320 Proverbs about Break / Page 14
261. The responsibility of power is like holding an egg. Grasp it too tightly and it will drip through your fingers; hold it too loosely and it will drop and break.
262. If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp.
263. It is the fool's sheep that break loose twice.
264. It's the fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.
265. A bad one breaks his board.
266. The awkward person always breaks the board in riding on the surf.
267. When a very short man causes the market to break up in a big fight, bystanders ask him to stand up so that they can see how short he really is.
268. Let the kite hawk have a perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing.
269. A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.
270. When the mother goat breaks into the yam store her kid watches her.
271. The breaking of a betrothal is no small matter.
272. The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.
273. Great haste breaks the yam tuber.
274. A joke can break the earring.
275. Two smells of cooking meat break the hyena's legs.
276. No Klingon ever breaks his word.
277. If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to break a few pipiuses.
278. May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.
279. Better bow nor break.
280. Condition makes, and condition breakes.
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