Zambia Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

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1. A bamboo shoot is too flexible for solid construction.
2. A belching toad portends rain if you wait long enough.
3. A child who refuses to learn from suggestions, commands, or bruises will soon have scars.
4. A combination of individuals can do things a single one can’t, and vice versa.
5. A crazy man may drop a diamond ring into a well, but the wise men can’t get it out.
6. A dominant bull is identified by its plentiful combat scars.
7. A fat woman warms in the night better than a good fire.
8. A fool forgets the past, enjoys the present and ignores tomorrow.
9. A foresight followed with early decisions, actions, movements, mornings, and late evenings will bring success.
10. A friend with the right stuff can do more good than your family lacking it.
11. A leopard can never change its spots and would go hungry if it did.
12. A man who marries your mother must be respected as your father.
13. A monkey that steals your food is behaving correctly for a monkey.
14. A person being stingy doesn’t do themselves or others any good.
15. A person is hated for his superior qualities.
16. A person who does a foolish thing will forget and do it again years later.
17. A short period of avoidance of a habit doesn’t eliminate it.
18. A slave has ideas, and some of them will be worth a king’s hearing.
19. A stitch in time saves nine repair stitches.
20. A thief feels he will eventually be exposed for his crimes.
21. A wild dog is best beaten when hit in the head.
22. A woman without family or teeth is left to the lions.
23. Adjust your habits and character by mingling as an equal with those you wish to become.
24. After you greet someone with a friendly smile, observe their underlying happiness and health.
25. Although your mother might be dirty, hear her wisdom.
26. An archer carries an extra bowstring; it is small and light and rarely needed, but without it he may get killed.
27. An untiring hunter brings home the meat.
28. Annoying habits like farting are impossible to change after eating beans.
29. As my mother carried me as a child, I will hold her up in her old age.
30. At birth, one little arm follows another.
31. Bad character exposes itself as bad behavior, which it can’t hide for long.
32. Being sandwiched between two fat women warms even the coldest night.
33. Being the first to understand events doesn’t mean you will do the right thing.
34. Choose a powerful goal for society to pursue and pursue it yourself.
35. Clean up the place where you are about to sit or are to depart.
36. Displaying a needy child in public gets other people involved in helping it survive.
37. Do not believe a convict when he tells you that he was condemned unjustly, but investigate the facts.
38. Do not insult people who you will later need for help.
39. Do not speak of your prosperity as it creates envy and jealousy.
40. Do what needs doing, discover the needed skills and practice them until you are competent.
41. Do your job at the speed that will achieve the level of perfection you want.
42. Don’t abandon your wife, as she will help get you through your problems better than anyone.
43. Don’t let too many people handle your things, or they will get lost.
44. Don’t make promises, but if you do, make certain you fulfill them properly.
45. Don’t postpone for never what can be done now.
46. Don’t rely on your friends to provide for you; strive for the betterment of your own life.
47. Don’t say anything about a group problem until you can make a positive contribution.
48. Don’t start a fight with others just because your companions are strong.
49. Don’t throw yourself into other people’s troubles.
50. Even trees fixed in the earth annoy one another in a strong wind.
51. Every dog knows that if you love the hand that feeds you, it will feed you in the future.
52. Everything is unique, and we must encounter it as a particular event.
53. Famous people’s autobiographies mention that, as a teenager, they set a life goal and listed the steps needed to get there.
54. Friends who are loaners will not be much help when cooperation is needed.
55. Get started immediately with later adaptations expected, not rejected, and let perfection result from tested improvements.
56. God’s riddles are straightforward, but it takes science to unpack them.
57. Good opportunities may be seen by thoughtful men, but they favor the men of action.
58. Good people and events are more easily forgotten than bad ones.
59. Great undertakings take forethought, time, and energy, so get started now!
60. Hard work comes with high honors, but be prepared to handle honor, bad times, and rejection.
61. Have preparations for big problems, like a fire, readily at hand.
62. Have three places where you and your savings are secure from catastrophe.
63. He is a bad man who stinks.
64. He spent his money on a woman and died in the famine.
