Proverbs and old sayings, page 789

43575 proverbs and old sayings

O, sheep if I do not eat you, you will eat me, said the hyena.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about contentment

When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about secret

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about advice, people

The nile has no resting place it wanderes around carrying a log.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

It is better to be the cub of a live jackal than of a dead lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Evil penetrates like a needle and then becomes like an oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about man

When one sets a portion for oneself, usually it is not too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Saying that it's for her child, she gets herself a loaf of bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about children

Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about trap, contentment

If they speak, they are wind; if they are silent, they are gourds.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A bird hanging between two branches will get bitten on both wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

When they fooled the chicken they threw her into a carrying basket.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

As the wound inflames the finger, so the thought inflames the mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about thinking, mind

Even over cold pudding, the coward says ~'It will burn my mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

If you are going to go where corn grows, take a cutting tool with you.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about tools, contentment

Try not to get hold of a leopard's tail, but if you do -- don't let go.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about contentment

If you see that a town worships a calf, then cut the grass and feed it.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about city, contentment

Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about contentment

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about art, magic, contentment