834 Proverbs about Hand / Page 10
181. Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.
182. If you are a friend of the captain, you can wipe your hands on the sail.
183. Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest.
184. Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eyes of man.
185. One hand cannot applaud.
186. One hand for oneself and one for the ship.
187. Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand.
188. The hand of God is with the group.
189. The hasty hand catches frogs for fish.
190. You cannot carry two watermelons in one hand.
191. When man pikin dey piss, him dey hold something for hand. Woman wey try-am, go piss for her hand.
192. You can't use your hand to force the sun to set.
193. No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth.
194. Hold a true friend with both your hands.
195. Hold on to a true friend with both hands.
196. A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands.
197. It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing.
198. When the right hand washes the left hand and the left hand washes the right hand, both hands become clean.
199. A speedy wrestling and a bad fall go hand in hand.
200. Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
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