65. He who appears to be helpful must be proven not to have an evil heart.
66. He who falls into a deep pit doesn’t rise without help.
67. He who gives a little will give a little more.
68. He who has a mild fever from infection might improve with a little extra heat.
69. He who paddles two canoes soon swims between them.
70. He who stores food in times of plenty may save many in a time of famine.
71. He who stubbornly keeps trying after many failures is sometimes spectacularly successful.
72. I am because of humanity’s past, but I now am because I am me.
73. I am friendly and harmless unless provoked, and then I am dangerous.
74. I am not made for work; nature made me to eat, avoid danger and make viable children.
75. I can survive without the aid of the orator or the wealthy.
76. I live my life comfortably and don’t want to live with your problems.
77. If something is part of nature’s plan, it will pull inevitabilities into completed actions.
78. If you are satisfied with what you have, enjoy it, and ignore the endless quest for better.
79. If you are ugly, develop a social skill like dancing.
80. If you have lost your teeth, you must cook your food until it is soft.
81. If you insist on too much of anything, you will soon suffer.
82. If you share with your neighbors your surpluses, they will share theirs with you.
83. If you want to know about the edibility of a mushroom, ask an expert.
84. Individuals don’t hear the call of the community’s need, but individuals must do the work to fix those problems.
85. It is during childhood that permanent strengths and injuries become permanent.
86. It is easy to work productively when you know your efforts are bringing the goal closer.
87. It takes two or more pieces of firewood to maintain a camp fire.
88. It’s when a chicken fluffs out its feathers that it looks big.
89. Jump over a log but don’t get excited over your neighbor’s plans.
90. Liars prosper from their deceits until they don’t and then die early.
91. Life is short so use it to be helpful rather than hurtful to others.
92. Like a wild bird, you choose what you like and dislike.
93. Luck is a random thing, and ultimately it balances good and bad.
94. Marriage is bound into your heart at the center of your being.
95. Mighty is always right, except when it gets beaten, then it vanishes forever.
96. Monkey mothers share their food with their kids.
97. No one can work on an empty stomach.
98. Obey the advice of those who know the world, or you will get hurt.
99. On the days you are having bad luck, even warm soup feels cold.
100. One day of rest from an onerous job is essential, but taking a day off from a life calling is a punishment.
101. One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.
102. One who helps you walk in the night is to be thanked in the day.
103. One who intends to swim does not stand for long on the dock.
104. Only a person asking how to change a habit should be given suggestions.
105. Only mathematicians are proud of making seemingly impossible things simple.
106. Our children are like the forests of our future world.
107. Our problems at home need not be broadcast to the public.
108. People living with problems must find and fix the causes themselves.
109. Plans for making adaptations after testing is complete are part of the process for finding solutions.
110. Prepare before the need because it is too late to assemble what’s needed for the action when action is needed.
111. Respect the realities that come with existence.
112. Sidestep exhibits of dangerous temptations that lead you astray, but show the ones encouraging you to succeed.
113. Sit down with the elders and you will eat sparingly, but keep standing and you will eat nothing.
114. Some decisions must be made, and after due consideration, make yours clear and firm.
115. Speak quietly to your dog, but have a stick in your hand.
116. Sports are activities that promote practice, and these are useful to achieve needed skills that have other applications.
117. Stolen things are only objects possessed and not earned and loved.
118. Take care of your internal health, as the external appearance of health is easy to fake.
119. The child of a wise person never starves because their security was preplanned.
120. The crow who can fly to discover food needn’t worry about chickens scratching for it.
121. The early bird may catch the worms, but the scratchers in the dry ground get the grain.
122. The Earth is a sphere; sit in a rowboat and watch another boat go over the horizon equidistantly in any direction.
123. The elders may not see a thrown stone, but their warnings are based on the experience of previously thrown stones.
124. The elders use their hindsight of experience to generate foresight of probable futures.
125. The first to depart don’t always get to the destination first.
126. The foresight of danger is forewarned with foreboding, or forborne, which then may be forecast and forestalled, and forgotten.
127. The good die too young, even at a hundred years.
