city where people don’t greet you, and watch them with both eyes.
60. Gold has been found many times wrapped in rags.
61. Gold that falls into your hand never dims.
62. Good things will come back to you if you do good work, but you only get okay rewards if you do mediocre work.
63. He escaped from the teeth of a tiger into the teeth of a crocodile.
64. He is building a barn after his cow was lost.
65. He who must eat the raw will be happy to eat the cooked.
66. Honesty brings riches, but trickery brings riches and ruin.
67. I value the older sister but desire the younger one.
68. If I move, I must eat, but if I stay still, I can sleep.
69. If my dog is a good judge of character and if he doesn’t love you, I won’t either.
70. If opportunity doesn’t knock, knock it.
71. If you acquire indigent friends, they will lead you astray, but you too will thrive if you have productive friends.
72. If you are going into the forest, bring an ax.
73. If you confront a small problem with anger, it will become a bigger problem.
74. If you don’t have enough water to put out a fire, keep your water for drinking.
75. If you face a big problem with analysis and goal-solving actions, it will be remembered as a solved small problem.
76. If you want to live a long, quiet life, live now as the elderly do.
77. If you want to win, you must be engaged in a juried game.
78. If your intentions are good, you will be happy and prosperous; if your intentions are bad, you will only experience difficulties.
79. In a country where people wink, you must wink.
80. In prosperous times, most people are friendly, but not one in twenty will be in difficult times.
81. It doesn’t matter what happens to my body as I am part of the eternal Universe and will thrive forever.
82. It is a burden not to know, but the burden is made lighter with true facts.
83. It is easy to pinch pennies and easy to go into debt buying a new house.
84. It is more tolerable to be a loved servant to an old man than an exploited slave to handsome youth.
85. It’s a waste of time to take coconuts to sell in a coconut orchard.
86. It’s cannibal to eat the donkey who made your daily life possible for years.
87. It’s crazy to dive for a needle dropped in the ocean.
88. Jealousy is lousy.
89. Killing time is destroying your part of the Universe.
90. Know your job like a duck knows his.
91. Lend a hand and help, or get out of the way.
92. Life is balanced with seven goods and seven bads.
93. Life is simple, if you don’t do things that bring problems.
94. Life is under control when you’re a big fish in a little pond.
95. Light your candle before you enter the cave.
96. Like an ant near food, it’s a natural reflex to take valuable things.
97. Living in a peaceful land gives rise to happy people.
98. Living simply requires the least expenditure of time and energy.
99. Look at the cloth or potential friend before committing money or time.
100. Losing a little money is preferable to losing reputation.
101. Losing something allows you to earn it again.
102. Love makes the world spin around.
103. Maintain proper proportions and don’t ride in with an elephant to catch a grasshopper.
104. Make a nook for a squirrel, and he will explore its possibilities.
105. Many minds have many thoughts, but few are supported with evidence.
106. Migrating birds don’t leave a trail.
107. Mindfulness of reality and forethought about its future help a wise person to avoid most problems.
108. Never mention family disputes to anyone, nor their problems at your home.
109. No good deed honored is free of adverse side effects, and therefore it demands punishment.
110. No one is too young or old to learn.
111. Old love that’s long ago and far away is easily forgotten when a new love is near.
112. One can compete in a race, but you can’t compete against natural reality.
113. One who touches pitch shall be defiled with stickiness.
114. Only a diamond can scratch a diamond.
115. Only a fool marries in haste and repents at leisure.
116. Our life depends on which truths we decide to believe.
117. People ignore their own death even when they are in graveyards.
118. Poor dancers don’t hear and feel the oboe and drum.
119. Pour salt into the ocean to make it saltier.
120. Preventing problems is easier than fixing them.
121. Put the Buddha heart into our heart.
122. Quickly fetch water while the fire is small.
123. Rich people have many postmortem relatives.
124. Science without forethought and conscience will ruin the soul.
125. She is now heartbroken but still alive and pretty.
126. Smart people are ubiquitous, but good people are rare.
127. Smoldering fires can create unexpected conflagrations.
128. Sometimes, we must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the rich.
129. Spending money on education is more profitable than shedding tears on love.
130. Stay out of the way of people doing things.
131. Strive to be as diligent as an ant.
132. Ten tongues spread a rumor but are worth less than two eyes that see.
133. The foolish die young, the wise die old.
134. The greedy will swoop in to steal money whenever money can be stolen.
135. The happiest people are givers who have helped those in need.
136. The older we get, the more obvious becomes our luck.
137. The one who wins the game is the chooser of the game to be played.
138. The past is fixed, but we can change today to make tomorrow better.
139. The road of life is short, so go slowly and enjoy the trip.
140. The selfish die alone even in a crowd of well-wishers.
141. The story of rice hidden in your attic is an enemy spread by envy.
142. The sweetness of candy is soon gone, but sweet words endure.
143. The way home may be rough and long, but it is always smooth enough to keep going.
144. The world’s secrets are there to be discovered.
145. There is a rainbow when the cloud’s rain is opposite of the sun.
146. There is no honor among thieves because they can not turn to the law.
147. Those outside a castle want in, and those inside want out.
148. Those who are timid in the jungle will boast of their courage at home.
149. Those with no sense of rhythm blame the drummer.
150. Time heals all living wounds, and wounds all living heels.
151. Time reveals a person’s character and its flaws.
152. To be perfect and never err is achieved by doing nothing.
153. To love me a little requires that you will love me forever.
154. Too full of courtesies is full of craftiness.
155. Use your intelligence to foresee the future and obtain what you need.
156. Use your wisdom, skills, foresight, and spies to gain victory without fighting.
157. Vaccines follow the tradition of like cures like, by preventing the disease.
158. Wait until the tree has fully fallen before you jump on it.
159. Walls have ears listening for your secrets and doors have keyholes.
160. We caught the thief carrying the hide and horns.
161. We more appreciate the flavor of salt when the soup is flat.
162. What was done secretly at night is self-evident in the day.
163. When a dog bites you, do not respond in kind because you will lose a dogfight.
164. When the cat is out, the mice are in.
165. When the flood recedes, the damage is seen.
166. When the ocean water floods ashore, quickly store some fresh water.
167. When visiting others’ homes, be helpful with the chores.
168. Where there is a sustained effort, there will be a success.
169. Whether we are sad or happy is how we choose to see reality.
170. Wine is like water; it can float a man’s boat or sink it.
171. Wise people listen to facts, and fools listen to popular music.
172. With one stump, you can make a good fire.
173. Work is the source of all human goods.
174. You are pouring the chili powder into the river to make it taste better.
175. You can better use the flowing wind to navigate than the flowing water.
176. You can’t buy reliable friends or certainty of health.
177. You may act generously to others without asking them first.
178. You must give something others value to get something you value more.
179. You never know the limits of what you can accomplish until you try.
180. You play the violin to soothe a buffalo while eating.
181. You will soon fit in a coffin no matter how great you are.
182. Your accent implies your language and your manner in your family.

English Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

Primary sources of these proverbs are from the web. They have been filtered through Grammarly and adjusted for easier application to the Aphor Game for the invention of new ideas.

English Study Here – For my students – Medievalists – Phrasemix – Wikiquote – Wow 4 U

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1. A bicycle rider must control many other things.
2. A chain, rope, thread, or group relies on its weakest part.
3. A friend in deed is a friend forever.
4. A good beginning enables a good middle.
5. A Leonardo is worth more than a first folio of Shakespeare.
6. A little slip-on ice reminds you of your Yaktrax.
7. A man feels as old as the woman with him.
8. A penny invested is earning money.
9. A perfectly behaved person is charming for a little while.
10. A robin catches worms all day long.
11. A spew of words won’t fill a basket with figs.
12. A stitch will save your shirt.
13. Absinthe makes hallucinations grow stronger.
14. Actions speak more clearly than words.
15. After a storm comes the future.
16. All good, bad, and otherwise come to an end.
17. All humanity is interacting as a bubbling pot.
18. An apple a day isn’t enough.
19. An unwatched pot always boils over.
20. Ask a silly question, and you never know what you will get.
21. At every level, similar things associate with their kind.
22. Beauty is attractive of attention, like danger.
23. Beggars choose to beg.
24. Bent coins jam the Coke machines.
25. Better a few moments early than late.
26. Bringing alternate realities into opposition is the origin of inventions.
27. Cleanliness overdone prevents the development of resistance.
28. Clothes influence people’s response to the person inside.
29. Counting chicken eggs assumes some of them will produce twins.
30. Critical words hurt more people than swords.
31. Curiosity kills more mice than cats.
32. Curses love their speakers and move into their souls.
33. Discretion permits courage to succeed.
34. Do appropriate preparations to cross the bridge ahead.
35. Do as I say, not as I do, or you will get punished and become a teacher.
36. Don’t judge by appearances but by actions.
37. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
38. Don’t save your money because inflation is built into the system.
39. Don’t say anything that can be construed as criticism.
40. Don’t screw up success.
41. Dropping a basket of eggs doesn’t break them all.
42. Even the best fish stink when they are three days dead.
43. Every man for himself is said more often than it’s practiced.
44. Everything comes to those who work and wait.
45. Everything in the Universe is where it belongs.
46. Familiarity breeds children.
47. Few good things come to him who only waits.
48. Few things that glitter are gold.
49. Five unique heads are better than two similar ones when confronting new problems.
50. For most things, there is a reason for their season.
51. Fortune favors the thoughtful bold.
52. Free lunches come with free education attached.
53. Give a fool a rope, and he will not find a use for it and throw it away.
54. Give thanks for gifts and move on.
55. God helps everyone, but mostly those who help themselves.
56. Good and bad things come to those who wait and wait and wait.
57. Grasp no more than you and your hand needs.
58. Habits are formed to overrule natural responses.
59. Half a loaf of bread is usually enough to share.
60. He has a lot of leaves without any figs.
61. He that has intense desires feels needy and greedy.
62. He was last but not forgotten.
63. Hold your tongue today, and bite it tomorrow.
64. Honesty is the best policy except when telling the truth.
65. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and work for the attainable.
66. If a job is worth doing, get it done.
67. If wishes were fulfilled, the world would be crowded with dead people.
68. If you don’t enjoy ’em, walk away.
69. If you want it done to your specifications, try doing it yourself.
70. Immediately after a trauma, playing basketball restores your healthy mood.
71. In a storm, mighty oaks fall and stay down, but reeds spring back up.
72. In every life, a lot of rain will fall.
73. It is idle to think that names will never help or hurt you.
74. It is rare to find someone working for the common good.
75. Keep your friends close and your enemies tight.
76. Kilroy wasn’t here.
77. Laws catch gnats, but let wasps go free.
78. Learn to sing along with Dr. Seuss.
79. Learn to survive by observing the stupidities of fools.
80. Learn to walk before you climb.
81. Let sleeping lions lie.
82. Let what’s gone by remain bygones.
83. Living things eat living things for their food.
84. Look where you will be before you jump in.
85. Make of your life what you wish it to be.
86. Many backs make the heavy load light.
87. Many independent men with many different goals create chaos.
88. Measure the Webb many times in many ways and blast off once.
89. Misery loves to make others miserable for some companionship.
90. Not working in summer means not eating in winter.
91. Old birds or fish are not caught with trifles.
92. Old friends are best.
93. Omelets are made of broken eggs, not boiled eggs.
94. Open a book to a random middle page and read a paragraph.
95. Out of sight, sound, feel, smell, and taste is out of perception.
96. Patience combined with distractions cures what ails you.
97. People jump from one problem they have into a similar one.
98. People must move into stone castles if they throw stones.
99. Politeness creates harmony and is freely given.
100. Poverty isn’t a problem for the rich.
101. Practice makes routine doing into muscle memory.
102. Rome, like everything else, took every yesterday to create.
103. Self-done is easily undone.
104. Slow but sure works for turtles, but not so well for swallows.
105. Speak the truth, and the devil will bite you.
106. Squeaky wheels get greased before going to work.
107. That’s good enough for government work.
108. The best fish are the ones you have in your basket.
109. The blindest of the blind are those who hate reality.
110. The choice of the voters is only a suggestion to the government.
111. The function of money is to keep transactions going and going and going.
112. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
113. The internet is mightier than pen and paper.
114. The nearer the relationship the tighter the bond.
115. The very best one costs more than a great number of very good ones.
116. The whole universe is a blessing in disguise.
117. There are more devils in church than saints.
118. There is no time like the present, and there will never be again.
119. There will never be a replacement for home.
120. They are hand in glove in love.
121. They were looking up at us like canned sardines.
122. Things gone past cannot be recalled, only remembered.
123. Those who live in an evil world have endured evil from within.
124. To bend iron, you must strike while it’s red hot.
125. To grow wiser, treat others as you wish them to treat you.
126. To mature, children must be seen and heard.
127. To see a man’s character, give him a little power.
128. Too much extreme pleasure has a painful end.
129. True beauty goes to the bone.
130. True words are often spoken in jest.
131. Two cooks are too many for two broths.
132. Two wrongs don’t make a right turn, but three left turns do.
133. Unearned plenty generates rotting luxury.
134. We are all laughing when we are all laughing at ourselves.
135. We judge by first sight and remember how we felt when we left.
136. We must row our boat with the oars we have in our hands.
137. When asses point their ears at you, they’re eavesdropping.
138. When feeding wild animals, notice they are careful not to bite your hand.
139. When in Rome, all roads lead away.
140. When in Rome, do as the Romans and speak Italian.
141. When it’s a forced choice between evils, choose the easiest to explain.
142. When the cat’s away, the mice play Monopoly.
143. When the going gets tough, the tough get rough.
144. When you give a gift to someone, they become your friend.
145. Where the goal is visible, we will find a way.
146. Where you sow, plow, water, weed, and wait, you might reap.
147. Whoever laughs at another’s wounds beckons them to himself.
148. You are never too old to learn, BINGO.
149. You can bring water to a drunk, but you can’t make him drink it.
150. You can pick through any man’s trash to find your treasures.
151. You can’t always get what you need to survive.
152. You dropped the bucket of eggs, and it’s time to make omelets.
153. You must be in self-control to properly control others.

