Proverbs and Poetry

Proverbs

[With paraphrases/ explanatory comments in square brackets!]

Again, the genes are named in which the phrases occur

1:AGRN: A gift of fish presumes a bit much [some people don’t like fish!]
2:FAM110c: Standing corn makes a nation [the civic necessity of food]
1:AGRN: Alas! drought is an adversary
2:FAM110c: A shovel of unslaked lime, left alone, is cold [Add water and it gets quite hot]
1:AGRN: It's grossly unfair to abhor baldness
2:FAM110c: [Friendship is like heavenly food]
Y:SRY: Friends are a wonderful thing
1:AGRN: [Have a good defence or nothing]
12:IQSEC3: [An inhumane father-in-law is as insubstantial as a shadow.]
1:AGRN: Why is a father thin like a shadow? [He] has no son
7:FAM20C: [A demon appears innocent and harmless but causes long-term misery]
8:AC144568.2: [Temptation always lurks]
8:AC144568.2: A light heart is like a garden
21:LIPI: [Lies in the heart are the Enemy’s trap]
Y:SRY: Any profane place in the body causes distress [SRY is the testis-determining factor!]
X:GYG2: He establishes the outcasts [Exile in Babylon?]
1:AGRN: The heart rationalises its way into subjection [The Stockholm Syndrome]
1:AGRN: [Good attracts, bad repels]
1:AGRN: Nothing is an empty place
1:AGRN: [Prosperity impoverishes the soil]

Poetry

X:GYG2: She was drawn near a shadow from the rising sun
12:IQSEC3: [An empty father in law’s heart is like a shadow]
1:ISG15: A mountain was his voice...?
1:AGRN: To be golden is like tomorrow
1:AGRN: [Woe expands like a growing mist]
8:AC144568.2: [Yah is the dawning of the day by the wayside]