51 Cameroonian Proverbs / Page 2
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If the fight is tomorrow, why then clench your fist today?22.
If the panther knew how much he is feared, he would do much more harm.23.
If you ask questions, you cannot avoid answers.24.
If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you.25.
It is better to be the victim of injustice than to be unjust yourself.26.
It is the pot that boils but the dish that gets the credit.27.
Knowledge is better than riches.28.
Lying can get you a wife, but it won't keep her.29.
Lying will get you a wife, but it won't keep her.30.
No matter how fast a man is, he cannot outrun his shadow.31.
One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father.32.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.33.
She is like a road -- pretty, but crooked.34.
Singing birds don't build nests.35.
The cricket cries, the year changes.36.
The darkness of night cannot stop the light of morning.37.
The day did not know that night had fallen.38.
The elephant will reach to the roof of the house.39.
The fire cannot be put out with your hands.40.
The flood takes him in, and the ebb takes him out.