128. The king lives in the castle above the town, and below the poor live without sanitation and with the open sewers’ stink.
129. The mouth is the source of many troubles; it eats too much sweet and speaks too much bitter.
130. The shark who has eaten your pal isn’t interested in eating you.
131. The stick you have in hand can chase a snarling dog away.
132. The victim in a war doesn’t know the weapon or its wielder and might like them if they did.
133. The weight of a personal burden is known only to the one carrying it.
134. There is nothing that is hidden from God’s natural reality.
135. There may be annoying things lurking in your mind that don’t expose themselves until you are talking to your friends.
136. There must be a reason for an elder’s repeated cautions.
137. Things we want done can often be finished by a group better than alone.
138. Those who laugh at others’ mistakes are often making the same mistakes themselves.
139. Those who will not work toward a worthy goal, and only work to avoid punishing survival needs, are to be avoided.
140. To cut down a tree, you must have an ax as well as the will to succeed.
141. To face obscure challenges, we need a leader who can create a clear goal.
142. Tomorrow is unknowable, so use what you have today.
143. Too much of anything is too much, and it will bring pain.
144. Treat people well, which means well in what they are expecting.
145. Treat the days well, and they will treat your evenings and nights well.
146. Treat the women you encounter with heartfelt respect.
147. Use what you have in your hands.
148. Verify the facts before making an assessment of wrong-doing.
149. Walking together and conversing encourages a wholesome friendship.
150. We discover who we really are, when we listen to people who have known us a long time.
151. We inherit our bodies and learn our core beliefs and behaviors from our parents.
152. We know best where we are and what we have to use to cope with our problems.
153. We laugh at other people’s antics without noticing ours are even sillier.
154. We look into the eyes and not the mouth of those speaking.
155. We must always express gratitude for the tiniest gift.
156. We must first weed out the bitter roots to get rid of anger.
157. We naturally take care of our families before we attend to aliens.
158. We need to be prudent in our physical actions, and civil when with people.
159. We should listen to everyone because lived experience is unique.
160. We should observe a person’s health before asking them for anything.
161. We will never correct the failings of others, but we may appreciate them as they are.
162. What you do, hidden darkness will influence your daylight thoughts.
163. What you love and trust sometimes goes away.
164. Whatever his appearance, a man sent by the king is worthy of respect.
165. When encountering people with a firm bite on an opinion, pull gently on the facts.
166. When giving evidence it must be with utmost truth and clarity.
167. When one commits a bad act, he goes far away for fear of being caught.
168. When problems come along, keep your attention on doing your present task properly.
169. When visiting another man’s house, expect him to receive better care from his wife than you will get from her.
170. When we lack factual proofs it is desirable, before action, to ask someone who does have them.
171. When we strive toward a worthy goal, we expect bumps and prepare to face them with candor.
172. When you are at another person’s dinner table you must appreciate what is offered.
173. When you are on good terms with one another, you can play in any way you want.
174. When you are rich, be generous to others because fortune may shine on your friends someday.
175. When you have made up your mind to do something, do it at once.
176. When your home is certain, it is the best place on Earth.
177. Whether alone or in a group, be self-reliant in your thoughts and actions.
178. While in a forest, you can’t worry about every twig that snaps.
179. You can know the kind of person by the friends he chooses and who choose him.
180. You can lie to a woman but not to your traveling companion; you will sooner or later get exposed.
181. You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but never your wife.
182. You don’t become a chicken by eating a drum-stick.
183. You have to look after wealth, but knowledge looks after you.
184. You may hide anything from men, but everything is part of reality, which can be discovered and revealed.
185. You never forget a skill that you have mastered.
186. You understand a man by his behavior when hungry.
187. You walk away in the morning seeking wealth and adventure, but always come home at night to eat, converse and sleep.
188. You were lucky you weren’t caught last time, but you will also be punished for last time if caught this time.
189. Your ill-gotten gains may be flaunted, but you can’t mention how you got them.
190. Your shoes will bump one another.

