624 Proverbs about House / Page 8
141. A person who is stung by a bee fears a big housefly.
142. A ruined people are as miserable as a dog in the house of death.
143. As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.
144. Before buying a house, see who your neighbours will be.
145. He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not complain when lizards start visiting him.
146. He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune.
147. If you live in a glasshouse you should not throw stones.
148. It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.
149. Milk and honey have different colours, but they share the same house peacefully.
150. No matter how far you are from your house, you will keep going until you get home.
151. One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta in a pot.
152. Shame to the house where the hen crows and the cock is silent.
153. Tears never flow in the house of a coward.
154. The cock belongs to one household, but when it crows it is heard in the whole village.
155. The house rat who goes swimming with his friend the lizard will die from cold.
156. When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn't leak.
157. When your house is on fire you don't choose who to help you put out the fire.
158. You can't hide the smoke when the house is burning.
159. When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
160. You cannot build a house for last year's summer.
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