2119 Proverbs about Thing / Page 62
1221. You never wait too long, when you wait for something good.
1222. The end is good, everything is good.
1223. Better to walk without knowing where than to sit doing nothing.
1224. Even if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows something.
1225. Explaining something to an ignorant person is harder than making a camel jump over a ditch.
1226. Every thing is best when new, a friend and wine are best when old.
1227. Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing.
1228. Everything that is yellow is not gold.
1229. A good friend you get for nothing, an enemy you have to buy.
1230. Life is the cheapest bargain - you get it for nothing.
1231. The heaviest thing in the world is an empty pocket.
1232. Understanding is something we're sure the other fellow hasn't got.
1233. When a woman is hungry, she says, "Roast something for the children that they might eat."
1234. No money is taken for just looking at somebody or something.
1235. The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.
1236. A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year.
1237. 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.
1238. When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind.
1239. The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold.
1240. A family name is not cooked and eaten, one's life is the thing.
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