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You will not necessarily get what you desire, you will get what is appointed you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Don't quarrel with the coconut-palm climber: the coconut has been eaten by the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon

He who spekes ill of someone close to you in your presence sends you to tell him so.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

Do me a favour during a rainy season and I shall do the same to you during the dry season.

Proverbs and old sayings about season, contentment

You dont throw stones at an approching craclin noise in the bush wait and see what is it first.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

He who desires to make something does not announce his intentions, just turns them into actions.

Proverbs and old sayings

The gratitude that bees receive is the smoke that people use to expel them and get at their honey.

Proverbs and old sayings about gratitude, smoke, use, people

A good place you don't go to is a good place: if you go too often, it isn't a good place any longer.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, contentment

If a native of pemba can get a log he does not relive himself on the ground. ie nothing but the best.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop.

Proverbs and old sayings

One who walks with no reason is not like one who sits without reason, the one who walks might pick up something.

Proverbs and old sayings about reason

If you find your own house is on fire, you may be sure that your neighbour's house is burning much more fiercely.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, fire, fire brigade, contentment

If you are astonished at Moses' deeds, you will be more astonished at Pharaoh's. Not-Moses declared himself to he a prophet, but Pharaoh declared himself to be God.

Proverbs and old sayings about deeds, god, contentment

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, world, things

Hurry slowly.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Pray and work.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about pray, work

Hit like a bomb.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

All are children.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about children

All is not for all.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish