99 Filipino Proverbs / Page 4
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Not all that is black is charcoal.62.
One who spends too much time choosing ends up with cracked wares.63.
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.64.
Postpone today's anger until tomorrow.65.
Stones hurled to the sky. Don't get angry if you get hit.66.
Tell a lie and the truth will come to light.67.
Tell me who your father is, and I'll tell you who you are.68.
The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance.69.
The earth has ears, news has wings.70.
The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it's taller than the buffalo.71.
The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake.72.
The higher the bamboo, the more it can be bent.73.
The noisiest drum has nothing but air inside.74.
The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.75.
The person who is always criticizing others is usually the one who deserves criticism the most.76.
The prepared beats the hardworking person.77.
The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf basket, still both are full of holes.78.
The real hero doesn't say that he is one.79.
There is no bad food in a famine.80.
There is no bitter crust to a hungry person.