Chad Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

– Proverbical – Proverbs from Chad

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1. A cat in its home is a lion.
2. A clever bird feathers its nest with other bird’s feathers.
3. A cockerel fears another cockerel who plucks out his feathers.
4. A friendly smile is understood by everyone.
5. A leader without a pot belly is stingy with food.
6. A man with ambition is like a miser and cannot sleep peacefully.
7. A tyrant is a slave who’s been given command.
8. A weak ruler thinks of his crown as a heavy load.
9. An angry wasp nest in the commander’s tent is more dangerous than the enemy.
10. Arrogance and inability to take counsel destroyed the chief’s chance for victory.
11. Ask for the support of your people by showing them what they need.
12. Discord among the powerful people leaves the poor people in peace.
13. Do not cook a goat’s kids in their mother’s milk, or your mother will cook you.
14. Every cock is a noisy rooster standing on his own dung.
15. For lack of maternal criticism, the arrogant elephant’s nose grew long.
16. He is a drum that makes loud noise without saying anything.
17. He is destined for royal power whose father is a king.
18. He who is ambitious for fame and fortune will have many sleepless nights.
19. Horns that are glued on might look good, but quickly fall off in a combat.
20. If a cockroach wants to rule a chicken house he asks a fox to chase the chickens out.
21. If a man wants to grow the long teeth of age, he must have a lip to cover his mouth.
22. If birds flew in flocks without coordination, theyo would run into one another.
23. If the man in front falls into a hole, stop and help him out, or go around
24. If those with horns cannot defend against the predators, their kin will be eaten.
25. If two wise men always agree, we don’t need to invite both to dinner.
26. If you always go the same way, you will get to the same old place.
27. If you are filled with pride, you will feel no need for wisdom.
28. If you fear a person, you give them power over you.
29. If you overtake the leader, you are out in front without an army supporting you.
30. If you tolerate one moment of anger, you may prevent a lifetime of regret.
31. In its place, every living thing is in command of its actions.
32. It takes time and hunger to unite a village to go hunting.
33. It’s easy to swim in any direction in the middle of the ocean or a river.
34. Look out for misfortune and guard against it while there is still time and distance.
35. Only when a tree is strong can you tether a bull to it.
36. Prefer a leader who comes to you for help.
37. Sleep is the friendly brother of death.
38. Somewhere the sky touches the earth, and that is everywhere.
39. The humble pay to keep the rich rolling in money.
40. The lion loves fish but hates to get its feet wet.
41. The lion’s power is only dangerous when he’s hungry or cornered.
42. The more feathers a chicken has, the nearer it is to death.
43. The shepherd of toads must be delicate with his rod.
44. The tree that encourages birds to nest in its branches doesn’t mind when birds do.
45. There is no such things as a small fire in a forest or a small woman in her own home.
46. Those who have once held absolute power will do anything to get it back.
47. To be a chief requires a blend of many qualities, beyond physical strength.
48. Too many cocks greeting the dawn takes too long.
49. When a baobab tree falls, the frustrated goats finally get to climb it.
50. When the chief asks people to show up, there is something seriously wrong.
51. When the lead animal has gone lame with age, the herd fails to get to its pasture.
52. When the master of a house lacks common sense, the doctor’s work is useless.
53. When the moon is full, the stars are dim.
54. When there is peace in our country, the chief talks about local problems.
55. When you are friends with a chief, remember that is sitting on a fence.
56. Where two rivers meet, there will be some turbulence.
57. You become who you pretend to be, so pretend to be friendly and honest.
58. You cannot climb a mountain without crushing some weeds.
59. Your beauty is in what you have inside, expressed by what you have outside.

COVID Logarithmic chart 2022-03-15

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Look at the thick wiggly RED line labeled “Averaged total deaths per day”. Observe how nearly flat it is since the COVID pandemic reached its first peak on April 1st, 2020. On that date, the five-day average death rate was 4,142. The very highest death rate was 14,311, a year later on May 1st, 2021. That is a small spread considering the disease went from relatively local to worldwide. Today’s death rate is 5,623, which is the lowest in over a year, but the even better news is that it dropped from 10,100 in only six weeks. If that curve continues for two more weeks our death rate will drop to its lowest since April 1, two years ago.

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Netherlands Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

