Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 21
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We live by hope, but a reed never becomes an Iroko tree by dreaming.202.
Sinews and big muscles do not make a farmer.203.
When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind.204.
One must row in whichever boat one finds one's self.205.
When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets.206.
It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at its destination.207.
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.208.
It is the same moon that wanes today that will be the full moon tomorrow.209.
It is only the toad that gets up from its knees and falls back again on its knees.210.
The spider that knows what it will gain sits waiting patiently in its web. The praying mantis is never tired waiting all day.