316 LIEUT.-COLONEL D. C. PHILLOTT : 



129. " Pigeons that cost a penny a pair don't cry Yd Karim." Cf. ' You can get 

 nothing for nothing and devilish little for a penny.' 



130. (a) " The district has a Governor." 



(b) " There's a Police-Inspector in the bazar." 

 (You can't do wrong with impunity.) Cf. ' There is a God in the Heavens.' 



131. "You must not take exception to what a Governor or a Doctor does." 

 (Reference to a well-known anecdote.) 



132. " Cook only as much as you can eat." (Take that amount of work that you 

 can discharge.) Vide No. 28. 



133. " Don't speak words larger than your mouth." (Don't talk above your station, 

 or Don't make absurd claims.) Cf. ' Keep your tongue between your teeth.' 



134. " First get up and wash your own filthy trousers and then admonish me." 

 Cf. ' The kettle calls the pot black. ' 



135. " He's drunk without wine; encourage him and he'll get worse." (Don't 

 encourage him to show off; it only makes him worse.) 



136. "It was said to a sparrow, 'Stick a minaret up your fundament.' The 

 sparrow replied, ' Say something that's possible." (The second part of this — chlz-i bi-gil 

 ki bi-gunjad — has many obvious applications.) 



137. " Smoke arises from large logs " (but small chips flare up at once without 

 effect). (Important things that last are done by important people). Cf. ' Great deeds 

 and great men.' 



138. " The bowl is hotter than the broth." (Generally used by a relation in the 

 sense of ' blood is thicker than water ; I must like you more than an outsider does.' 

 Also applied to one more zealous than his superior, as ' The witness is more zealous 

 than the principal'). 



139. " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." 



140. " Health is wealth." 



141. " Every sore has its salve." 



142. " Silence gives consent." 



143. " He who seeks will find." (By trying comes success). 



144. " To kill two birds with one stone." 



145. "A hungry cat dreams of fat" (i.e., the most delicate part of the flesh). 

 Cf. ' A cat dreams of mice.' 



146. " Outwardly a sheep ; inwardly a wolf." Cf. * A wolf in sheep's clothing.' 



147. " Thorns and weeds l succeed the rose." (Said when a good thing has gone 

 and a bad succeeded it ; as when a man loses a pretty wife and marries an ugly 

 one). 



148. " In the place of the Moon sits the blind 2 Scorpio." (As above). 



149. " No rose without a thorn.' 



if 



1 Khar " brambles " ; khashak is the grass and thistly weeds after they are burnt up by the sun. 



2 Anything blind is mischievous as well as ugly. The sign Scorpio is unlucky. No Persian will commence a work when 

 Qamar dar 'aqrab ast. 