https://proverbicals.com/dutch-proverbs – Proverbical

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1. A bird never flew so far that it didn’t come to its nest to care for chicks.
2. A bit of patience enhances a load of brains.
3. A brilliant daughter will make an exacting wife.
4. A bug in your green salad adds some protein.
5. A crow always catches something to bring to the nest..
6. A crown is a tight cure for headache.
7. A daily guest eats between meals in your kitchen.
8. A dog with a bone doesn’t share it with his friends.
9. A fool will sometimes say a wise thing but fails to practice it.
10. A good horse earns his stable and fodder.
11. A hard comb scratches a scabby head.
12. A horse may stumble, though he has four feet.
13. A kiss without a beard is lacking something unique.
14. A man overboard on a long voyage is a mouth less to feed.
15. A man without money is like a car without gas.
16. A miser’s hoard of money replaces wisdom.
17. A penny saved and invested well grows exponentially.
18. A proper suit is a good recommendation for a job.
19. A sad bride becomes a happy mother.
20. A ship on the beach is a warning lighthouse to those at sea.
21. A small pot boils quickly.
22. A sturdy heart assuages adversity.
23. A usurer, a banker, and a publican are the harbingers of debt.
24. A wolf dreams of sheep even as he’s dying.
25. A young wife and green wood make a pettish new home.
26. After a bite of plain meat comes the touch of mustard.
27. After a drought with too little water comes a flood with too much.
28. After an ocean high tide comes a low one.
29. After honor and office come envy then hate.
30. All are not friends who smile and offer drinks.
31. All are not princes who are in the emperor’s retinue.
32. All is well if the bride is a milkmaid with fair skin.
33. All officers are greasy and readily accept more grease.
34. All women read the Bible in a way that pleases their needs.
35. An ennobled peasant never mentions his father.
36. An honest man’s word is a sacred contract.
37. An idle man is the devil’s greatest comfort.
38. An inch too short is as bad as a mile.
39. An old coachman loves the sound of a whip cracking.
40. An old rat won’t go near a trap like the one that killed his brother.
41. An ox and a horse don’t team up to pull a plow.
42. Anger is a brief insanity.
43. Barking dogs are claiming territory and don’t bite while they are barking.
44. Bear patiently the problems you created and fix them.
45. Before you depend on a friend, sweat a few days with him.
46. Beside every mountain there are valleys.
47. Better a blind horse who can pull than an empty halter.
48. Better a broken leg than broken neck.
49. Better conventional with honor than wealthy with shame.
50. Better to be needing glasses and squinting than blind.
51. Better to be poor on solid land than rich on a treacherous sea.
52. Better to get a slap from your friend than a gift from your enemy.
53. Better to harvest the crop two days early than one day late.
54. Better to keep the peace with a potential enemy than make peace with him after a battle.
55. Better to lose an anchor than the ship.
56. Better to make a dog to be your friend than your foe.
57. Better to make it into heaven than talk about it.
58. Better to own a ruined land than no land at all.
59. Better to return empty-handed than be lost at night.
60. Better to ride a horse for a year than a donkey all your life.
61. Beware of people who can change loyalties quickly.
62. Big fish are hard to catch, but little ones taste just as good.
63. By hard work a fire can be gotten from a stone.
64. Cast not your roses before swine wearing pearls.
65. Cats don’t catch old birds but thrive on young ones.
66. Caution in needed with fragile beer glasses.
67. Coffee has four virtues, being wet, warm, tasty, and stimulating.
68. Common fame is based on a successful public action.
69. Common goods are what everyone uses and no one values.
70. Coupled sheep drown one another in survival struggles.
71. Covetous men can never fill their unattainable greed.
72. Darkness spurs thoughts of what’s lurking out of sight.
73. Daughters are to be seen but must remain silent.
74. Dogs have teeth in every country.
75. Don’t overstrain your bow, or it may break and leave you defenseless.
76. Economy and thrift are sources of self-sufficiency.
77. Every day is a challenging holiday for vagabonds.
78. Every Dutchman wants his street kept tidy.
79. Every flood tide has its ebb.
80. Everyone is a thief of the secrets of his craft.
81. Everyone must row his boat with the oar in his hands.
82. Everything has a beginning and end, except God.
83. Fair money can hide many ugly things.
84. Falling teaches one to be more careful about everything.
85. Fools are freed of working everywhere, but often go hungry.
86. For unrelenting criminals horrible treatments are justified.
87. Fortune and delicate glass often shatter to bits.
88. From trivial disagreements wars often arise.
89. Geese are plucked of all their feathers.
90. God doesn’t pay weekly, but it’s claimed that He pays beautifully in the end.
91. God sells wisdom for the right mental labors, and honors for successful risk.
92. Good drink and cheerful companions drive out bad thoughts and feelings.
93. Good looking apples sometimes have a worm.
94. Good things require time to grow.
95. Good wine doesn’t need a fancy environment, but it helps.
96. Great boast makes do with little roast.
97. Great wealth demands responsible administration.
98. Hares are not caught by beating drums.
99. Hasty acts at the beginning of an anger bring injury, sadness, and repentance.
100. Hasty questions require complex answers.
101. He believed the weatherman and went skating three days before the ice froze hard.
102. He fell, and with luck his nose landed in the butter.
103. He has a great bland side for facing problems.
104. He must be a good teacher as he never makes a mistake.
105. He must shoot well, and lie well too, as he never misses.
106. He talks like a sausage, but without the fat.
107. He that chases women never sits still at a dance.
108. He that despises the little people is not worthy of leading them.
109. He that has a choice has trouble.
110. He that has embarked on a ship with a devil must endure him.
111. He that has the right luck leads the right bride to church.
112. He that must make an important choice must look forward to the results.
113. He that routinely saves many things will soon have a big choice of things,
114. He that will make a personal joke must be willing to accept them with a smile.
115. He waits a long time who waits for an inheritance.
116. He wants to learn how to shave starting with my beard.
117. He who attempts too many things fails at all of them.
118. He who has no thirst has no need to hog the water fountain.
119. He who is afraid of falling leaves must not go into a deciduous forest.
120. He who is at a door has completed most of the journey
121. He who slanders anyone makes his backside a tempting target.
122. He who smells roses must tolerate thorns.
123. He who wants a new world order must first buy and sell the old one.
124. He who would catch a thief must watch for him with his back.
125. He would be a wizard beyond wise who knew every future happening.
126. Hearsay is half lies and half fantasy.
127. Help yourself to prosper and God will help you finish your work.
128. Hens like to lay their eggs in the company of other hens where they can show off.
129. Idleness forecasts hunger, which precedes crime, which predicts prison.
130. If fools ate no bread, it would be cheaper.
131. If you are to eat some host’s dessert, you must first eat his lentils.
132. If you pull a pig by its tail the whole pig will squeal.
133. If you touch pitch you will get sticky fingers that attract dirt.
134. If your dinner isn’t burning why worry about it?
135. Ill-matched animals will draw poorly.
136. In the company of honest people we become honest.
137. In the division of inheritance, friendship stands to the side.
138. In the land of hope and promise a man will starve.
139. In time a mouse will gnaw through anything with a nice give.
140. It is a grief to one beggar that another got to the generous lady first.
141. It is a poor well that you have to prime with water.
142. It is better to blow on your bacon than burn your mouth.
143. It is easy to make a pleasant lady of a peasant girl, and an unpleasant peasant out of a pleasant lady..
144. It is hard to blow politely with a mouth full of beer.
145. It is hard to steal anything when visiting a thief.
146. It is hard to swim upstream when there is a swift current.
147. It is hasty speed that fails because of mistakes.
148. It is pleasant spinning a story from another’s yarn.
149. It is pleasant to warm oneself by another’s fire and coffee.
150. It is safest to sail a small boat within swimming distance of shore.
151. It needs a skilled hand to shave a fool’s beard.
152. It’s a good winter when more bakers are on horseback than doctors.
153. It’s pleasant to watch a spring rain from a window with a view.
154. Learn who your friends are when you are dying.
155. Let me get over the lake, and I will cope with the brook.
156. Like will join with like, be they rich or poor.
157. Little fish are the sweetest.
158. Little is completed where many have been called to help.
159. Little pots are easy to heat, but soon boil over.
160. Little thieves have chains of iron about their ankles, but big thieves have gold ones about their necks.
161. Long fasting doesn’t save bread, because famished people replace their weight.
162. Love makes heavy work light.
163. Many open a door to and close a drafty window.
164. Many seek good nights and waste their good days.
165. Men can bear many bad things, but good days disillusion them.
166. Men that crawl, never fall far.
167. Might is not right, even if the perpetrators get their way.
