555 Proverbs about Fire / Page 28
541. Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
542. Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand.
543. The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.
544. Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
545. The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.
546. It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.
547. Bad water also quenches the fire.
548. You are lighting a fire in the wind.
549. You are creeping on your knees to the fireplace.
550. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..
551. It is the one who lies by a fire who can feel how hot it is.
552. If you call a piece of wood 'child', you can never use it to light fire since it has become so precious.
553. One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.
554. The dog I bought, bit me; the fire I kindled, burned me.
555. A cow gave birth to a fire: she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.
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