157 Proverbs about Ground / Page 8
141. A continuous fever even grounds the lion.
142. God protect you from the man who looks down at the ground and the woman who looks up to heaven.
143. Dark ground gives good bread; white ground is quickly tired.
144. Seed ground that has been fallow, not ground that has just yielded fruitfully.
145. It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
146. The tallest tree is rooted in the ground.
147. A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.
148. Though near be the stone to the ground, closer is the help of Coivi.
149. The child looks everywhere and often sees nought, the old man, sitting on the ground, sees everything.
150. We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics.
151. The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.
152. The corpse of a bird does not decompose in flight, but on the ground.
153. If your part of the battlefield is covered with thorns, you do not leave your position and go to stand where the ground is good.
154. A bird flies high above and its funeral is performed on the ground.
155. The chakata fruit on the ground belongs to all, but the one on the tree is for she who can climb.
156. No partridge scratches the ground in search of food for another.
157. Don't build the bungalow on an inch of ground.
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