168. Milk the cow, in politics, but they don’t pull off the udder.
169. My shirt is closer to who I am than my cloak.
170. Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where others can observe you.
171. No better promoters of work than poverty, hunger and want.
172. No office so humble as a street sweeper, but it’s enough pay to eat.
173. No one is wiser nor more foolish than a man in desperation.
174. No peace after the neighbor no longer desires peace.
175. No sheep run into the mouth of a sleeping wolf dreaming of sheep.
176. No wheat without chaff to be winnowed out.
177. Nobility of a soul is more honorable than that of birth.
178. Nobody’s wife is ugly.
179. Nothing is haste but catching and killing fleas.
180. Of hasty counsel take a second look.
181. Of listening children have your fears, for they have good ears and tell the truth.
182. Offer a clown your finger, and he’ll take your fist and arm.
183. One God, one wife, and many friends.
184. One penny in the empty pot makes a great noise.
185. One should not worry too much about marrying or taking medicine.
186. One spreads more jam when the toast is burnt.
187. Opportunity at the fingertips prompts craving.
188. Opportunity to take something valuable makes an honest man a thief.To have nothing positive to do stimulates the need to do something negative.
189. Our faults irritate us the most when we see how foolish they are in others.
190. Our life is like a tree, first the leaves fall, and then the tree.
191. Out of the abundance of the heart’s wishes the mouth speaks.
192. Patience is better than learning when waiting on developments.
193. Pleasures distract the mind from duties.
194. Poor folk’s wisdom doesn’t function well for the rich.
195. Promises are the moments when a debt becomes an unwelcome burden.
196. Put some little bells on a guy’s head and he’ll sound like a fool.
197. Put your hand on your conscience and see if it is blackened with guilt.
198. Reward is the goal of labor.
199. Roast pigeons only fly into your mouth in dreams.
200. Roses fade away and the petals fall, but the thorns remain.
201. Set your costs according to the expenses of your trade.
202. Shame lasts forever, but poverty comes and goes with the opportunities.
203. Skill and confidence in one’s abilities make a winning combination.
204. Sloth is the opening door to vice and trouble.
205. Slowly but surely a bird builds its nest out of available materials.
206. Soon ripe, soon rotten, and too soon wise will soon be foolish.
207. Sow not your gold coins in the sea for often it sinks.
208. Stay a while in the tavern and lose a mile of travel.
209. Stroke your dog and he’ll dirty your clothes.
210. Sweep your own house before you sweep your neighbor’s.
211. Take counsel of those with experience before opportunities go sour.
212. Take nothing into your hand that may bring repentance.
213. Talk of the devil and you will hear his bones rattling in your ears.
214. Teachers die, but the wisdom they taught lives on in their students.
215. Tender surgeons make foul wounds by cutting too much away.
216. That is good wisdom which functions to our benefit in the end.
217. The best cause requires a champion.
218. The best quality goods are the cheapest in the long run.
219. The best sailors keep their feet on solid ground.
220. The bigger the tree, the more flexible its twigs.
221. The care of the master makes a house healthy, and the care of the mistress the home happy.
222. The cow does not know the value of her tail killing flies, until it is gone.
223. The devil has martyrs who have died for his cause.
224. The end of mirth is the reemergence of our sorrows.
225. The eyes are bigger than the belly for growing boys.
226. The farther from Rome the nearer to nature’s gods.
227. The generous man helps himself by helping others; the miser lives in abject poverty.
228. The goose will charge you, flap its wings with menace, and hiss, but won’t bite.
229. The greatest promises come from people with nothing to give.
230. The heart expresses itself clearly and never lies, but the mind plots and obfuscates.
231. The higher the mountains the steeper the sides and deeper the gorges.
232. The most learned in facts are not the wisest in actions.
233. The moth circles a candle in fascination then in an instant is burnt and dies.
234. The open door invites the thief to walk away with your portable valuables.
235. The price of honey includes the problems of getting it from stinging bees.
236. The priests come for your wine and offers of officers for your daughters.
237. The richer one is the more sycophantic friends and the fewer true equals.
238. The richest men are the ones content with what they have.
239. The rowing is easy with the sail set into a good wind.
240. The scabbier a sheep’s skin the louder it bleats for relief.
241. The seeds to be planted are best planted at sunrise.
242. The third person to arrive makes the coming event into a party.
243. The whole world has people who love to be lied to and cheated.
244. The worse the carpenter, the more chips, waste and crooked joints..
245. The young birds have beaks suited to their adult occupations.
246. The young people may die, the old ones must.
247. There are far more thieves than are caught or hanged.
248. There are fools at every party.
249. There are no crueler masters than poverty, hunger, sickness, and lurking death.
250. There is more to dancing than a smooth floor and dancing shoes.
251. There is no point in combing a bald pate, other than it feels good.
252. They who fight with golden weapons and beautiful armor usually win.
253. Thistles and thorns prick you, but sharp tongues give permanent pain.
254. To get a cat out of a tree you must stare at it for a long time.
255. To get fresh hens’ eggs you must endure some cackling.
256. To marry once is to please your family, again for yourself, yet again for a nurse.
257. Trees must be carefully transplanted to thrive.
258. Truth becomes confused with too much nitpicking.
259. Uncomfortable hens are hesitant to lay eggs.
260. Victims have hope that sooner or later the truth will be discovered and rewarded.
261. Virtue isn’t a trait, it is a behavior.
262. Wasting anything is a bad habit, saving until secure is good, hoarding is foolish.
263. Were fools consistently silent, they would pass for sane.
264. Were the sky to fall, the air pressure would hold up the clouds.
265. What costs nothing people will throw away as worthless.
266. What has horns will use them to gore you, if you threaten it.
267. What is wrong today won’t be right tomorrow, but it might be next year.
268. What pretty things you don’t see you don’t seek.
269. What songs the old people sing the young ones can only whistle.
270. What the sober man thinks the drunkard and gossip tells the world.
271. When a child drowns in the well, they put a higher wall around it.
272. When a dog is down, he mopes and hides from everyone.
273. When a man feels pain he instinctively covers it with his hand, to protect it.
274. When a plague is upon our land, a mouse can kill a man.
275. When a tree falls everyone runs to get some free branches.
276. When in prosperity cover your basics, when adversity strikes protect your core.
277. When one sheep goes over the fence, the rest will soon follow.
278. When one’s stomach is full their heart feels happy.
279. When people quarrel they all exaggerate the differences.
280. When prosperity smiles, lay up sufficient stores to outlast your competition.
281. When the fools are too happy they dance on thin ice.
282. When the gunny sack is full its ears perk up.
283. When the head, toe, or middle is sick the whole body feels sick.
284. When the husband earns well, the wife spends more.
285. When the shepherd sleeps, the sheep stray.
286. When thieves have a falling out, they are good because they fear being ratted on.
287. When things are going well it’s easy to give advice.
288. When we least expect it, a rabbit darts out of a hat.
289. When work goes out the door, hunger comes in the window.
290. Where the dike is weakest it bursts.
291. Where the hedge is lowest the sheep go over.
292. Where the land is devoid of food, the emperor loses his powers.
293. Where there is no good within a person, no good can come out.
294. Who attempts too much does too little.
295. Who doesn’t watch for opportunities won’t find any.
296. Who doesn’t fear shame will dishonor himself.
297. Who doesn’t keep faith with God, He won’t keep faith with them.
298. Who gives to me teaches me how to give to others.
299. Who goes to bed hungry will sleep poorly.
300. Who gossips about his relatives gets no inheritance.
301. Who has many servants has many parasites.
302. Who has only one eye must be very careful of his whole body.
303. Who is tired of a happy go lucky life, let him marry a shrew.
304. Who knows the local language has local friends.
305. Who lends money, loses both the money and the friend.
306. Who makes his wife angry makes his life a hell on earth.
307. Who needs a fire should look first in the ashes of a former one.
308. Who serves the public has a multitude of fickle masters.
309. Who undertakes many things at the same time does all of them poorly.
310. Who would bother trying to make a silk purse from a pig’s ear?
311. Who writes love letters grows thin with anxiety, who delivers them grows fat with gifts.
312. Wisdom and patience in man and wife brings a long and happy life.
313. With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge home.
314. With a lot of rubbing you can get sparks for a fire out of a stone.
315. Women who are fixing their beauty, are rarely fixing a man’s socks.
316. Woods have ears for your secret prayers, and fields have eyes for your odd actions.
317. You will never know how a cow catches a rabbit.
318. Your friend lends you money, and your enemy demands you give it back.