Mongolian Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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1. A donkey recognizes the trail of a horse.
2. A fool who works is more valuable than a prince who dithers.
3. A fox will starve, waiting for an ox’s testicles to fall into his mouth.
4. A head can’t be happy unless his owner’s hands are happy.
5. A hero acts and often fails but acts decisively.
6. A man’s happiness lies in the freedom of the open steppes.
7. A needle in need of work is more desirable than an obese camel.
8. A warrior’s greatest fulfillment is when subduing his enemy.
9. A wolf pack will chase you down if you steal their cub.
10. A woman who can keep a house in order can keep a country in order.
11. Actions became part of the past of natural reality, and altering the recorded words doesn’t change it.
12. All those who cooperate are welcome, and all others are annihilated.
13. Although he often lives in mud, he beholds the bright stars in the pure sky.
14. An artwork has little value until it is finished and signed.
15. An ordinary man may fail seven times and become a hero on the eighth rising.
16. Anger-driven behavior creates a sequence of retaliation.
17. Away from the support of your comrades, you can be caught and easily killed.
18. Bad dogs can’t hold pure butter.
19. Be sincere, always be genuine.
20. Catching a wild horse is more manageable than retrieving a wild word.
21. Cats like fresh fish, but they never go fishing.
22. Check everywhere for a lost thing before you ask for help.
23. Choose to be the thinking head of a wasp rather than the shit-on tail of a lion.
24. Conquering the world is easy compared to governing it.
25. Dawn will come without your help.
26. Don’t be like the mouse that hanged itself for no good reason.
27. Don’t let the butter that’s in your mouth slip out.
28. Don’t loosen your resolve until you close the door from the inside.
29. Don’t poke your eye out, clearing a speck.
30. Even sewer water will put out a fire.
31. Every child is born into our community with the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky.
32. Every group creates half-truths that help bind them together.
33. Every idiot can ask questions that are impossible to answer.
34. For our good people, we have cooperation, but for our fools, a stick.
35. Friends are permitted, even encouraged, to do things you wouldn’t.
36. Genghis Khan said God sends me to clean the earth of you because of your misuse of it.
37. Genghis beckons you to come and take a sip of destruction.
38. Get off your ass and knees and stand up for yourself.
39. Greed makes a man feel poor, and getting more stuff makes him feel more desperate.
40. He gets out of trouble like a duck getting out of the water, dry and clean.
41. He was only a fingertip short of being crazy.
42. He who drinks too much dies, and he who drinks too little also dies.
43. He who wants to build high must dig a deep foundation.
44. He’s a sad dog that can only watch an antelope eat.
45. I prefer to give food and life to our dogs rather than their dogs.
46. If a man’s mind is clean, his fate will be good.
47. If he hid the truth so well, it must have been significant enough to hide.
48. If the man tries, the fates will strive.
49. If the tree didn’t exist, the magpie wouldn’t have a perch for its nest.
50. If we bell a wild tiger, he will starve.
51. It is not good enough to win, but everyone who opposed me must be killed.
52. It would help if you adapted to where you go, as everything is different there.
53. It’s better to break bones than spirits.
54. Keep relatives far away and friendly, and water and fuel near.
55. Keep your attention pointed at the goal, and it will come, perhaps slowly but easily.
56. Knowledge is our most precious tool, and by controlling it, we can define our goals.
57. Look to the gold that your hands can make when you’re penniless.
58. Lords hate those who distract the people by publicizing false truths.
59. Lungs have no fat, and they won’t make lard.
60. Maintain your stable character day and night.
61. Men and fish see only the bait and not the hooks.
62. Natural truths can never be annihilated or ignored.
63. No friend is closer than your well-nourished heart.
64. Once you are in your locked home, you are the king of your world.
65. Other people may help you, but your character is your greatest helper.
66. Our cleaning dirty dishes takes away the remains of our happiness.
67. Pay attention to the good in the good that you do.
68. Prepare the pails before you begin milking the cows.
69. Search for a needle in the sand with a strong magnet.
70. Some men walk through a crowded city and see no friends.
71. The difference between heaven and hell is where you choose to place your attention.
72. The eye sees nothing when the mind isn’t looking.
73. The greatest treasure is wisdom, the next is children, and the lowest is stuff.
74. The greedy dog hoards more bones than he can gnaw.
75. The lamb not totally sated bleats like a starving sheep.
76. The last camel loaded carries the most junk.
77. The merit of your existence is in your response to your problems.
78. The more arguments you hear, the harder it is to decide.
79. The North Star is found at night that is lost in the day.
80. The other guy’s grass isn’t always greener; sometimes it’s browner.
81. The strength of a wall is only as strong as those fighting to have it.
82. The winner has many fair-weather friends, but the loser has loyal friends.
83. There is less harm in splitting a bone than your character.
84. There’s no need to shelter under felt when the rain is gone.
85. They are drowning in the river by running from the fire.
86. They will flee from the fangs of a wolf into the jaws of a tiger.
87. Throw a rock straight up, and it will hit you.
88. To be a successful ruler, you must know everything about everyone.
89. Tough food is tender when you’re hungry, but pudding is tough when you’re satiated.
90. Truth is like the air we breathe, ubiquitous but invisible.
91. Two bears in one cave will not sleep well.
92. Ultimately, you have no companions but your shadow.
93. Unifying men to a common goal is the path to success.
94. Violence never settles anything; it settles everything.
95. We all sleep on pillows, but we have different dreams.
96. We must rule people according to their situations.
97. We prefer to suffer freedom in the wide open than to delight in the captivity of rigid streets.
98. We take from our enemies everything they value.
99. We will endure our own wilderness life of hardships rather than grovel to your arbitrary laws.
100. When a calf hits adolescence, he thinks he can make bull shit.
101. When afraid, don’t take that first step, but focus on the task and then start with the conviction to finish it.
102. When our common goal binds us together, we will conquer our enemies and be happy.
103. When you are sick, repair your health, but when you are healthy, improve your wisdom, and when wise, help humanity survive.
104. When you drink water, follow the local safety customs.
105. When you sit, don’t just sit, but polish something, like your mind.
106. Where wood is scarce, dinner is eaten in hand, but the dead still get coffins.
107. While talking with a blind man, think like a blind man.
108. While your father is alive, please get to know his friends.
109. While your horse is strong, travel and see places and meet people.
110. Willingness to serve outweighs money, and loyalty outweighs everything.
111. Wise men talk about ideas, scientists about facts, and hungry men about food.
112. Wolves come out during the rain and other troubled times.
113. You are rich if you have no debts and fortunate if you have no disabilities.
114. You mind your own business, and I’ll mind mine.
115. You must rely on the natural reality and your character to be consistent.
116. You seek to live in luxury and have become foolish slaves to that idle vision of life.
117. You will add four nights by taking a shortcut.
118. Yours is seven, and mine is only seven, and your grass always looks greener.

