938 Proverbs about King / Page 11
201. Everyone is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
202. Must is a king's word.
203. A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking.
204. For want of a nail a kingdom was lost.
205. Speaking of the devil.
206. 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.
207. An unjust king is like a river without water.
208. Conversation is like making love; the man is the question, the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit.
209. If the king says that it is night in the middle of the day, look up at the stars.
210. Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.
211. The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears.
212. The word of the king is the king of words.
213. You won't gain knowledge by drinking ink.
214. If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
215. The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength.
216. We are what our thinking makes us.
217. It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.
218. When one is taking a chicken from its roost, the hen is bound to attack with at least its claws.
219. It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative.
220. A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.
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