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The Covid pandemic is easing at the moment, and here in Oregon, the government is easing the masking restrictions next week. It may be a little premature, but fewer people are dying and everyone else is tired of the whole thing.

One damn thing after another. It’s now Putin’s invasion of Ukraine creating misery for everyone in the world.

Chile Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

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1. A dog that doesn’t search won’t find a bone.
2. A good shadow will protect you if you sit near a good tree.
3. Days will follow days for the rest of humanity’s existence.
4. Don’t give thanks for a favor never delivered.
5. Everybody has pain, and expressing our pain to others reinforces the truth of our pain.
6. Get up! The sun is rising.
7. God and time cure our sickness, but we must pay the doctor.
8. God hears you when you speak clearly to Him.
9. He has no trust in God to provide, who plans for tomorrow.
10. He who divides and shares always keeps the best.
11. He who follows his dream finds it.
12. He who is traveling over dry land must drink enough water.
13. He who is warned in time avoids the problem.
14. He who never finds love doesn’t truly live.
15. He who travels to Portugal loses his seat in Chile.
16. I hope that all that happens is as joyful as a dream.
17. If we accept that everyone is living with some illusions, we should carefully search for ours.
18. If you feel too weak to face reality, then a bad rumor is more comforting than bad news.
19. If you have a dog, you too will have fleas.
20. Learn to see bad behavior in others and yourself, and then discover the precursors and develop better responses when they appear.
21. Life is so short that God will provide us with future friendships in Heaven.
22. Many feel that personal selfishness is good but condemn it in others.
23. My life is up and down, a balance of sad and happy.
24. Never put more shit on other people than you could endure.
25. Personal anguish is your worst adviser when dealing with public responsibilities.
26. Pray to God and keep working.
27. Sometimes union is a winning strength, but often individual behavior has the advantage.
28. Speak to others from the loving places in your heart.
29. The country is sick, but there are opportunities.
30. The birds trust God to feed them day by day.
31. We are all composed of a doctor, poet, and fool.
32. When your ambitious statements are greater than your ability to deliver, your sack of promises will burst and spill on the ground.
33. Where distrust enters, love withers.
34. You know a man by the people who love him and those who don’t.