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I was intending to quit doing these charts at the end of the year, but with Omicron going totally crazy it would be improper to stop now. So it will be necessary to make a wider chart and stretch these same lines more to the right side, but being such large numbers they will look flat even if the Omicron really takes off worldwide. As huge as the numbers are there are billions of people still at risk.

Scottish Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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1. A bad reaper doesn’t sharpen his sickle properly.
2. A bad wound may heal, but being named a coward will kill.
3. A black cat easily takes a contemptuous mouse.
4. A black hen lays fine white eggs.
5. A blind man has little use for a mirror.
6. A boaster never lives up to his boasts.
7. A brave foe is more to be honored than a cowardly friend.
8. A closed mouth stays out of trouble.
9. A cold needs a wise cook more than a doctor.
10. A dozen highlanders with a bagpipe make a noisy rebellion.
11. A dry summer never made a decent peck of wheat.
12. A fair exchange is made in the moment of truthfulness.
13. A few are happier living with themselves alone.
14. A fool and his money soon go their separate ways.
15. A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to make it grow.
16. A fragile child may be too indulged by his mother.
17. A friend by your side is more helpful than a distant brother.
18. A friend in deed is a friend forever.
19. A full wallet has many friends.
20. A garden located in a peaceful place gives more contentment than a palace on a peak.
21. A gloved cat catches only lazy mice.
22. A good tale bears many tellings.
23. A healthy diet prevents more problems that doctors can cure.
24. A house without a dog, cat, and child is a gloomy home.
25. A hungry man has a keen sense of smell for roasting meat.
26. A hungry stomach is always begging.
27. A kind word is as easily said as a cruel one.
28. A lazy man becomes a hungry man.
29. A light wallet makes a heavy face.
30. A man with a dog is a lion at his own door.
31. A man’s greatest fortune or misfortune is his wife.
32. A misty morning in Scotland becomes a clear day.
33. A new broom sweeps cleaner than a stubby one.
34. A nod from an honest man seals the deal.
35. A nod’s the same as a wink to a blind horse.
36. A one-eyed cat isn’t a good hunter.
37. A pastor can make a church or mill of the building.
38. A penny saved becomes next year’s seeds.
39. A plump widow makes a good companion.
40. A pound of worry won’t pay an ounce of debt.
41. A proud man without ready cash feels like a sick man.
42. A rich man’s search for a wife finds many cooperative women.
43. A rooster is the prince of his dunghill.
44. A secret exposed explodes in your face.
45. A table without bread is not dinner, but bread on a hand is a table enough.
46. A thieving hand will always find something to take.
47. A thread will bind an honest man’s word, but a chain won’t guide a rogue.
48. A turn well done keeps us on the right path.
49. A well-planted tree will grow tall and strong.
50. Accept the happiness and contentment that comes to you.
51. Across wind for one man is a happy one for another.
52. Adjust your daily clothing to the weather and your closet to the climate.
53. All’s well that lives well.
54. An experienced lawyer solves his problems outside the courts.
55. Bad things never come from good advice, but it takes a person of wisdom to recognize good advice.
56. Barkeeps must never gossip or even mention public events.
57. Barricade the fox out of your hen house
58. Be kind to yourself as well as to others.
59. Be slow beginning a friendship and slower to leave it.
60. Beggars take what they can get.
61. Better having the devil knocking at the door than at the dinner table.
62. Better to be alone for an hour than develop bad habits with fools.
63. Better to earn your living honestly than be lucky.
64. Birds of a feather fuck together.
65. Carelessness consumes more than thieves.
66. Choose your wife in the kitchen.
67. Come spring, it’s a new walk in the old field.
68. Common sense tells you to compensate for your flaws.
69. Confessed faults are only half-mended.
70. Confession is good for the soul but not for friendship.
71. Do as the lassies do and say “NO,” but accept the diamond ring.
72. Don’t abandon your god until you have a kinder one.
73. Don’t let your feet run out from under you.
74. Don’t take a second drink until April.
75. Double drinks suppress misery but make tomorrow’s worse.
76. Either be a man, a mouse, or a moose.
77. Every farmer loves his cow, and his cow gives him milk.
78. Every man’s story is good until the next one is better.
79. False friends are far more painful than bitter enemies.
80. Fine glasses and lasses are fragile and need care.
81. Folks would do little, for goodness sake, if the devil were dead.
82. Fools hope for a better tomorrow, but wise men work now to make tomorrow better.
83. For the starving, just enough is a feast.
84. Friends are lost by calling too often and too seldom.
85. Give a fool reasons not to do something, and he will do it.
86. Give a Scottsman an inch, and he’ll take an ell.
87. Good company on a train is worth the coach fare.
88. He goes barefoot that waits for dying men’s shoes.
89. He is an absolute slave to the one who is always watching him.
90. He that peeks through a keyhole may get spit in his eye.
91. He that teaches himself has a child for a teacher and a geriatric for a student.
92. He who lives upon idle hopes gets too thin to work.
