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Unless God does it, what can a doctor do?
Meaning: If God doesn't cure a person, a
physician can't; or, man may plant and water, but God must bring the increase.
62
Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
Meaning: Two wrongs don't
make a right.
63
The sieve says to the strainer, "You have holes."
Meaning: Used of a
guilty person who finds fault with others.
64
You can't clap with one hand.
Meaning: (a) It takes two to make a fight.
(b) Many hands make light work;
or, in union there is strength.
65
Don't be a thief and won't fear the king.
Meaning: "The righteous are as bold as a
lion."
66
Look after your property, and you won't accuse your neighbour of
being a thief.
Meaning: If one takes proper care of his
possessions, he won't have to suspect his neighbour of stealing.
67
I have never seen anyone go astray who followed along the right
way.
Meaning: You will never go wrong by doing
right.
68
A liar is forgetful.
Meaning: A dishonest person can't remember to be
consistent.
69
Under his bowl there is a little bowl.
Meaning: A person smells a rat; or, there is a
trick to his trade, or, "there is something rotten in the state of Denmark".
70
He appreciates prosperity who is caught in calamity.
Meaning: Troubles make us appreciate our
blessings, or, we never know the worth of water until the well runs dry.
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If a forest catches fire, both the dry and wet will burn up.
Meaning: When trouble comes, it overtakes guilty
and innocent alike.
72
When water goes over your head, what difference if it's one
fathom or a hundred fathoms.
Meaning: As well be hung for a sheep as a
lamb.
73
Don't sprinkle salt on my wound.
Meaning: Don't aggravate a person's trouble; or,
don't attack a man while he is down.
74
Forget the past, but look out in the future.
Meaning: What has happened is water under the
bridge, but don't let it happen again.
75
In the ditch where water has flowed, it will flow again.
Meaning: Previous prosperity will follow
disaster.
76
One who runs will also fall.
Meaning: Calamity can come as well as
prosperity.
77
Hasty work doesn't succeed.
Meaning: Haste makes waste, or, a watch pot never
boils.
78
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Meaning: All things come to one who
waits.
79
A river is made drop by drop.
Meaning: Every little bit counts; or, progress
comes from accomplishing many small things.
80
He hasn't time even to scratch his head.
Meaning: He is as busy as a one-armed paper
hanger.
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