Senegal Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

– African Literature – Inspirational Stories – Motivation Africa – Proverbica – Special Dictionary

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1. A bull would look great with a beard, but the nanny goats prefer it on their billies.
2. A farmer working in the sun all day needs a big hat.
3. A healthy ear can endure a sick person’s words.
4. A rotten fish stinks up the whole kitchen.
5. A tree that grows under the shade of a big one will die small.
6. A true believer would appreciate hearing his horoscope at his funeral.
7. All paths in the jungle go somewhere.
8. All species of birds will benefit from being near a fruiting tree.
9. An empty belly listens for nothing but the call to dinner.
10. An overcast, moonless night in the jungle is dark, dangerous, touching close, and terrifying.
11. Atheists ignore the opportunities sent by God.
12. Eat coconuts when young and have teeth.
13. Even Buddhist monks quarrel.
14. For a ruler to maintain control, it is better to be feared than loved, but for the rest of us it’s to be loved.
15. Frogs like water, and like men, they don’t notice and adapt to slow changes, even unto death.
16. Getting started early leaves time for traveling more leisurely.
17. He may say he loves you, but what he means and what you hear are different.
18. Health and sanity are greater treasures than money and wisdom.
19. How will you feel about this decision in ten years?
20. If the eye is not pleased, the heart won’t be either.
21. It is better to walk than curse the road.
22. It is more comfortable to walk fast than be annoyed with the distance.
23. It’s a workman devoted to the beauty of his creations who does the best job.
24. It’s better to cry alone than have an intermediary get paid to pretend to cry for you.
25. Kings have no friends because everyone becomes a suck-up trying to garner favors.
26. Lies that make things pleasing are more desired than truths that destroy.
27. My goat is always on the other side of the river.
28. No matter how great you are at something, soon there will be someone greater.
29. No one tells all they know because no one remembers now all they can remember.
30. Other people are good medicine for people.
31. Poverty is the result of the inability to find anything to do that other people find worth buying.
32. Speak to those who want to understand what you say.
33. Spending a night angry is terrible, but it’s less shameful than regret, which lasts forever.
34. Spilling a little water is better than dropping the jar.
35. The chameleon demonstrates how to adapt and blend into our changing world.
36. The cow steps on her calf, but she also nurses it.
37. The future emerges from the inertias of the past.
38. The greater the politician’s ambition, the worse the trouble.
39. The heart is flexible but different from a knee that can be bent.
40. The hunter always beats the lions because it’s the hunter telling the stories.
41. The jungle is an environment to which an elephant, man, and mouse can adapt.
42. The one who has a spoon does not burn his hands dipping into hot soup.
43. The smiling teeth of a friendly man generate friendly responses.
44. The sperms and eggs that grow into whales, humans, and mice are about the same size.
45. The spoken word is like a waterfall making noise where there is silence.
46. The various parts of your body know how to do their job better than you do.
47. The wisdom of foresight eliminates the need for most weapons.
48. There can be no peace without the love of differences.
49. Those paddling a canoe cooperate because of a common goal.
50. To hustle gets things done quickly, but hurrying makes time-wasting mistakes.
51. To predict a man’s honesty, check his drinking buddy’s FICO scores.
52. Tomorrow will come whether you like it or not, just like the weather.
53. Traveling with a good companion is a delight, but it’s a vexation with a lousy one.
54. Trusting money to help you is like depending on feathered turtles.
55. Truth is like gold locked in a safe, which is unless if no one can see it.
56. Trying to prolong the day by telling the sun to slow down impedes your progress.
57. We conserve what we love, love what we understand, and understand what comes naturally.
58. We, like the wolf, die where we live and with those we love.
59. What you willingly give to others once, you give to yourself many times in the future.
60. When a cow eats good pasture, her calf suckles good milk.
61. When a dancer falls, they integrate it into their performance.
62. When a dog is not defending his master and territory, he doesn’t bark much.
63. When a mouse provokes a cat, he has a safe hole nearby.
64. When a musician forgets a note, he fakes a cough.
65. Where the branches of trees fight for sunshine, their roots fight for water.
66. Whoever wants honey must somehow pay for the pains of coping with bees.
67. With little gifts, you can catch a monkey in the jungle.
68. Work to support yourself by doing good work, and the whole world will offer you money.
69. You cannot run and scratch your itching feet at the same time.
70. You die young and poor if your habits acquire debt, abandon love, and constantly change residence.
71. You have lost your son’s respect if he laughs at you when you scold him.
72. You only see a tiny bit of what exists, but everything exists in the Universe.

Ecuador Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

Inspirational Stories – Proverbicals – Proverbs and Co – World Proverbs

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1. A man alone on the open sea learns how to pray to infinity.
2. A man who says too much will hear criticisms he won’t enjoy.
3. Alcohol is an excellent preservative, except for employment and marriage.
4. All donkeys, like men, have their burdens.
5. An honest man dips his hand when the treasure chest is wide open.
6. Anger in the brain corrodes a happy heart.
7. Hands that give also take and receive.
8. He who refuses to learn from others’ experiences will hit many bumps.
9. In youth, we learn; in old age, we forget.
10. One little step after another, and you will go about 75,000 miles.
11. Pay off all your debts, and discover how much you are worth by visiting your FiCO borrowing score.
12. Secrets are unknowable until they aren’t.
13. Sometimes strength is in an individual, and sometimes it’s in groups.
14. The little jobs left to the whole group never get done unless assigned to an individual.
15. The news reporter stabs a thousand public people, but an assassin only stabs one.
16. The preacher’s after-dinner sermon on fasting was inspiring.
17. The richest guy is always married to the most undesirable woman.
18. The strong survivors forgive and forget the wound, but the crippled still suffer the injury and remember who did it.
19. The stupid comments of the rich and famous are accepted as revealed wisdom by the viewing public.
20. There can be no pleasantries without well-practiced discretion.
21. Those who endeavor to fleece the public usually come home fleeced themselves.
22. Unrequited love doesn’t kill, but it sells romance novels.
23. When one person is helping another, both are gaining strength.
24. You always fall the way you’re leaning.
25. You have an heir and heritage if your newborn breathes.
26. You will always have a book under consideration by a publisher if you have an addressed package ready to send to another publisher.