93. He who marries a widow is made wretched compared to her real husband.
94. He who obeys the law benefits from its existence.
95. I see your nose as cheese with snarling pigs fighting to eat it.
96. If I had a dog as stupid as you, I would shoot him.
97. If the doctor cures, everyone cheers, but everyone has crocodile tears and cashes in if he kills.
98. If you can’t cure it, you must endure it.
99. If you can’t see the bottom of the stream, don’t wade in it.
100. If you have no manners, you will become a beggar.
101. If you want to live a quiet life, don’t marry a redhead with rocks in their head.
102. It’s a rotten cause that a lawyer won’t defend.
103. It’s a sad house where the hen is more powerful than the cock.
104. It’s healthier to wear out your shoe soles than bed sheets.
105. Judge your day by the planting and the harvest.
106. Lack of forethought gives your feet more work.
107. Laws catch nats, but wasps live free.
108. Learn young and remember; learn old and forget.
109. Listen to a cold wind howl from indoors.
110. Many a good story dies in the retelling.
111. Marrying doubles your duties and debts and halves your rights.
112. May you live as long as you can do some good for others.
113. Men of words, but no deeds are full of weeds.
114. Minutes are time’s arrows, and one is pointed to your heart.
115. Modesty makes a beautiful girl a princess.
116. Monday is only one of seven days of the week.
117. Money is better than my lord’s letter.
118. Money used to be flat, so you could carry more of it.
119. Never draw your knife when a punch in the nose will do.
120. Never marry for money when you can borrow it with less trouble.
121. No delight without risk.
122. None but a dog eats his fleas.
123. One drink per day lifts your spirit and lengthens your life.
124. One whisky is just right, but two is too much, and three is too few.
125. Open confession is good for the soul and bad for the family.
126. Pay a thief in his own medium with a dollar to the penny.
127. Pay attention to the boat, and the boat will pay attention to you.
128. Peace is the spring where joy springs forth.
129. Perfect love is in perfect balance.
130. Plenty of food makes for dainty portions.
131. Poverty may leave you cold and hungry, but evil will make you miserable.
132. Praise the bountiful day at bedtime.
133. Savings grow slowly, but investments grow exponentially.
134. Self-confidence and work are two-thirds of success.
135. Slippery is the step to a mansion-house front door.
136. Step aside from when a flood is coming your way.
137. Take an inch too much, and you’ll hang from a yardarm.
138. Take garlic, fresh-grass May butter, and white goats’ milk to heal winter diseases.
139. That bum licked the butter off my bread.
140. The better the day, the easier it is to do a good deed.
141. The big fish eat little fish and make themselves into food for little fish.
142. The day has the devil’s keen eyes and the night his ears.
143. The day to come seems more distant than last year.
144. The devil’s boots never squeak, so you never hear him coming.
145. The flying geese will tell you when it’s autumn.
146. The medicine that hurts the most warns you what to avoid.
147. The milk of goats gave strength to the past generations of Scotsmen.
148. There are no winners in a lawsuit, but one gets some money and an enemy.
149. There is keen competition between old fools.
150. There never was a five-pound note, but a ten-pound need for it was found.
151. There’s no cure for fear but do or die.
152. They complain about my drinking but never acknowledge my need.
153. They that smell least smell best.
154. They that sow trouble shall experience a tornado.
155. Things said in private must be hidden between your ears.
156. Those that live longest will see and enjoy the most.
157. Those who will not be helped can not be helped.
158. Three emotions that arrive without asking are love, jealousy, and fear.
159. Three more unbidden things are age, love, and rheumatism.
160. To grab what you can and clutch what you have makes you a miserable miser.
161. War makes thieves of honest men, and peace hangs them as criminals.
162. What may be done after a while will not be done before death.
163. What we first learn as children we apply as geriatrics.
164. When a door sticks tight, a window opens.
165. When confronted with a bad choice, choose the one with the best excuse.
166. When danger approaches, quietly vanish behind solid walls.
167. When the cup is full, carry it horizontally.
168. When the flu comes to one, it soon comes to everyone.
169. When the heart is full of emotion, the tongue will speak.
170. When wine sinks in, the words swim out.
171. When you practice deceit, you will live in a tangled web.
172. Where the law isn’t, vice is, and the only justice is vengeance.
173. While a person is in the flow, they never lose.
174. Who wants to lick honey from a comb must not fear stings.
175. Willful waste generates woeful want.
176. Wink at other’s little faults because you have bigger ones.
177. Wise men make appropriate jests, and the fools apply them inappropriately.
178. Without hope, most people would wither and die.
179. You must go to Rome to strive with the Pope, and suffer.
180. You must quickly turn back from a well-begun turn.
181. You must run away from the coast when waves rise on quiet water.
182. You never know a man well until you do business with him.
183. You will probably survive a danger, but never a disgrace.
184. You’re always better off cultivating an old love than planting a new one.

