Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 38
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Money has the capability of making people laugh; but when they laugh, the foolish ones sometimes forget to close their mouths.372.
No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury.373.
The glow-works light the nights, but more so the night that their mother prepares porridge.374.
When it is the turn of a man to become the head of a village, he does not need to diviner to tell him that he is destined to rule.375.
It is for saying that he has no time that the monkey's body became over-grown with long hairs.376.
Our elders say that at sunset, it is one's cloth that one goes to remove from the village square.377.
The spirit that keeps one going when one has no choice of what else to do must not be mistaken for valor.378.
It is the fortunate person that the physician undertakes to help.379.
The gods may still send a gentle breeze when they want to bless us.380.
Any wealth that takes only a market week to acquire is sure to contain in it things for which the gods will surely come to make claims.