259 Proverbs about Lack / Page 13
241. He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
242. Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
243. The devil is not so black as he is painted.
244. There's a black sheep in every flock.
245. Even though it is black, the raven loves its young.
246. Gratitude ranks as the least of virtues, and the lack of gratitude is the worst of vices.
247. However black a cow is, the milk is always white.
248. The blacksmith in one village becomes a blacksmith's apprentice in another.
249. If the metal is not good, you cannot take it out on the blacksmith.
250. Also the black cow produces white milk.
251. Blacksmiths and woodworkers will never suffer from poverty.
252. The pot telling the kettle it black.
253. News don't lack a carrier.
254. Kamau who is white becomes black.
255. The mouth that has saliva does not lack words.
256. The devil always paints himself black, but we always see him rose-colored.
257. No matter how thoroughly a crow may wash, it remains ever black.
258. Black as is the raven, he'll get a partner.
259. The black ox never stamps on his own foot.
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