Irish proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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1. A bit of snuff at a funeral is okay if no one is sneezing in the snuff box.
2. A cat appears regal until it sees a dog.
3. A cat won’t give a King a second glance.
4. A day of fruitful work begins an evening of tasty recreation.
5. A day of light humor makes a night of feathered pillows.
6. A fancy buckle on an old shoe won’t improve your appearance.
7. A fox is a good scout for the problems facing a fox.
8. A friend is a mirror of your character.
9. A gangly colt sometimes becomes a stunning stallion.
10. A glutton eats for flavor, a worker for energy.
11. A goat dressed in silk is still a goat.
12. A good beginning clarifies what needs doing.
13. A good drink suggests another would be good too.
14. A good laugh and a good sleep cure many ills.
15. A guest who overstays his welcome is an invader.
16. A hint of hunger adds a perk to the spuds.
17. A keen need will knead bread.
18. A kind word begins a fair encounter.
19. A light heart looks forward to many more beats.
20. A little smoke suggests that a big fire is possible.
21. A man learns to love every little thing that is his life, his wife.
22. A man might lose his hat in a fairy’s puff of wind.
23. A questioning boy is halfway to becoming a wise man.
24. A slip of the tongue is a slip of discretion.
25. A turkey has an honorable role in life, and death too.
26. A watched pot never boils, but an unwatched pot boils over.
27. A wild goose wants to fly, but a tame one wants to stay where the food is plentiful.
28. A windy day makes it difficult to work with straw.
29. A wise man is willing to hear information based on facts.
30. A wren for dinner is healthier than a flock of geese in flight.
31. All animals will warn of a stranger’s appearance.
32. Always put hot sauce on your finger before you pick your eye.
33. An apple will fall when it is ripe, but it’s a cull when it hits the ground.
34. An empty sack held up may only be full of air.
35. An imperfect homemaker keeps the door locked.
36. An Irishman’s mouth often breaks his nose.
37. As you create a problem for others, you create many for yourself.
38. Better have one look ahead than constantly be watching your behind.
39. Beware of the anger of any man, but especially a thoughtful one.
40. Cats with dowries get smooth strokes.
41. Check what’s under the fur before buying the meat.
42. Choosing idleness attracts misery.
43. Climate comes by decades and weather by the hour.
44. Cooperate and bend with a tree that bends with you.
45. Count your eggs, and multiply by zero to count your next flock of chickens.
46. Don’t belittle your creations as they may be perfect for another man’s taste.
47. Don’t come home without bringing something to eat.
48. Don’t give your perfect cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
49. Don’t go to an upper-class party if you want to feel upper-class.
50. Don’t prop your door with honey.
51. Don’t waste an hour looking for a dropped penny.
52. Don’t worry about winter if you have a tent and a down sleeping bag.
53. Don’t ask a blind man to do your portrait painting.
54. Don’t bless the fish until it’s on the dinner table.
55. Don’t boot a stool and skin your shin.
56. Don’t expend your necessities on other people’s pleasures.
57. Don’t fear a little wind and rain if your hay is in the barn.
58. Even a short road is boring if there isn’t a view.
59. Even an absolute fool has some good luck.
60. Even black hens lay perfect eggs.
61. Even great floods eventually flow away.
62. Even horrible people have others who adore them.
63. Every dog is the master of his front door.
64. Every eye looks for what it loves and fears.
65. Everyone becomes an authority on his disease when it’s gone.
66. Everyone is amiable and calm until a cow starts eating his garden.
67. Everyone is deaf until he proves he’s dumb.
68. Everyone lays his burden on a compliant horse.
69. Everything is forgotten until it’s being remembered.
70. Experience for a fool is as useless a comb to a bald man.
71. Faultless friends are hard to find.
72. Find honest ways to relate to the world, and it will treat you fairly well.
73. Flatterers are not helpers.
74. Forgetting your debt doesn’t mean the lender forgot it.
75. Get a fish in the basket before you plan for a fish dinner.
76. Give your last chicken to Imhotep.
77. God’s open hand is as near as a church door.
78. Gold is light as the wind to a prodigal son.
79. Good humor is born in a bountiful kitchen.
80. Good luck rarely beats good work.
81. Good manners get you into more palaces than good looks.
82. Good sense and forethought serve good dinners.
83. Growing old offers many bounties that most never get to appreciate.
84. Guys and girls are nourished by the same things.
85. Hard-won wisdom is easy to remember.
86. He was there when they gave out the brains but not the common sense.
87. He who loses his life loses all his money, friends, faith, and love.
88. Hold your praise of the corn until it’s on your plate.
89. If a man can be bought, it is known to your enemies.
90. If we all had enough to eat, it was a feast.
91. If work doesn’t come to you, make things you can sell.
92. If you don’t make time for the job, you must make haste for it.
93. If you must sell a skinny goat, promote its best qualities.
94. If you’re up today, it’s a beautiful day.
95. If your dog loves you, it wants to sleep beside you.
96. Insights into hindsight give options into foresight.
97. Instinct is strong, but it can be guided with your eyes.
98. It is better to walk away from danger than to be dead forever.
99. It is easy to share a single potato with your love.
100. It is time to end the feast and go home before the quarrels begin.
101. It takes time and work to build castles, even in the air.
102. It takes wisdom to discern good advice from bad advice.
103. It would be better off if you did your growing up when young.
104. It’s a lonely washing laundry with no man’s underwear in it.
105. It’s more sensible to pay the produce man than the butcher or doctor.
106. It’s not a delay to take a needed break.
107. Keep your statements brief and on the subject.
108. Life is like a cup of tea if you do it right.
109. Look before you leap, so you can enjoy the fall.
110. Look carefully at every step on a wilderness path.
111. Luck never gives you anything it won’t take away, if given a chance.
112. Maintain your strength and flexibility when challenged.
113. Make sure your essentials like food and home are secure.
114. Marriages are happy until breakfast.
115. May every day be better than yesterday.
116. May the enemies of Ireland never have a friend.
117. May the hinges of our homes stay well greased.
118. May your cat eat you, and may the cat then go to hell.
119. May your road to our home always be smooth.
120. More contentment comes to a man of character than one of wealth.
121. Never dance in a canoe.
122. Never let your sword, spade, or mind get rusty from being abandoned.
123. Never speak your secrets aloud as they become part of reality.
124. No human is sapient all the time.
125. No one becomes wiser until a friend betrays him.
126. No time for your health today means no health for you tomorrow.
127. No work today, no breakfast tomorrow.
128. Old fiddles improve with age.
129. Patience eventually cures all wounds.
130. People survive because of other people’s unseen protection.
131. Perfect hindsight isn’t perfect foresight.
132. Perseverance with adaptations beats rigid endurance.
133. Show your results but not your secret methods.
134. Spend money to make your world a better place for you and others to live fulfilling lives.
135. Success is getting up one more time than the other guy.
136. Swapping stories is what makes drinking worthwhile.
137. The beautiful people have no enemies but time and wrinkles.
138. The best men have faults, and the worst have some virtues.
139. The completed work praises the man.
140. The eating pigs lie in their eating trough.
141. The fatigue of work floats away, but the benefits remain.
142. The more beds you own, the less comforting is the one your in.
143. The past, future, and present are somewhat unpredictable.
144. The paved highway is the most leisurely road home.
145. The poor will open the door to a hovel more readily than a prince to a palace.
146. The stars are noisy up close, but there is a vacuum intervening.
147. There are many species of beetles, and they all recognize their own.
148. There are many ways to be lucky but only one to be rich.
149. There is a vast emptiness between idle hope and active hope.
150. There is no dinner table like the one at home.
151. There is no good luck except where opportunities are being exploited.
152. There is pleasure in sharing things with people you love.
153. There was an elephant in the toilet.
154. There was gold in the mountain, but he didn’t lick it out with his tongue.
155. There was never an old slipper but an old stocking to match it.
156. There’s no need to relive the past because it will only return in the future.
157. Thinking about plowing will not do the plowing.
158. Time and retelling emphasize the exciting parts of the stories.
159. To teach a crow to dance is easier than to teach a cat to do anything.
160. Turn your back to a cold wind and face the sun.
161. Understanding reality is the desire of the wise.
162. We are all linked to earth, but the Webb telescope is looking for us beyond the stars.
163. We are like bagpipes and are quiet until pumped up.
164. We will build a house with lumber, but a home with happy children.
165. What a sober man keeps in his heart, a drunk one blurts to the world.
166. Whatever you get with foul play will help get you into hell.
167. When a cow is stressed, she grows longer horns.
168. When alcohol is in, the brains run out.
169. When good or bad luck comes, it comes in excess.
170. When the big cats are away, the little mice can play.
171. While seeking one lost thing, you often find another misplaced thing.
172. While the investor is out to lunch, his next meal goes into the garbage.
173. Whistling individuals do sloppy work, but singing workers ignore coffee breaks.
174. Who gossips to you of others will gossip of you to others.
175. Yes-men don’t row the boat.
176. You are lucky enough if you are Irish and still alive.
177. You can catch the same cold from a King or a shepherd.
178. You can’t learn to swim by reading a book about archery.
179. You can’t read the fine print in flickering firelight, but you can ponder the stories.
180. You can’t whistle and chew gum at the same time.
181. You don’t plow a field by turning the dirt over in your mind.
182. You only live once, so be cheerful even if you are dying.
183. You will work for your love!
184. Your cat purrs for her pleasure, but you can listen.
185. Your total life expectancy increases with every passing moment.

