372 Proverbs about Ants / Page 16
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A clean hand wants no washing.302.
Elephants are killed for their ivory, birds for their feathers.303.
The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back.304.
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: That strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would gladly be exiled.305.
There is not enough room for two elephants to sit in the same shade.306.
There is no point in offering a helping hand to someone who wants to drown.307.
Waiting is futile for whomever wants to kiss someone's backside.308.
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.309.
Whoever wants to hurt never misses his target.310.
He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.311.
A good paymaster never wants workmen.312.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.313.
The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go.314.
If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.315.
Darkness shows no wrong path to she who gets what she wants before dark.316.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.317.
The rich man cannot be prevented from cyltivating the 'iganjo' he wants.318.
Nobody wants to meet an ill-omened bird.319.
People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.320.
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