Syria Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

Inspirational Stories – Inspiring – Proverbicals – Special Dictionary – We Love Arabic

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1. A blanket of shame only warms while others are shouting, then it goes cold and clammy.
2. A dropped pot not only spills the soup but ruins the pot.
3. A fool is his own worst enemy.
4. A foolish boy will grow into a foolish man.
5. A gifted hustler can sell donkey skins to a beggar.
6. A girl’s tongue and behavior need to be trimmed occasionally.
7. A loaned item gets abused.
8. A loud cock crows from the moment of hatching.
9. A man with his hand in tepid water is not experiencing water like one whose hand is in boiling water.
10. A mother only cries for the sufferings of her family.
11. A mouse fell from the ceiling, and the cat thanked Allah.
12. A person who is careful to avoid deadly situations is called a coward if the threat is obvious and a sage if the danger is abstract.
13. A profligate wants the best of everything in an absurd form.
14. A small space can shelter a thousand friends.
15. A spark can burn a dry forest.
16. A stone-dead man has no friends that he can talk to about his problems.
17. A strong baby cries loudly when it’s time to nurse.
18. A wedding dress is the symbol of a life of willing service dedicated to the bride’s new family.
19. An experienced baker eats his own bread.
20. April rain brings out the best in everything and everyone.
21. Ask one who has experienced the disease how it feels.
22. Be careful of what you say, as even soft words may injure others.
23. Birth is the harbinger of death.
24. Check your neighbors before you buy a house.
25. Cut off the troublemaker’s head, not his dependents’, or they are forced to become thieves.
26. Do not give an opinion on family affairs unless both parties ask, and then side with the positive arguments of both.
27. Don’t be like water, accepting ugly things graciously.
28. Don’t buy fish before they have been caught.
29. Don’t worry about your weariness stopping you because you will keep going as long as you have the desire to succeed.
30. Eternity is just another day to which you must adapt.
31. Even a simple knot can do a good job or fail.
32. Even if she’s the most beautiful, the outcast girl is still called ugly.
33. Even paradise would be intolerable without friends.
34. Every mother sees the good things in her children.
35. Everyday problems will not impede a positive person.
36. Everywhere there is grain, there will be a path to the mill.
37. Friends are like your fingers, they look similar and help one another, but they are all different.
38. God grants time enough to do a good job, but the devil pokes a laggard with a hasty stick.
39. God sends shelled almonds to the toothless.
40. He burns his onions in devilish haste.
41. He eats and sleeps while the donkeys do the work.
42. He fasted mightily but strangely broke his fast on a chive.
43. He gets his bean-size problem so close to his eye it covers the world.
44. He spanked me when I was a child and cried that it hurt him more than me.
45. He took as a bride a rich monkey for her money, but the money was soon gone, and he was living with a monkey.
46. He tried to make his beautiful wife more beautiful but blinded her with the dye.
47. He who has thorns in his words will wound all those who hear them.
48. He who raised a moral son lives on in the good deeds of his son.
49. He’s a beggar and a great bargainer.
50. He’s a fool who brings a bear to a dinner party.
51. He’s like a deaf man applauding Beethoven’s 9th symphony.
52. He’s like a deaf person at a wedding party.
53. He’s so cheap that when he has a dollar in his hand, his knees pinch together.
54. His father was all onions and his mother garlic, so where did that sweet boy come from?
55. I fight my brother, and we two our cousin, and the three of us against the world.
56. If the wind bothers you, shut it out with a heavy coat, close the door, and take a nap.
57. If there is no drum, we must dance to the sound of our stamping feet.
58. If you conduct yourself properly for the situation, you need to fear no one.
59. If you do me a favor, I will return that favor with a bonus.
60. If your friend is like honey, never accept more than just enough.
61. If your neighbor is good, you make beautiful things together, but he will take even the sunlight if he’s bad.
62. In farmland, all roads lead to the barns.
63. In front of you, he’s like a smiling mirror, but behind you, he’s a kick in the pants.
64. In this world, if you are not a wolf, you will be eaten by wolves.
65. It is cruel to the victim for the law not to punish their molester.
66. It is easy to take a stick to beat a dog’s natural friendliness into a groveling cur.
67. It’s is easier to deal with the devils we know than those we don’t.
68. Kind parents can give rise to greedy children.
69. Kiss the arm you can’t break, and let God break it.
70. Let your children make their own mistakes and see the results.
71. Let your heart suffer rather than submit to many people a problem with which they can’t cope.
72. Life without mother, sister, wife, daughter, and granddaughter is a barren desert without any oasis.
73. Lift your hay bale by tilting the opposite side up so the rattlesnake isn’t biting your feet.
74. Maintain your honor by letting your money be insulted and not your character.
75. Make your child into a genius by giving it focused training in utero and every moment thereafter, so language, visual centers, etc., are oriented to the particular task.
76. Marry the girl of a good family though she is seated on the floor.
77. Men are ultimately weakly driven by selfish motives that disappear if there is a serious problem.
78. No one cries for lost money except the one who lost it.
79. Only those upon whom good luck falls get the good things, and our enjoyment must be found in watching.
80. Our ordinary meal is better than the most expensive one from a distant land.
81. Pain in one part of the body affects the whole body, and a person with a headache walks with a limp.
82. Put candy in front of a dieting sweet tooth, and it will vanish.
83. Say to a dying friend, “Leave behind your good deeds!”
84. Someone saying it’s an ear of corn or a roll of dough means he’s indifferent to the facts or outcome.
85. Spend the change in your pocket, and you will get more with your next purchase.
86. Stand back and let fire fight fire, and watermelons fight watermelons.
87. Stay away from what brought other people trouble.
88. Stretch your legs in bed according to your blankets.
89. Talking about your problems with your friends washes them away like soapy water takes dirt from your hands.
90. The drunken moment is gone, and now that you’re sober, you must make amends.
91. The great evildoers benefit from their crimes, and the innocent compliant people do the suffering.
92. The greedy man even picks the hairs of the dead pig’s tail.
93. The guy who’s having a birthday is now a year wiser than you.
94. The land is plowed by oxen that eat of the harvest.
95. The owner of the donkey knows how to get it to work.
96. The road that brought you here will take you back.
97. The rope of a lie is short, but it pulls hard.
98. The sad woman missed her opportunity when she came to the party but was too late to get a seat.
99. The things you own may have uses you haven’t recognized.
100. There is a time, place, and manner to do a job properly, and often that is right now with what you’ve got.
101. They are like pigeons and fly away from the slightest disturbance.
102. They asked the judgmental mother-in-law if she wasn’t a daughter-in-law too.
103. Those exposed to doing a shameful thing will soon die because no one will speak ill of them when they are dead.
104. Those good boys and girls must be reprimanded occasionally to know how it feels.
105. Until he marries, my son is my son, but my daughter is my daughter forever.
106. We accept free vinegar before we buy good honey.
107. We write to generate our eloquence and clarify our thoughts.
108. What is past is dead and gone, even if the person is sitting there drinking.
109. What would you do differently next time if you were here again?
110. When entering a bathroom, begin getting prepared to leave it.
111. When people consider trading life’s problems with a friend, they stick with their own.
112. When someone sells you something, you are now totally responsible for all of its flaws.
113. When the lions are away, the hyenas play havoc.
114. Would you believe a virgin may travel safely alone at midnight, carrying a bag of gold?
115. You thought he was a bad person, but, on close observation, he turned out to be much worse.
116. Your words pull you to your goal like a horse if you treat them right and pull you into trouble if you use them poorly.