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However, the blog is now up today, but if these proverb posts are going to be continued it appears there will have to be some less time-consuming filler pages like those snapshots of trees, the Webb Telescope launch, the Probaway Person of the Year, the moribund Logarithmic Covid charts, and an occasional public letter.

I don’t know if anyone else likes these “proverbs” but I am having “adult-fun” creating them.

Some pictures of trees and leaves and puddles

A ponderosa tree near my house.

A closer look toward the top.

Further up

Some guy went up there and cut off the top.

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All trees are not the same.

Like President Reagan said, “If you’ve seen one tree, you’ve seen ’em all.”

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Some water ran down the street.

I saw it go into the sewer.

My life is so exciting here in Bend, Oregon.

French proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

Primary sources of these proverbs are from the web. They have been filtered through Grammarly and adjusted for easier application to the Aphor Game for the invention of new ideas.

– FluentU – French Together – Wikiquote

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1. A big problem cut into little pieces becomes little problems.
2. A bird is known by its song, and a man by his words.
3. A contentious woman entices contentious men to quarrel.
4. A day without wine is always gloomy.
5. A faint heart without money rarely wins a fair lady.
6. A fault exposed and confessed is only half redressed.
7. A few of the little fish will grow big.
8. A forgotten key wears out your shoes.
9. A free garage stuffed with functioning things saves time and money.
10. A friend in deed is a friend forever.
11. A friend lost in space can be found, but lost in time is gone forever.
12. A friend who steals candy at the store will steal your car and your wife.
13. A good workman leaves a clean site at day’s end.
14. A hurtful joke kills a friendship.
15. A kindness toward people with an evil streak stimulates their evil desires.
16. A planet stuffed with people means a famine is imminent .
17. A poor example has more followers than good reasons.
18. A poor start forecasts a poor finish.
19. A quick evaluation brings new unanticipated problems.
20. A sickly sheep may bleat louder than the healthy, but produce no lambs or wool.
21. A single swallow doesn’t move the sun to its springtime position.
22. A well-fed cat ignores well-fed rats.
23. A wonderful dinner encourages overeating.
24. Alcohol abuse eventually drives away everything worth having.
25. All contributions encourage more begging.
26. Always search for the good in the bad and the bad in the good.
27. An industrious youth spent developing ownership constructs decades of comfort.
28. Anticipate problems with possible injuries and let your enemies cope with them.
29. Anything accepted as it is, can be adapted or used as it is.
30. Avoid a man who believes in only one book.
31. Avoid those pleasures that will bite you forevermore.
32. Be as kind as possible even to what you are going to eat.
33. Be careful not to reject the good while rejecting the bad.
34. Born rich makes one well-fed and poorly experienced.
35. Brains aren’t enough when patience is what’s needed.
36. Briefly stated is better communicated.
37. Change enables more change.
38. Cheaters must have a good memory and bulletproof vests.
39. Choose a wife with your contented stomach, not your ears, never your eyes.
40. Choosing the right books for guidance is easier than trial and error.
41. Come the very worst that mankind can bring, it’s not the end of the Universe.
42. Confidence grows within a field as acceptance is achieved.
43. Desperate diseases require desperate strategies of avoidance.
44. Do as you may, if you can’t do as you should.
45. Do not play with luck, where cheaters can easily hide.
46. Do things in their natural order.
47. Dogs make puppies, and cats make kittens.
48. Don’t give money or counsel until you are asked for it.
49. Don’t let some woman trick you into comparing them to another woman.
50. Don’t mention rope in a house where someone hanged themself.
51. Don’t wash your poopy pants in public.
52. Drumming is the fool’s way to catch rabbits.
53. Earn your living, and don’t wait for dying men’s shoes, or you may go barefoot.
54. Eavesdroppers never hear praise of themselves.
55. Envy lurks in covetousness and jealousy.
56. Envy tortures those who rehearse it.
57. Even crooked logs are good for something, like burning.
58. Even snails have made it to where they have been going for millions of years.
59. Every man for himself and the devil gets the laggards.
60. Every man loves those things that remind him of himself.
61. Every man thinks his geese look better than swans.
62. Everyone has unique qualities they appreciate being recognized.
63. Expect to be poisoned by polluted water.
64. First catch your rabbit before you finalize your plans to eat him.
65. First or second or deep thoughts are randomly best.
66. Fools think of themselves as wise.
67. Fuel before a wildfire is easily wetted.
68. Get behind your dog when its barking.
69. Gifts and favors from an enemy have hidden strings attached.
70. Gnaw the bone you have in your mouth, not the one in your eye.
71. God helps those who help themselves, as does the Devil.
72. God is very busy, so concise and pithy prayers are best.
73. Good breeding always reveals itself.
74. Good enough is the enemy of the best.
75. Good swimmers are often drowned after a few drinks.
76. He likes to talk!
77. He who has a bald head must wear a hat in the evening.
78. He who excuses himself too quickly accuses himself.
79. He who leaves certainty and sticks to chance will die hungry.
80. He who lives long enough shall see the results of his actions.
81. He who makes an ass of himself must expect men ride him.
82. He who stumbles and doesn’t fall carefully watches the path for problems.
83. Hesitation brings trouble and procrastination disaster.
84. Hide from everyone if ever you’re drunk or you will be recorded a fool.
85. History repeats itself but changes the actors’ names.
86. I learn from my mistakes how to make them bigger.
87. If everybody says it’s true, it must be true, or a delusion.
88. If everyone picked up their litter, the world would be more perfect.
89. If my dog doesn’t love you, I won’t either.
90. If you are unsure what to do, find an honest person to tell you what to do.
91. If you buy the cheapest, you will repair and discard it soonest.
92. If you cannot get what you want, you must choose what you need.
93. If you choose to do a job, do it well.
94. If you make your bed with lumps, you will sleep with lumps.
95. If you sow weeds, you will grow weeds and eat weeds come spring.
96. Ignorance is bliss only if you are already in Heaven.
97. Impossible isn’t a French word.
98. In complex affairs, take counsel with your pillow.
