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He that does not fear a bull must be a bull himself.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear

Where there are many fowls, millet is not scattered.

Proverbs and old sayings

Fire does not beget fire in the end it begets ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, end

He who ridicules the good will be overtaken by evil.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

A person scratches himself where his hand can reach.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Do not abuse midwives while child-bearing continues.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

One who always depends on his brother will die poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

One who rides two horses at once will split asunder.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you take of your clothes for water you must bathe.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, water, contentment

Put a riddle to a fool a clever person will solve it.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, people

Charity is the matter of the heart not of the pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings about charity, heart

He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.

Proverbs and old sayings

A person who is in too much of a hurry stubs his toe.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

He who fears the crying of a child, will cry himself.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A rotten coconut in a heap spoils the wholesome ones.

Proverbs and old sayings

Rice is all one but they are many ways of cooking it.

Proverbs and old sayings

A pit of the tongue cannot be covered up by the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings

Where there are plenty of trees there are no builders.

Proverbs and old sayings

A wife is like clothes and banana plant needs weeding.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, wife

He who earns his living in the sun, eats in the shade.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun