Famous Proverbs
340 Proverbs about Bout / Page 28
271.
Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring.272.
When you go to fetch water and do not return, they do not inquire about the pot.273.
If you are not told about it, you go among people soiled.274.
A hunter has no mysterious notions about the forest.275.
When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.276.
Like Mrs Bodo he talks about something else when asked to pay for the wine.277.
What we keep silence about, does not exist.278.
He knows as much about it as a hen does about the alphabet.279.
All you can tell about a big belly is that the owner has had a lot to eat, not what he had to eat.280.
Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.