Covid logarithmic chart 2022-03-10

I added the average total Covid deaths per day to this chart and it shocked me. It clearly shows the average total deaths per day (Bold RED line) have been remarkably constant for two years. When looking at the numbers in arithmetic form, the numbers seem to jump widely, but when looking at them in the logarithmic form they look strikingly uniform. It may seem like a huge jump from 4,042 on April 1, 2020, compared to 7,800 now, two years later, but when those numbers are compared to the total enormity of the death toll of over six million they seem strangely stable. The death rate wiggled around but not much, and sadly everyone thinks the Covid pandemic is tapering off, but when looking at this chart it isn’t.

Covid logarithmic chart 2022-03-10 – JPG – Includes Averaged total deaths per day. Click image to enlarge.

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Covid logarithmic chart 2022-03-10 – GIF – Includes Averaged total deaths per day. Click image to enlarge.

Guatemala Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

– Proverbs and Co – Spanish Academy – Special Dictionary – Thought Co – World Proverbs

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1. A decision based on false information may lead to catastrophe.
2. A goose in the bag is worth more than a hundred high overhead.
3. A new success takes ninety percent intelligent thinking and ten percent hard work.
4. A person associates with people similar to themselves, and therefore you can see their character exposed by their friends.
5. A weapon is a dangerous enemy to its owner.
6. Accept a gift, give an enthusiastic thank you, and don’t mention its flaws.
7. All cats are black on a dark night, but some are black on a full moon.
8. Better to eat beans in peace than caviar in war.
9. Conversations in one’s home should stay at home.
10. Don’t hate or despise someone for disclosing a true, verifiable fact.
11. Even bad events have their positive aspects, but you must look for them to see them.
12. Everyone has a burden and needs emotional support.
13. Everyone is as old as their heart feels.
14. For a starving man, every bite of bread is wonderful.
15. Foresight can see the cause of a problem and prevent the problem from coming into existence by eliminating it.
16. From such a stick of a man, a splendid splinter came forth.
17. Getting up early doesn’t make the sunrise sooner, but it does get you working sooner.
18. God helps everyone, but those helping themselves get the most help.
19. Gold is valued because it reacts very slowly with other elements and therefore maintains a lustrous surface.
20. Good deeds are expressions of love, and good words will warm lonely hearts.
21. He who can’t take a little risk will never win a big prize.
22. He who has foresight enough to avoid the temptations can work on what needs to get done.
23. He who has no obligations is free to do anything he can do.
24. He who has nothing has nothing to lose.
25. He who walks with wolves must be a pack member or the leader, which means fighting and beating the toughest wolf.
26. Human experience has been codified into laws limiting behavior and proverbs to facilitate daily life.
27. If you want a dog, you must also support the hundred species that live on the dog.
28. Ignorance is unafraid, stupidity is foolhardy, and wisdom is meticulous.
29. In the flickering light of a candle, all women are beautiful.
30. It takes special knowledge to convert good wine into excellent vinegar.
31. Let your every action help someone live better, and none live worse.
32. Love is blinded by the first sighting of its ideal.
33. Misfortunes precipitate other misfortunes where an imbalance of forces exists.
34. Overspending in moments of prosperity creates debts, worry, and suffering.
35. Quiet water makes no noise.
36. Returning property to its owner will help you sleep better.
37. Tell the truth in ways that help people live better without causing them pain.
38. The devil knows more from experience than from being evil.
39. The discovery of a workable concept to a completed product requires an Elon Musk.
40. The nasty talk of a parrot is learned from his friends.
41. The only person who can change a man’s character is the man himself.
42. Time destroys everything by returning it to chaos, and life is a temporary anomaly that permits one to create meaning where none existed.
43. Ultimately everything defined as good must be balanced by what is described as bad.
44. What the eyes do not see, the heart does not desire.
45. What you have done is part of nature’s history, to which your only option is to adapt and move on.
46. Whoever doesn’t teach his son a useful way to make a living compels him to make a living in antisocial ways.
47. You are only as competitive as your most shiftless friend.
48. Your greatest thief lives in your own house, which includes you and everyone else, including your goldfish, all of which must be fed.
49. Your heart is a child wanting what your mind strives to get.

Romania Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.
– Inspirational Stories – Proverbicals – Teacher Finder – Wikiquote

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There have been over a thousand proverbs posted as Romanian. This is the 64th Probaway post on this subject of proverbs sorted on the population size of a country. They were searched on Google as “[country] proverbs”, combining as many of the top 30 on their list as possible to make a complete collection of each country. Those collected proverbs were put on Notepad to make it possible to clean the total text down to the proverbs themselves. That collection was then alphabetized using OpenOfficeWriter, and the duplicate proverbs and the extraneous data removed. That was then put back into Notepad to remove all hidden code, copied again over into WordPress + Grammarly. Then in Grammarly, it is possible to rewrite the list of proverbs for the Aphor Game. That name is a unique contraction of “aphorism game.” The goal is to make it possible for people to discover useful ideas latent in human knowledge which haven’t been discovered.

Here is an example of how capable people are of discovering obvious ideas:

In 1935 the world-changing DC-3 passenger airplane was introduced. At that time the Commercial airlines were already offering routine personal help to their passengers on Ford trimotors, by workers then named stewardesses. These women dressed in job-identifying uniforms became essential to the comfort of the passengers. The stewardesses were carrying their luggage, for 60 years, while wearing tight clothing and high heel shoes. The passengers and other aircrew were also carrying their luggage around the airports. However, it wasn’t until 1991 the modern suitcase with a handle and wheels on the bottom was invented. There were billions of hours of people sitting in airplanes and terminals with absolutely nothing to think about, and yet no one thought of putting wheels on the suitcases, for 60 years.

The Aphor Game is important because it stimulates people, like you, to see connections between things and ideas that you already know. The Aphor Game will put wheels on your thoughts.

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The short-list of Romania Proverbs