Malawi Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

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1. A bamboo cane will form round jets of water, and a group of people counseling together will create a smooth stream.
2. A diplomat should be friendly, yielding, and flexible like a vine that can go anywhere and survive.
3. A donkey expresses ingratitude by kicking those loading his back with too much stuff.
4. A king’s deer wearing a golden chain can escape into the forest to browse on leaves, fruits, and nuts, but it can exist on grass.
5. A muddy buffalo rubs against the next one, and soon the whole herd is muddy.
6. A new broom sweeps light things well, a half-worn one is still good, but a stubby one is best used outdoors for clearing pebbles from raw dirt.
7. A single arrow doesn’t kill a snake instantly.
8. A sparrow will pursue big birds from behind, but it isn’t to mate; it is to chase them away.
9. A tree’s leaves fall and nurture the coming year’s leaves.
10. A whale may be huge, but a small harpoon can steal his life.
11. All things fastened securely together are still separable.
12. Ants die from too much raw sugar.
13. Anything with scales counts as a fish for religious purposes.
14. Beating a drum is not injuring it but making it sing.
15. Buffaloes are restrained by ropes and fences, a man by his words and social conventions.
16. Crime leaves a trail, and a conspicuous one for a successful criminal is squandering unearned money.
17. Don’t be a guest like an uninvited mosquito that sucks the host’s blood.
18. Don’t buy rounds of beer to cultivate friends because you will attract sycophants.
19. Don’t worry about people’s names from your youth, as they are probably totally different personalities by now.
20. Every creature adapts its walking style to its current situation.
21. Every man feels like a king in his palace and a prince in his bed.
22. Fish are hard to catch when they have options of food items.
23. Grief primes you for the emotions of hope and love.
24. He can see an ant a mile away but is unaware of an elephant standing on his toes.
25. Humans are naturally naked, but flies are attracted to our poopy parts, so we wear loincloths where it’s hot and clothes where it’s cold.
26. If you dive into a pickle pot, go deep.
27. If you have good things, share them with your friends, and when you have a need, ask around for help.
28. In Malawi, the green flies eat the most fragrant flowers.
29. Incense is useless except for burning small quantities for its unique fragrance.
30. It is a natural law that where there are herbivores, there will be carnivores, and in an open ocean, where there are ships, there will be pirates.
31. It is bad to fall from a ladder, but the ladder will land on you to add indignity to disaster.
32. It is natural for wood to float, stones to sink, and for fat people to float, and skinny ones to sink.
33. It’s a waste of time waiting for the day when cats will grow horns.
34. One day of rain brings bounty to a whole year of drought.
35. One doesn’t make a new shield while on a battlefield.
36. Rocks can endure many years of rain, but not an eternity.
37. Socialize with the crowd you’re within, blow a horn with elephants, crow with roosters, and bleat with the sheep.
38. Spend a little time away from your wife to regain your appreciation of her, and she of you.
39. The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
40. The cow leading the herd gets whipped for not leading, but it’s the last camel in a caravan that gets the whippings for lagging.
41. The cradle is rocked continuously, but the baby is still crying if it’s sick.
42. The less soup in the pot, the more spoons are waiting to get it.
43. The more shoots there are, the more leaves, the more crop to harvest.
44. The mouth kills the body by eating too much, drinking too much, or saying too much.
45. The response for a received kindness is to pay it forward.
46. The shortsighted fool will reject suggestions from a foresighted sage because there is no clear and present danger.
47. The whip that drives a herd of cattle brings them to a better pasture.
48. The widow is just as angry as the horse that threw her.
49. There is a natural order for things, and an egg never sits on a hen.
50. Things like women that are left-right symmetrical and vertically banded with functions are considered beautiful.
51. Those eating your food in plentiful times will be putting you at risk of starving after a season with a poor crop.
52. Use appropriate tools; an ax for chopping wood and crewel needles for embroidery.
53. Venomous snakes are equally dangerous regardless of age.
54. Watch out for the tiny hot peppers, as they are the hottest.
55. We all will die, but our tombs will differ until the Earth dies.
56. We set off to climb a low mountain believing it would be easy.
57. When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers have easier access to the new accumulation of bugs.
58. When a fetus, he’s a man wrapped in his mother’s womb; as an adult, in his family traditions; as a corpse, he is wrapped in the Earth.
59. When a silent individual departs a conversation, it changes.
60. When it’s warm, the pea plant breaks open its pods and spreads its seeds.
61. When spilling a drop, you will reflexively jiggle and spill more.
62. When the curry is tasty, the rice is harder to chew.
63. When the sky is driven away by the Sun, the Earth will melt.
64. When we are not paying attention to our chewing, our teeth remind us by biting our tongue.
65. When you have finished eating, tidy up your space before you leave.
66. When you take a shower, clean your whole body.
67. Where there is food, there will be creatures like mice and children who will eat it.
68. Wisdom is the product of forethought, and most people only learn from bitter experiences to see the forerunners of painful events.
69. You are always in the ocean’s grasp when offshore but occasionally within a tsunami’s limits.
70. You are left dangling and hanging onto a building if you leaned to the side and the ladder fell the other away.
71. You can double your applause by clapping your separate hands against your chest.
72. You can measure many things and track their progression through time, but his shifting words and actions are the measures of a man’s heart.
73. You can pick up a pebble with one finger if you curl around it.
74. You don’t have to teach a tiger cub to eat meat.
75. You might be eaten by crocodiles when crossing a river, but don’t drag your fingers in the water because carnivorous fish will bite them.
76. You must come out of your house to learn the ways of the world.
77. You shouldn’t think there are no predators in your current environment, just because it’s now quiet.

Mali Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones. – Great Thoughts Treasury – Mali Rising – Mali Rising

