Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 25
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By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.242.
When the laborer is praised, his cutlass begins to cut more keenly.243.
If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.244.
If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.245.
Criticism is easy but it does not create.246.
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright; if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.247.
When a sickle is drawn, it in turn draws the tree to which it is hooked.248.
If a person who curses another is not better than the person he curses, a request is never made of him to rescind the curse.249.
Money does not announce how it is earned but whereas properly earned money appreciates, improperly earned money depreciates.250.
The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold.