Famous Proverbs
153 Proverbs about Plant / Page 9
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Do not plant a tree with its root upward.82.
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.83.
It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing.84.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.85.
Trees often transplanted never prosper.86.
If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans.87.
If you plant grass, you won't get rice.88.
In the planting season visitors come singly, and in harvest time they come in crowds.89.
Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone's garden.90.
Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel passion.