Famous Proverbs
264 Proverbs about Lent / Page 25
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A slipshod man wastes away in the midst of plenty.242.
Do not look where the harvest is plentiful, but where the people are kind.243.
Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.244.
If they speak, they are wind; if they are silent, they are gourds.245.
Whether it rains or stops raining, the lentils have two eyes.246.
When women increase in wealth, they are silent. But when they fall into trouble, the whole world gets to know.247.
Speak what needs to be said, or stay silenth.248.
It is the still and silent sea that drowns a man.249.
I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.250.
Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing.