Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 19
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The fish that can see that its water is getting shallower, cannot be stranded.182.
Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night.183.
It is only the tortoise that moves and carries its shell about, which it calls its house.184.
It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived.185.
It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds".186.
A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands.187.
We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time.188.
The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.189.
When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard.190.
Every river knows where its water would not be soaked up into the earth, and that is where it flows past.