766 Proverbs about Ends / Page 9
161. The covetous spends more than the liberal.
162. God never sends mouths but he sends meat.
163. A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
164. A man's worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and his tongue.
165. He that has no money has no friends.
166. I came to the place of my birth and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"
167. In the small lanes there are no brothers or friends.
168. Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes.
169. Never tell your friends what your enemy may not hear.
170. So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm.
171. The corn will bend but it still ends up in the mill.
172. Wrath begins in madness and ends in repentance.
173. Rain does not make friends with anybody -- it falls on any person it meets outside.
174. The advice of a woman ends with "Oh, if I had only known!"
175. What a prostitute earns she calls presents from her husband's friends.
176. The heap of yams you will reap depends upon the number of mounds you have plowed.
177. If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.
178. To eat from the same pot with another man, is to take an oath of perpetual friendship with him.
179. A laughing jackal portends a witch in the rafters.
180. One foe is too many and a hundred friends are too few.
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