Saturday 21 December 2013

PROVERBS



TRUE WORDS OF WISE MEN
1. When a snake attacks a child the father will go for a stick; the mother for the stick.
2. It is the caterpillar which becomes the butterfly.
3. There are people who, like sugarcane, are killed for being sweet.
4. A proverb is the horse of words: if a word is lost, a proverb is used to find it.
5. If you have pulled down your mother-in-law, press! God knows when you will get another chance( Maasai proverb)
6. Borrowing is a wedding, repaying is mourning.
7. It is the skin of the fierce buffalo that makes the shield.
8. The drum is heaviest on the return journey.
9. The mediator has two mouths.
10. The beast stays in the sugarcane plantation but does not know the sweetness of sugarcane.

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