Eat fire and your mouth burn; live on credit and your pride will burn.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about proudness, fire, fire brigade
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To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about woman
Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
In my homeland I possess one hundred horses, yet if I go, I go on foot.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about homeland
It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fight
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about day
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about blind, things
A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
It's easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck
The crow was killed by the storm -- He died by my curse, says the owl.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
A spoiled son becomes a gambler, while a spoiled daughter becomes a harlot.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
When a woman laughs an experienced man will know how much it will cost him.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about woman, man
A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about rocks, perfection
Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about bankers, enemies
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about nature, change
When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about drinking, wine, people, contentment
A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about thinking, blind, man
The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian
