337 Proverbs about About / Page 14
261. Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.
262. If you want to eat pickled herring, think about the thirst you will have.
263. Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them.
264. When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.
265. You learn a lot about a man by his behavior when hungry.
266. When an ant says 'ocean', he's talking about a puddle.
267. You stored your milk in a straining metal... and now you are complaining about bad luck?
268. The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well.
269. Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.
270. The wolf and the dog agree about the goat -- which together they eat.
271. A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night.
272. The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.
273. The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar.
274. You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke?
275. It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch.
276. When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.
277. Someone who speaks about "my inferiors" doesn't have them.
278. A person who talks about his inferiors hasn't any.
279. Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.
280. All you can tell about a big belly is that the owner has had a lot to eat, not what he had to eat.
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