Famous Proverbs
1046 Proverbs about Time / Page 61
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We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time.602.
The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.603.
An ant-hill that is destined to become a giant ant-hill will definitely become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants.604.
The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold.605.
It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.606.
One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.607.
Sometimes the rain might force a man more than once to seek shelter under the same tree.608.
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.609.
At a time a cockerel matures, it begins to crow to tell the world the time of day.610.
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.