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43574 proverbs and old sayings

He who selects coconut with great care ends up getting a bad coconut.

Proverbs and old sayings about end, bad luck, bad

He who drinks water with one hand finds out his thirst is still there.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

If you love other people's children, you will love your own even more.

Proverbs and old sayings about love, children, people, contentment

Have you changed into a cuttle-fish, you heap live embers on yourself?.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, contentment

Regrets are like a child, They come some considerable time after event.

Proverbs and old sayings about events, children, time

If the palmwine tapper is praised, he dilutes the palm-wine with water.

Proverbs and old sayings about wine, water

He who devours his neighbour's fowl, its foot prints will give him away.

Proverbs and old sayings

The one who has helped others climb the ladder gets kicked in the teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is hard to bring up a child.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

He who is after two things at the same time, one will surely escape him.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, time

One who has been bitten by a snake, when he sees grass he he gets afraid.

Proverbs and old sayings

I have anointed you with kohl, do you, in return, anoint me with pepper?.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you see something and say nothing, you will have nothing to suffer for.

Proverbs and old sayings about suffering, nothing, contentment

A thing that is firmly fixed cannot be dislodged except with much trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings about problems, things

The death of not a relative is a wedding. Compared to a death of a relative.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage, death

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.

Proverbs and old sayings about use, wealth, end, contentment

Treat your guest as a guest for two days; on the third day, give him a hoe.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

He who eats with you will not die with you except he who was born with you.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, contentment

You can not know the extent of water in a pond that you have never been to.

Proverbs and old sayings about water, contentment

She who is pregnant, is pregnant-even though she wrap herself in an 'mkaja'.

Proverbs and old sayings