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1. A bee needs to travel and visit blooming flowers before coming back to the hive and converting the pollen into honey.
2. A canoe doesn’t know or care who the captain is, and when it rolls over, everyone must swim.
3. A deaf man on a trail at night may not hear the thunder or see the rain, but he will feel them.
4. A leader is like a donkey for others to follow or ride.
5. A log of wood can sit in water for years, but it will never become a crocodile and vice versa.
6. A man is what he thinks, and we may know some of what he believes by what he says.
7. A man with ambition has enemies and never sleeps comfortably anymore.
8. A man’s life offers many songs to sing, but he only gets to sing one.
9. A rooster proclaims his message of ownership to the whole world, but only chickens respond to his claim.
10. A single assault can destroy a village without a chief.
11. A so-called strong man’s body is full of scars, and his mind is full of enemies.
12. A turtle is not proud of his long neck.
13. A turtle’s long neck evolved to reach out of its protective shell, eat when safe, and pull back in when endangered.
14. Bad luck comes to those who cook a goat’s kid in its mother’s milk.
15. Decide in the evening where you are going so you can pack your traveling gear and be ready to go in the morning.
16. Every living being has evolved ways to avoid being eaten, and the swallow’s method is quick turning to evade capture.
17. Everyone in the village must help raise the children because they will soon be the adults taking care of our things.
18. Everyone will abuse a woman who is known to sell sex.
19. From a tiny unknown species of seed, many weird things might grow.
20. If you know you do not know, you can seek to know, but if you do not know you do not know, you will not seek to know.
21. If you know you know it all, you are a know-it-all and won’t learn anything new to know, which means you don’t know it all.
22. If you travel with donkeys for a year, you won’t speak like a donkey, but you will know their habits.
23. May Allah grant his resting place to be cool and comfortable.
24. May God reward you with long life for your kindness to others.
25. Misfortune offers the advantage of seeing which friends come to offer help.
26. One finger can do many things, but a hand can do all of those and many more.
27. Slowly but surely, the shit in foreign poets’ ideas will invade your village and stink up your life.
28. Some women try to enhance their attraction to men by displaying their expensive possessions.
29. The hyena chasing two antelopes will catch neither and go to bed hungry.
30. The older people can see the future responses to the same old problems the younger ones will encounter.
31. The poor people always pay the most for the bad behavior of their leaders.
32. When mosquitoes eat, they first suck blood and then spew disease.
33. When the slave-trader preaches the Koran, it is time to watch over your daughters wanting to hajj to Mecca.
34. When you receive a gift, probe the giver’s motive.
35. When your donkey dies, it will stop farting when you walk behind him.
36. You are the master of the words coming out of your mouth, but then you become their slave.
37. You won’t drown where you always bathe because you are familiar with the problems.

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The data look like the Covid is going away, but because there are still millions of cases still active it isn’t appropriate to stop wearing masks. Another month of doing the things we have habitually been doing would hasten the end of the epidemic and reduce it to a seasonal “flu” that only needs a booster shot.

