907 Proverbs about Water / Page 37
721.
When you put your nose into the water your cheeks get wet as well.722.
You can better drink from a small well with soft water than from the salty sea.723.
The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.724.
It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.725.
If two selfish young men sit next to a pot of water, the water spills out on the ground.726.
It is not only one person who bathes in the witch's water.727.
The toad likes water, but not when it's boiling.728.
The rippling water where birds gather.729.
Unfolded by the water are faces of the flowers. Flowers thrive where there is water, as thriving people are found where living conditions are good.730.
One who knows everything at times draws water with a basket.731.
A slave boy is blamed no matter what he does: If he does not wash his hands, he is accused of being dirty. If he washes his hands, he is accused of wasting water.732.
Drawn wells have sweetest water.733.
If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.734.
Dem give yu basket fi carry water.735.
Frog never gargle him troat till him tas'e fresh water.736.
Hog say, di fus water 'im cetch 'im walla.737.
Hog say, di fus water im cetch, I'm walla.738.
When water trow weh i' cyaa pick up.739.
To pound water with a mortar is futile.740.
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