672 Proverbs about Live / Page 8
141. Work is good, as long as you don't forget to live.
142. What is said over the dead lion's body could not be said to him alive.
143. If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.
144. A man who lives on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
145. A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
146. A cowardly hyena lives longer.
147. A fish will not live out of water but will prefer air to hot water.
148. A man should live to prove himself worth of his own flesh and blood.
149. A man who lives on the banks of the river should not wash his hands with spittle.
150. A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide.
151. Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.
152. 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.
153. Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.
154. If all snakes live together in one place who would approach them.
155. If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live in the mad.
156. If you live by the river you can hear the crab cough.
157. If you live in a glasshouse you should not throw stones.
158. If you debark a tree don't expect it to live again; you can only plant another of its kind.
159. If you wait for the roasted liver to cool it will get cold in someone else's mouth.
160. It's better to live with a dumb person than a liar.
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