Famous Proverbs
472 Proverbs about Rive / Page 37
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A river that forgets its source will soon dry out.362.
A second wife cannot celebrate the beating of the first wife because that same beating awaits her when the third wife arrives.363.
A stick at the neighbours cannot drive out a leopard at your home.364.
Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.365.
Despise not a snail for its slow and struggling movement; it has a destination and with time it shall arrive.366.
Do not speak badly of a crocodile when your leg is in the river.367.
He who doesn't know where he is going doesn't know whether or when he will arrive.368.
However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.369.
If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.370.
If the fish comes out of the river to tell you that the crocodile has one eye, you should believe it.