692 Proverbs about Want / Page 28
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The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back.542.
A clean hand wants no washing.543.
If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.544.
My drum doesn't do what I want it to.545.
I'm talking to the door, but I want the walls to hear me.546.
What my heart desired didn't happen; what God wanted was really done.547.
A wanton eye is the messenger of a lusting heart.548.
If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.549.
We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.550.
There is no point in offering a helping hand to someone who wants to drown.551.
Waiting is futile for whomever wants to kiss someone's backside.552.
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.553.
Whoever wants to hurt never misses his target.554.
The skilfullest wanting money is scorned.555.
He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.556.
A good paymaster never wants workmen.557.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.558.
Ye're black aboot the mou' for want o' kissing.559.
The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go.560.
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