99. In with too much wine, comes out with too much truth.
100. Inquisitiveness into top secrets will get you killed.
101. It is useless to argue with facts with fools.
102. It’s better to run with the hounds than become the eaten hare.
103. It’s easy to do a few stretching exercises during a long day sitting.
104. It’s fun to go shopping if you have spare money.
105. It’s not only what you do; but the quality of your finished products.
106. It’s the exception that proves the law is a rule, and the rule is just a suggestion.
107. It’s the hen who cackles most frequently who lays the most eggs.
108. It’s time better spent to be alone than with a bore.
109. Jealousy imposes painful thoughts and pays bitter rewards.
110. Let us get back to minding our sheep and getting something done.
111. Listen to his profession of faith to find his intolerance.
112. Long live the difference between the sexes.
113. Look before you walk in deep grass, for slithering snakes are among the flowers.
114. Looked for is last found.
115. Love based on character never grows old.
116. Love, smoke, and a cough are hard to hide.
117. Make haste slowly, if ever.
118. Make something good out of the bad things that have happened to you.
119. Memory is the mind’s eye into the future.
120. Men and goats leap over a fence where it’s lowest.
121. Might is always right, except when confronted with facts.
122. Money in the pocket is there to be spent, but in the bank it’s to be invested.
123. Nature learned all it needed to know long ago, and needs no teaching.
124. Never play with knives, or any other potential weapon.
125. Never said, requires no apologies.
126. No man is indispensable, except for me, except for me.
127. Nobody can fully understand another person.
128. Nothing can be enjoyed if a tiny mistake kills you forever.
129. One rotten apple will soon make apple cider vinegar.
130. Only fools don’t change their opinions when the facts change.
131. Only sick birds foul their own nest.
132. Perfect health is worth more than all the gold in the world.
133. Philosophers and fools hide behind beards.
134. Poets are born with visions, but orators are groomed for convictions.
135. Put all your eggs in one basket and guard it carefully.
136. Put an end to unpleasant business and enjoy the pleasant business.
137. Quick to eat, quick to work.
138. Rain and sunshine both come and go as they will.
139. Reason does not come before thirty years of experience.
140. Relaxation is a occasional restorative to work, not a lifestyle.
141. Some big theings devour small ones, but small ones eventually devour the big.
142. Some talk only to conceal their intentions, others to reveal the truth.
143. Sow a little, reap a little.
144. Specific sources of pain create specific aversions.
145. Speed is a swift accomplishment, but haste is an instantaneous failure.
146. Study the problem, find solutions, set goals, seek paths, and find people who agree.
147. The absent are always accused of doing the evil deeds.
148. The beginning may have been poor, but it was a good beginning if the end was acceptable.
149. The best goods are the most used.
150. The bird family teaches its chicks how to sing.
151. The mother bird returns to the nest she built.
152. The door of opportunity is always opening for the prepared.
153. The first rule for everyone should be, pay attention and do your best.
154. The first to ripen is the first to rotten.
155. The greatest fear of a general is to appear weak and attract attack.
156. The more perfect you are, the more a speck blemishes your reputation.
157. The price of everything is defined by what the purchaser paid.
158. The pain is not in the pleasure of the sin but in the punishment for doing it.
159. The special moments in one’s life change your life.
160. The taste must constitute the criterion.
161. The wolf gives no justifications for eating lambs.
162. These days gluttony kills more than famine.
163. Those who seek wisdom expect foresight as a reward.
164. Those whom gods will destroy, they first drive insane.
165. To eat a nut, you must first crack open the shell.
166. To give and take in a game is fair play.
167. To those who accomplish things, the boaster of titles is disgusting.
168. Truth gives a short, boring answer, but lies are more fun and take longer.
169. Vigilance is the right eye of prudence.
170. Wage-earners more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
171. Want what you have, and you’ll have what you want.
172. We are embedded in nature at every possible level.
173. We are compelled to let the world go the way it does and adapt to it.
174. Wealth rarely brings happiness, but it does nudge it in that direction.
175. What is in the mind it tries to conceal, but the heart speaks openly.
176. What’s bred into the bone will be seen in the flesh.
177. When fools perform the music, it’s other fools who dance.
178. Where there’s life, there’s a struggle to live and reproduce.
179. While the spring grass is still short, the hungry horse starves.
180. Who does not move forward with the crowd falls off the rear.
181. Who falls short in the head work must be long on the footwork.
182. Who has not served cannot rise to command.
183. Whoever succeeds in living will see the results of today’s actions.
184. Will we ever make contact with extraterrestrials? Webb will give us a clue.
185. You will sleep contentedly when not having projects hanging over you.
186. You can’t make an enemy into a friend with jokes.
187. You don’t need to teach an old monkey how to make monkey faces.
188. You must pay for everything, directly or indirectly, in money or kind.
189. You must rise well before dawn to please everybody.
190. You would avoid problems if you turned your tongue around before you spoke.
191. Young people lack wisdom, and old people lack initiative.
192. Your night’s sleep reveals ideas hidden in your pillow.

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I have been overwhelmed with the total number of proverbs I have been adapting per day. German proverbs reached well over 400, and it couldn’t be done in one day. I covered that by doing a quick post on the Webb telescope which I have been watching live, off to the side, as much as possible. You can see most of that in recorded form but during the drama of watching it that Christmas Day I seriously worried that a tiny malfunction might ruin the entire project.

It was because of the final stroke that didn’t set the nail in the horse’s shoe properly, that a great nation fell. In the Webb telescope, there is an infinity of tiny things that could have gone wrong. But fortunately, it has performed even better than down the middle of the fairway, so far.

Other than that I have done little but work on this Aphor Game for months. There are many more French proverbs to move into an Aphor Game format and I must manufacture some time. Unfortunately, that is against the laws of the Universe. Several years ago I posted a single x. Perhaps that would leave enough time to write a hundred more Aphors.