Sri Lanka Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

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

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1. A fruiting tree attracts many species of eaters, like a man with money attracts many sycophants.
2. A good teacher opens the eyes of his students to see how things have a beginning, middle, and end.
3. A healthy man might have a sick wife, and a sick woman might have a healthy husband.
4. A quick mind with a pleasing manner has the best defense for not getting into combative troubles.
5. Adversity makes a rational man wiser and exposed to more opportunities.
6. Always running away from your problems exposes you to more suffering than facing them and coping.
7. An enemy will suffer from envy if he sees how productive and comfortable your life has become.
8. An extremely painful experience generates an extreme avoidance of similar incidents.
9. Don’t believe anything you hear, little of what you see, and abstain from saying anything about events whose facts you can’t easily verify.
10. Don’t count on a chicken egg producing a laying hen until you can count that next hen’s eggs.
11. Even what appears to be a dangerous jungle can be a paradise with appropriate adaptations to its environments.
12. Faith in a witch doctor’s weird antics and bizarre medicines makes them more effective.
13. Getting him to work is like trying to get a cat to pull a turnip out of a campfire.
14. Gravity rules and is always pulling everything down, and liquids squeeze the lighter things back up.
15. He appears to enjoy sitting on the bottom of his capsized boat and waving his arms.
16. He likes to traipse around pouring champagne at his friend’s weddings.
17. He looks as clean as a pansy growing beside a sewer.
18. He phoned me when he knew I was occupied, so he would have an excuse.
19. He who studies himself and reprograms his reactions to specific stimuli will become successful.
20. He’s a guy that hits the middle post between the two swinging doors.
21. He’s a nice guy and smiles at the Salvation Army guy as he walks past their collection pot.
22. His foot slipped, and then his hand.
23. I agree with the baby loris’s mother that her child is beautiful.
24. I’d be more able to give you my thigh bone than what you’re asking of me.
25. If Satan is your godfather and spiritual guide, you will be welcome when you get to Hell, which you will.
26. If you can drive to Kandy, you can go anywhere in Sri Lanka.
27. If you have a headache, laying your head on a down pillow won’t cure its cause.
28. It is rain that fills the rivers, not the humidity or the morning dew.
29. Like a half-filled crock, a half-witted man makes plenty of sloshing noises when jerked about.
30. No matter how small, a sin is a sin, so practice being sinless by routinely walking past a pile of goodies. Tip: Don’t look at them.
31. Of what use is pencil and pad to a blind man?
32. Owieee, your soup has red-hot Thai chilies instead of ginger.
33. That’s like letting go of a bird in your hand and trying to catch its twin flying past.
34. The beauty of a crane’s white wings and graceful flying isn’t appreciated until it’s flying away and gone.
35. The desire for more comes with every pleasure enjoyed and less with every misery endured.
36. The eel that slips away is always the biggest.
37. The man who fell into a pit one night learned how to go around it the next day.
38. Their friendship is as close as the bark on a tree’s trunk.
39. Use an injured little fish to lure a big one.
40. Water dumps on those on the bottom.
41. When a blacksmith gets the right malleability of his iron, he brings his hammer into action.
42. When in haste, you must do only one thing at a time, or you will fumble, and lose lots of time.
43. When the mother dies, the father begins acting like an uncle.
44. When you lose the game, you skip the party.
45. With emotional problems, the best cure is the one you believe works.
46. You are freer if you are an occasional victim rather than someone’s permanent servant.
47. You can buy everything, except your ancestry.
48. You can swallow ugly pills more easily if they are disguised in a butter wrapping.
49. You must get out of your house and your city to get a broader view of our world’s reality.
50. You waste your time making fence posts and then throwing them into the river.
51. You will get a hoarse voice yelling at clouds to obey your commands.
52. Your shadow waits for you outside of a dark movie theater.

Burkina Faso Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.
List of Proverbs – Proverbicals – Special Dictionary – Unquote

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1. A child who loves culture and breeding is a perfect child.
2. A close friend is helpful, and a distant brother is needy.
3. A hen will not say thank you to the mortar that’s grinding her grain into flour for human bread.
4. A hypocrite violates their claimed moral principles then hides behind windy words.
5. A mother stays close enough to her baby to hear its cries for help.
6. A single peanut is enough to share between two people.
7. A sunken log doesn’t become a crocodile, but a crocodile may lure you into thinking it is a sunken log.
8. An army of ants can carry a dead elephant to their colony and eat it.
9. An ax in your hands, with your cooperative effort, can chop down any tree.
10. An elephant is big and important, and a child is small but important too.
11. An old man is a library of information that burns into smoke when he dies.
12. Beating milk makes butter better.
13. Dead people are unable to speak of their ancestors, and you must learn their names and your heritage now and pass it on.
14. Don’t attempt to stare down a submerged crocodile because its teeth are much closer than its eyes.
15. Even if you don’t like hares, you can honor their speed and random darting abilities when chased.
16. Every child’s birth is a rebirth of its entire ancestry of successfully coping with the world.
17. Everything has a beginning and an end, just like a banana.
18. Friendship is like dragging a stick into a furrow of blowing sand, which disappears if you stop working with it.
19. If a river shifts its bed, the local creatures must shift their homes.
20. If dirty water is left standing, it will separate into layers.
21. If we lie, the honest person we believed ourselves to be withers away. So, never lie because if we lie, we die.
22. If you don’t have enough water to bathe, then wash your face.
23. If you haven’t checked the quality and price of a product in two stores, you don’t know what suits your needs best.
24. If you rub your back, then rub your face to restore your awareness of self and your view of physical reality.
25. If your father takes care of you until your teeth are in, take care of him when his teeth are out.
26. If your wife washes your back, you should cooperate and wash your front.
27. Knowledge, like horsepower, is only useful when its engine is being used.
28. Mild hunger is more tolerable than the shame of stealing food, but a starving person does have a good excuse.
29. One hand doesn’t scoop up spilled flour.
30. One hand drops food into another hand that begs for it.
31. One hobo can recognize another hobo’s code marks on rocks.
32. Patience often pays off, but sometimes it just wastes time.
33. People remember the happiness you leave behind.
34. Tears don’t save a man, but right actions do.
35. The glory of an old woman is her big ears.
36. We have land and seeds, and now all we need is rain.
37. When a beautiful woman does not steal your heart, she hides it from you.
38. When speaking, you must remember that your listener is trying to integrate what you are saying into their worldview of reality.
39. Where a man’s wife is sleeping tonight is his home.
40. Wisdom, tolerance, and forgiveness are the ideals of great leaders.
41. Your wife is for you alone, and you for her!

