If the hen did not cackle, no one would know what she had been about, [357]
If the hen had not cackled we should not know she had laid an egg, [126]
If the landlady is fair, the wind is fair, [154]
If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain, [257]
If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher, [257]
If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree, [177]
If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still, [125], [258]
If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing, [177]
If the sky falls, hold up your hands, [256]
If the sky falls there will be pots broken, [256]