| No. 1 |
If the tiger is in the garden
Need the cobra fear the mongoose? |
| No. 2 |
Hearing is not knowing;
Knowing is not understanding; Understanding is not believing; Believing is not doing. |
| No. 3 |
Beware, for the most sacred cow
may become the tiger's breakfast. |
| No. 4 |
When all else fails,
the wise turn to strong waters. |
| No. 5 |
Neither contemplation of the navel,
nor the writing of pamphlets can be shown to be cost-effective. |
| No. 6 |
Beware, lest the fragile lotus
of health education be trampled by the elephants of reality. |
| No. 7 |
Of all the beasts in the jungle,
we most often resemble the crashing boar. |
| No. 8 |
Lo, the mynah bird repeateth
all that he hears; therefore, it is a wise law that strong drink should never be served to mynahs. |
| No. 9 |
Behold the elephant in the
garden turns pink at nightfall. |
| No. 10 |
When the jasmine blooms,
does the hyena laugh? |
| No. 11 |
Better to walk in the flames with God
than in the flower garden of the lady in the next compound. |
| No. 12 |
He who lives by bread alone
needs sex education. |
| No. 13 |
The greatest medications are those
that are swallowed by the mind. |
| No. 14 |
Let the health educator be as a coconut,
floating upon tropic seas and letting down roots on a foreign strand, that others may harvest their own crop of nuts. |
| No. 15 |
The lotus, like health education,
floats upon still waters; alas, while many admire their perfection, neither hath visible means of support. |
| No. 16 |
The wolf and the lamb
are beating their pruning shears into plowshares. |
| No. 17 |
The joy of wild rice is in the reaping;
of wild oats, in the sowing. |
| No. 18 |
When the lion selects his lunch
is the zebra not chosen the loser? |
| No. 19 |
If you would change a man's habits,
convince him that his vice is a virtue, for a man sheds virtues as the python sheds his skin, it is easy to make virtue a vice, but not vice virtue. |
| No. 20 |
When the hungry lion gets his fill,
he always leaves enough to feed his pride. |
| No. 21 |
When the python gorges
on the bullock of wisdom, the baboon sleeps peacefully in the jungle. |
| No. 22 |
Consider the wombat
and be grateful. |
| No. 23 |
The bee evaluates the flower;
The bear evaluates the honeybee; Who evaluates the bear? |
| No. 24 |
Who shall teach the cobra
to floss between his fangs? |
| No. 25 |
Even the rivers of ignorance may
contain clever crocodiles. |
| No. 26 |
The tiger has cavities
better left unfilled. |
| No. 27 |
Let the health educator
be to his thirsting public as the billabong to the jumbuck. |
| No. 28 |
The lotus blooms in ignorance;
but the lotus has sufficient beauty to get away with it. |
| No. 29 |
Let the health educator emulate the
sacred bull of Rama, who sheddeth his blessings that the earth may be enriched. |
| No. 30 |
Lo, the health educator partakes of the
virtues of the beast of prey and the serpent - half tiger, and half asp. |
| No. 31 |
Measles come and measles go,
but the leopard never changes his spots. |
| No. 32 |
The effective dental health program
has teeth in it. |
| No. 33 | Is mental health in the mind of the beholder? |
| No. 34 |
No problem arises when the log in the
river is perceived to be a crocodile; Trouble follows when the crocodile is perceived to be a log. |
| No. 35 |
The voice of wisdom
speaks to the inner ear. |
| No. 36 |
Remember always to be grateful
for the millions of people everywhere whose despicable habits make health education necessary. |
| No. 37 |
Beware the health educator
who when treed by the lion admires the scenery. |
| No. 38 |
Beware of the health educator
who ignores the political reality; for he is the fool's twin. |
| No. 39 |
The health educator who plays roulette
must first invent the wheel. |
| No. 40 |
If the heart is full
the mouth should remain closed. |
| No. 41 |
When the unknowing choose
the righteous path the wise rejoice. |
| No. 42 |
Praise the health educator
who like a moth attracted by the light jumps courageously into the fire. |
| No. 43 |
Stripped of its tender petals
by the hippos of the pond the gentle lotus becomes a nuptial bed with no trace of blood stains. |
| No. 44 |
The water hyacynth is strong,
wise and beautiful but like health education its source of strength is disclosed to the beholder. |
| No. 45 |
Take not council with the promotor
lest, like him, you confuse uniformity with consistency, motion with movement, and survival with performance. |
| No. 46 |
Even professional health educators
have difficulty discovering techniques used by their adversaries. |
| No. 47 |
The Health Educator is an unfelt need
waiting to happen. |
| No. 48 |
Be careful how you pronounce health promotion,
lest the listener believe self-promotion to be your objective. |
| No. 49 |
The credentials valued by the zebra are not necessarily
those sought by the lion. |
| No. 50 |
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was an Acronym. |
| No. 51 |
Wildbeest herds, like health educators, trek across the veldt
in search of watering holes. |
| No. 52 | Lo, when you itcheth, verily must thou scratch. |
| No. 53 |
The health educator who has a message is better off
to climb a tree and shout, rather than whisper in the wishing well. |
| No. 54 | Lemmings may know something. |
| No. 55 | The evaluator counts the ants at the picnic of progress. |
| No. 56 |
Great wisdom is attributed to the Owl, a fly-by-night
who asks not WHY? but merely WHO? |
| No. 57 |
Which is worse - to be a prophet without honour,
or to receive an honour without profit? |
| No. 58 | Many milestones are also millstones. |
| No. 59 |
Lo, it is written that health educators in family planning
hit below the belt. |
| No. 60 |
When the cobra waveth his head, or the educator
waveth his arms, beware! for both bear poison. |
| No. 61 |
Beware lest the health educator becomes a footnote
in the dissertation of destiny. |
| No. 62 |
When the vultures are circling
it is too late for the teachable moment. |
| No. 63 | The amorous rhinoceros has his own criteria. |
| No. 64 | True tigers don't eat tofu. |
| No. 65 | Bread cast upon the waters comes back soggy. |
| No. 66 |
It is noble to assist a stricken elephant in rising,
but it is foolhardy to catch one that is falling down. |
| No. 67 |
He who deplores without indulging
beats the brass gong with a wet wand. |
| No. 68 |
Beware, lest the fragile lotus of pleasure be trampled
by the elephants of virtue. |
| No. 69 |
When the hippopotamus diets,
the jungle trembles. |
| No. 70 | Is there education in the second kick of a mule? |
| No. 71 |
The Faithfull Jogger will arrive in Hell before us;
the Marathon Runner is already there. |
| No. 72 |
He who leads strong oxen
must himself be strong. |
| No. 73 |
Doth not the whisper of the lotus blossom in the gentle breeze
speak with greater authority than the scream of the hyena? |
| No. 74 | A healthy person is one who has not been adequately researched. |
| No. 75 |
He who sacrifices his good health to dig for diamonds
knows not his assets from a hole in the ground. |
| No. 76 |
Behold, the panther silvered by moonlight in the garden
issues no press releases, and the stag flamed by sunrise distributes no questionnaires. |
| No. 77 | Will the insects prove to be our Control Group? |
| No. 78 | Every sheep possesses a sheepskin. |
| No. 79 | A zizi bird in the cage is better than a pigeon on the statue. |
| No. 80 |
Ancient legends teach us that the earth is supported by four
elephants, standing upon the back of a giant turtle. They do not explain that the turtle stands upon a health educator. |
| No. 81 | Beware Irish health educators, for they will harp on your faults. |
| No. 82 |
It is written that the lion shall lie down with the lamb;
the lamb's opinion of this arrangement is not recorded. |
| No. 83 | Unlike fat, exercise can not be stored. |
| No. 84 |
If the health educator is a nut,
is the physician the squirrel? |