Famous Proverbs
81 Proverbs about Pound / Page 5
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Penny wise, pound foolish.42.
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.43.
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.44.
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.45.
Those who are born to pennies never make it to pounds.46.
An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.47.
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.48.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.49.
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.50.
A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus.