428 Proverbs about Back / Page 5
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If you don't know where you are going, look back to where you've come from.82.
"Give me a push from my back" does not mean give me a hunchback.83.
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.84.
It is only the toad that gets up from its knees and falls back again on its knees.85.
A child who has no mother will not have scars to show on his back.86.
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.87.
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.88.
A child who is carried on the back will not know how far the journey is.89.
A baby on its mother's back doesn't know the journey is long.90.
A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.91.
A good man never stays in the grave forever, he always has chance to come back.92.
A stealing dog strengthens its back.93.
Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.94.
Get what to lend out and at the same time how to demand it back, for payment might be a tussle.95.
He who defects on the way finds flies on his way back.96.
He who doesn't find is way back from the forest gets lost within it.97.
If a bachelor who uses firewood for cooking runs away in the morning to avoid removing the ash; he will have to deal with it when he comes back.98.
If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.99.
If a man rides on the back of a tiger, he should never be surprised if he ends up in its tummy.100.
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