Famous Proverbs
351 Proverbs about Stil / Page 22
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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.212.
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.213.
Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it.214.
The gods may still send a gentle breeze when they want to bless us.215.
A golden cage is still a cage.216.
A light is still a light, even though the blind man cannot see it.217.
A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.218.
Do not be tricked into thinking that there are no crocodiles just because the water is still.219.
Even if fed milk, a snake will still emit poison.220.
Even if the nightingale is in a gold cage, she still dreams of returning to the forest.