Famous Proverbs
381 Proverbs about Able / Page 20
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At table keep short hand; in company keep a short tongue.192.
It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to one's valuable possessions.193.
A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone.194.
It is by the strength of their number that the ants in the field are able to carry their prey to the nest.195.
If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.196.
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.197.
When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.198.
Behind every able man, there are always other able men.199.
Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren't.200.
Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other.