372 Persian Proverbs / Page 17
- 161. If it doesn't have water for me, instead it has bread for you.
 - 162. If my aunt had a beard, this man would be my uncle.
- 163. If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
- 164. If regret was a horn, one's horn would reach the sky.
- 165. If the Lor doesn't go to bazaar, everything will rot.
- 166. If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.
- 167. If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.
- 168. If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.
- 169. If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in?
- 170. If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.
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