1. A bean soup eaten in liberty is more to be wished for than turkey dinner without it.
2. A clear blue sky rarely experiences lightning.
3. A desperate man can’t think rationally, and good advice can’t be processed into good actions.
4. A foreign-language speaker has trouble helping you.
5. A huge ship requires an ocean’s depths to function as designed, but a rowboat does well in shallow water.
6. A liar only speaks the truth when he is too sick to think up lies.
7. A mirror is scary to people with frightening faces.
8. A needle is small, but it creates beautiful things.
9. A single step is a moment of living.
10. A squeaking door is quieted with a tiny drop of oil.
11. A woman’s tongue is her most effective weapon.
12. Advice after the event is energy better spent sucking on one’s thumb.
13. Advice will always be rejected when it’s needed the most.
14. Alcohol removes inhibitions, but some of them serve you well.
15. Are you worse off for always wanting a thing and never getting it?
16. Ax handles are made of hickory trees, and yet there is no malice.
17. Balance your best option with the least evil one.
18. Be friendly with everyone, even the devil, until you are well past his zone of control.
19. Beautiful gloves can cover hands with ugly burn scars.
20. Before you find God, devils will beat on you and saints too.
21. Better a healthy mouse well cooked in the pot than nothing to eat.
22. Better a loved ugly ducking in your village than a hated princess in a palace.
23. Bite your heart and do your duty.
24. Calm water like rushing water is supported by its bed.
25. Changing governments always bring chaos, but a stable point is usually reached in a few years.
26. Do household cleaning by starting high and working down, as dirt and dribbles obey gravity.
27. Don’t burn your blanket because it had a flea.
28. Don’t saw on the branch on which you’re sitting.
29. Enjoy your childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood, maturity, and geriatric years when the opportunity is apparent.
30. Even a hair casts a shadow.
31. Even in paradise, you need some friends and interesting problems.
32. Every atom provides its weight.
33. Every sin committed secretly brings a lurking threat of exposure and punishment.
34. Eyes that don’t see eye to eye soon ignore each other.
35. Fathers sometimes change to look and behave like their successful sons.
36. Fine words over an ordinary dinner make it taste better.
37. For a moment, we can forget a misery that is ubiquitous with the thought of some beautiful thing.
38. God and a cow will provide milk, but you must provide the pail and the milking hands.
39. Good breeding always shows itself.
40. Good people don’t talk nonsense, but they are humorous.
41. He who never rode a horse never suffered a fall.
42. He who turns to the law for help returns home in impoverished.
43. He’s so dedicated that he will jump in with his clothes on.
44. Hot angry words are not so destructive as cold, nasty ones.
45. Hunger for food is direct, if intermittent, but a desire for carnal things is tortuous.
46. If someone doesn’t understand you, they think you’re stupid.
47. If you consider marriage, visit your girlfriend’s family and imagine living with her mother.
48. If you have something to contribute to the betterment of humanity or the world, give it now.
49. If you love roses when young, expect thorns when you’re old.
50. If you must obey, do it with grace.
51. If you wish for the advice of experience , ask an old man about his failures.
52. It doesn’t solve your problem to be so angry you could eat a whole cow, including the tail.
53. It is common wisdom that flies like honey and hate vinegar, but I suggest you put that idea to an empirical test.
54. It’s overly optimistic to say that in a hundred years, you will be dead; even one year may be optimistic.
55. It’s the movements of the eyes that express the emotions within the person.
56. Let the pot boil for a few minutes to kill bacteria and make everything taste better.
57. Let unpleasant words be ignored, and enjoy the beauty of the day.
58. Life imitates art, and art imitates life, like a ping pong game.
59. Live and encourage all life to live fully, and explore their life niches.
60. Love is beyond rationality and spans enigmatic obstacles.
61. Many of the injuries to your well-being, a good friend can cure.
62. Mice return to their holes in the ground seeking safety and eagles to their nests in trees reaching for the sky.
63. No matter what the weather is now, it will soon change.
64. One itch scratched generates two that need scratching.
65. Opening old wounds hurts and may cause a deadly infection.
66. Our comics keep people laughing because the truth hurts too much for them to endure without laughing.
67. Out of a bird’s egg comes a bird, and out of a devil’s egg comes a devil.
68. Patience is a virtue if used in moderation.
69. People who are giving advice are telling themselves what they would do in those circumstances.
70. People who fear to wake up in the dark leave a candle burning.
71. Poverty is the reward of previous decisions to do the easiest thing.
72. Proceed at the speed which gets things done at an acceptable quality.
73. Sitting between two chairs is as difficult as paddling two canoes because you are supported by neither one nor the other.
74. Snake tamers are the ones most frequently bitten.
75. Some people consume their energy in talking, others in getting things done.
76. Speak to the heart of the person in front of you because it’s what they feel, not what they think.
77. The clothing of a saint may hide a devil.
78. The eyes speak the same language, but the people behind the eyes live in different societies.
79. The laws of nature moved precisely through entropy until living things found ways to shift it a bit.
80. The natural law of propinquity is that similar mineral things collect together, and similar living things like people attract similar people.
81. The same piece of wood can be a rowing oar or a beating club.
82. The thief who we haven’t caught we accept as an honest man.
83. The tongue is softer than steel, but it cuts deeper.
84. The urge of heroes is to save their friends at whatever their own cost.
85. The world is unjust, and a man is remembered for his words, not his actions.
86. The world will return only half the love you give it, but that is enough if you give a little.
87. Things we feel will last forever often vanish overnight.
88. Thoughts are the mind making up reasons to explain what the heart is feeling.
89. Time fosters entropy, so enjoy the current situation before it degrades into chaos.
90. To do two or more things well requires setting time and place limits on each of them, and never permitting overlaps.
91. Too much of a good thing is as destructive of happiness as too little of it.
92. Treat the guard at a checkpoint like your favorite uncle until you are long gone.
93. True words are often spoken in jest and get a grudging laugh, but falsehoods are more interesting and expressed as sober faith.
94. Under an old coat, there may be an old man with great wisdom.
95. Watch and hear but be quiet, and choose your actions to be friendly and helpful.
96. We all speak some dog language, like a growl, a territorial bark from a distance, a snarl, and a whimper.
97. We must make our way where we presently are located.
98. We must take an opportunity when it appears, as it may never occur again.
99. We should have some fear of death as it might be painful, but not of being dead, as it has no demonstrated expression of awareness.
100. What he held in his hand was real, but what he said with his mouth was untestable belief.
101. Whatever comes into your net, you must haul in and remove.
102. When a fox clothed in black robes is going to be preaching, leave your valuables at home and bring noisy pocket change.
103. When a mother is fifty and her daughter is thirty, they might look and act like sisters.
104. When a person in misery is sleeping, don’t wake them and return them to their pain.
105. When coming into this world, choose your parents carefully.
106. Where nature is growing grass this spring, it is a good year for you to plant your grassy crops.
107. Where there is smoke, there is smoke and only the probability that fire produced it.
108. Who bites his tongue and is silent speaks no words he will regret.
109. Winter will ask what crops you cultivated last summer, and if you are found wanting, you will have a hungry spring.
110. With hard, knotty wood, you must have sharp tools and hone them frequently.
111. Women are the most fickle things on Earth.
112. Women wearing long skirts have short minds.
113. You go to a tavern for the same reason you go to church, to have some community, talk, and a touch of booze.
114. You need not do everything right now, but you shouldn’t put them off too long either.
115. You should never pour gasoline on a fire.
116. Your seeing examples of evil will corrupt your good behaviors.
117. Your wife’s eyes are in your wallet.

Kazakh Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.