Taiwan Proverbs for playing the Aphor Game

These modified aphorisms will prompt new ideas or inspire you to discover even more obscure ones.
– Inspirational Stories – Proverbical – Taiwanese Secrets

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1. A bird sings because what it is saying is important.
2. A couple sometimes argues about trivial things for the fun of the vibrant exchange.
3. A man who lives in a glass house will have a great view if it’s on a mountaintop.
4. A man who wants a pretty nurse will soon prefer one who would change his bedpan.
5. A person needs a healthy face to live well, like a tree needs healthy bark on its trunk.
6. Beautiful people need some wisdom to have beautiful lives.
7. Birds sing for many reasons: danger, mating toward females, staying away from males, maintaining flock togetherness, asking “Where are you?”, maintaining enough nest territory, proclaiming unique social group identity, mimicking sounds in their environment to confuse others, including me, by making my telephone ringing sound when I approached my house.
8. Champions playing at their limit often fail, but it’s a random failure in a game and not a mistake.
9. Even snails get where they are going, except when they can’t go at all, like across dry streets on a hot day.
10. Everyone has too few pleasing events and too many annoying ones.
11. Greed generates pain in other people, but it doubles back on the greedy person as the envy of everything that others have.
12. He who asks an important question was ignorant in the past, but he’s intentionally stupid in the future without the information.
13. If a wind comes out of an empty cave, it must come in somewhere else.
14. If his ancestors survived and possessed the qualities that made him, there is a place for him in this world.
15. If someone transports manure for you without stealing any, that doesn’t mean he’s honest enough to haul your rice.
16. If their home tree falls, the monkeys find a new one.
17. If you have a forest, you will have access to firewood.
18. It takes work to make things, but spit will do to criticize something.
19. Let nature do the things it’s going to do because you can foresee them and their consequences and use them productively.
20. Many students have become royalty, but only a few teachers like Seneca or Lyndon Johnson became the most powerful people of their time.
21. One day below zero degrees Fahrenheit isn’t enough to make three feet of ice, but it is enough to burst your exposed water pipes.
22. One mouse dropping will ruin your dinner and thus your whole day.
23. Poor people can eat better if they become rich.
24. Ride a mule while you’re looking for a horse, and a donkey if you can’t get a mule, and good shoes if you must walk.
25. Selfish people judge you by what you give them.
26. Some people prefer Benedictine, others Miller’s High Life, but the rich and poor alike drink plain water.
27. Status is variable with the situation, and even a king can ask a three-year-old to show him where the potty is.
28. Things that look good might not taste good, and we must judge goodness with the proper criteria.
29. Trying to save a dead horse’s life isn’t the same as saving a dead horse for dog food.
30. Water pipes burst inside houses in freezing weather.
31. We live with nature, which can float a boat in water, or sink it, because it doesn’t have any choice in what it does, but we do.
32. We want a horse that does lots of work but doesn’t eat much hay and no oats.
33. When weeding, you must kill the roots and take away the visible plant.
34. Your luck will change from good to bad, or bad to good, with your way of looking at it.

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The Covid Omicron wave is dropping, and if nothing changes too much this pandemic seems to be winding down, except for the long haul liabilities created. But, I’m still doing all the precautions just to hang in with the easy-to-do habits. Why change a habit that’s easy to do for a while longer?