IK-PTZ – Kazakh nomad – Omniglot – OrexCA – World Proverbs

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1. A bazaar needs cash for transactions, as bartering creates frustration.
2. A child learns as he grows from birth, a wife from her moment of marriage.
3. A child’s deeds are refined with experience.
4. A child’s home is a wild bazaar, but the childless home is like a quiet grave.
5. A colt may soon surpass the horse, and a son his father.
6. A cow with a good heifer is good, and a woman with a good child is good.
7. A crow knows how to live on its local land better than a hawk from afar.
8. A divided people will drift apart, and the leader’s job is to provide an organizing principle of external threat.
9. A field looks abandoned if it has not been planted, and a man looks lonely if he doesn’t have a Motherland to return to when needed.
10. A foal will be challenging to others but will stay with the herd.
11. A goose may fly away, and a man may travel, but they both long to return to their homeland.
12. A guest comes and leaves his sorrows behind and brings his happiness into our house.
13. A horse gives wings to a man, but food gives him strength.
14. A horse loves oats, and the earth benefits from its manure.
15. A housebuilder will walk through a forest looking for lumber to build his next house.
16. A little sparrow defends its nest.
17. A man can be quicker to understand than others around him, but he can’t have more experience than the whole community.
18. A man is only a visiting guest in his own world.
19. A man suffers the absence of his wife, but she is only part of his Motherland which is his total existence.
20. A market is a place where there is rampant deception.
21. A merchant is a spoon that brings one part of the sea to another place in the sea.
22. A people without a leader is like a person without a purpose-generating heart and organizing head.
23. A people without thieves is like a land without wolves to clear away the incautious.
24. A poor judge talks a lot, but a fair judge is brief and clear.
25. A river can meander and flow in many ways, but living forms explore absolutely every niche.
26. A road is how people get closer to and apart from other people.
27. A wolf has an insatiable desire to eat sheep and men to raise more sheep.
28. All is smiles and peace until the first bullet.
29. All the thoughts of a starving person are food, food, food!
30. An eagle shares his food with his man, but an owl will hide his food even from himself.
31. An onion is sweeter than honey if your family is sharing it.
32. Any land is good, but my Motherland is the most pleasing.
33. Cattle are better at finding lost cattle than men.
34. Cheap can be a bargain or a trap for shabby (so-called) goods.
35. Days, nights, and weather are always beautiful when you are home.
36. Death comes to the beautiful as well as the ugly.
37. Death steals a wealthy man’s cattle and gives them away.
38. Demonstrate to a child what needs to be done, and afterward praise him for what he accomplished.
39. Do not consider a sorcerer for a spouse, nor a dominant bull as common cattle.
40. Do not live in a country where there isn’t an honest leader.
41. Don’t accept a guest’s money, but honor their gratitude.
42. Drops of water pulled by gravity, collected in lower places will form a river.
43. Each country has different laws and unique breeds of dogs.
44. Earth gives, and life devours.
45. Eat horse meat, and if you are a Kazakh, you enjoy it.
46. Even a ground squirrel feels strong and happy when it’s in its home.
47. Even if I cannot be rich in my Motherland, I would be happy to be buried there.
48. Good parents will rarely produce a bad child, but bad parents will often have a bad child.
49. Happiness does not abandon good people, and criminality doesn’t abandon their host.
50. He who leads the people will swallow butter, but those who lag behind the people will eat dust.
51. He who travels to other countries can suggest to his Motherland’s people other ways of doing things.
52. How much honor and accolades can one endure without becoming pretentious?
53. If a guest comes on a visit, run to the door and greet them with effusive enthusiasm.
54. If a horse misses his fellows, it stamps its hooves, but if a man misses his friends, he gets on his horse and rides to meet them.
55. If an honored guest comes for a visit, greet him warmly and throw a bone to his dog.
56. If meat loses its flavor, cattle rustling will cease.
57. If money is available, barter ends, and trade flourishes.
58. If not for the myriad of small sources, the river would be gone.
59. If the people are united by their leaders, generating a desirable common goal, they ignore their former hostilities.
60. If the soil is fertile, the cows will have healthy milk.
61. If you buy a horse, buy one your whole village will like.
62. If you cut down a tree, plant ten immediately and ten more next year.
63. If you have a girl, you have worries she will have conditions that you will be responsible for solving.
64. If you keep your sickle sharp, you will harvest more crops.
65. If your house has no food, your dog will wander away.
66. If your Motherland is strong, no one will attack it or you.
67. If your wife gave birth to a daughter for my son, we could become kinsmen.
68. Instead of your bequeathing cattle that are temporary, you should leave trees that are useful for decades to come.
69. Iron is tested by fire and your children by distress.
70. It is easier to be a servant to six people than to lead five.
71. It is easier to cook porridge for a hundred people than be a boss over ten.
72. Let the ground welcome him and let him lie in soft ground.
73. Love of the Motherland begins with the love of your mother.
74. Motherland is the mother to all of the people residing within her.
75. My family is wealthy, so I will not be poor.
76. Never enter a seedy place, and never live in a leaderless country.
77. No matter how carefully you treat a wolf puppy, when he grows the mountains call him, and he calls back.
78. No one can stop people from talking to their friends.
79. One can be better than a neighbor, but not better than the people.
80. One can live without a leg or eye, but not without people.
81. One’s native land is a paradise for everybody born and raised there.
82. People are happier when they rule themselves and choose what they need to do to make a living.
83. People’s gratitude is proof of their grace.
84. Snow and rain feed the earth, and it gives us our crops.
85. The approving eyes of your family can warm your heart better than foreign sunshine.
86. The child learns to walk by falling down, getting up and walking again.
87. The child who does not cry is not given milk.
88. The child’s wrongdoing can’t be secret for long.
89. The fatherless orphan will not learn honor, and a motherless orphan will grow up in sorrow.
90. The fresh air of your Motherland can cure what ails you.
91. The guest and the host both worry but for different reasons.
92. The guest will not be satisfied with words, but wants the toilet and something to eat.
93. The happiest people are in their own land.
94. The history of a land is the history of the people living there now.
95. The man who does not know his people can not see the qualities of other people.
96. The people do not talk of idle things but of those things that are important to them and useful.
97. The people talk together to discover what is essential and what they can do to help.
98. The people without a leader is like a land without mountains and valleys.
99. The people’s combined strength is powerful and overwhelming, like a mudslide.
100. The people’s wrath will destroy an evil man in a fortress.
101. The rope will break at its thinnest point.
102. There are no people without problems and conflicts and no land without those who envy and hate them.
103. There are no villages without their wise elders.
104. There is gold in some other people’s lands, and yet our Motherland is more valuable to us than theirs with its gold.
105. There is no land without beautiful sons and flowers.
106. There is no wall that the people can not surmount.
107. To a crow, its child appears as pure as snow, and to the hedgehog, his child is as soft as down feathers.
108. To betray your Motherland is like burying yourself alive to smother.
109. To go against a people is to go backward while swimming upstream.
110. Trade occurs while each man is stroking his smiling chin.
111. Water flows where there is a visible bed, and the grass will grow where there are visible signs of previous grass.
112. What a boy will become is evident from his childhood.
113. What the old have seen, the youth will see later.
114. When a welcome guest arrives, the sheep brings forth twins.
115. When good food is served, we forget our problems.
116. When people are seeking companions, they find them.
117. When people stand up, they are reaching into what was a moment ago the sky.
118. When sisters-in-law are friendly, there is plenty of good food.
119. When the land has many trees, the people become rich in cattle.
120. Whoever has betrayed his own people and stuffed his belly while they starved will not live for two more days.
121. Without the expense of time, labor or treasure, there will be no acquisition of needed things.
122. You can mistreat your child, and he will stay home, but you can lock up another’s child, and he will find a way to escape.
123. You cannot give a girl enough clothes to make her content with what she has in her closet.
124. You cannot resurrect a dead person with screams, tears, or money.
125. You didn’t go too far astray if you found your way home.
126. You may not be the genetic son of your father, but you can be the revered son of your people.
127. You need health, a good wife, and five sheep for a successful life.