Famous Proverbs
907 Proverbs about Water / Page 76
751.
Until a crab finds itself in a very hot pot of soup, it will never understand that water can be both cold and hot.752.
Water from another man's calabash tests differently.753.
Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.754.
When all the water has gone, only the largest stones will remain on the riverbed.755.
When the bells are in water they can't make any sound.756.
When water stays for long it stinks.757.
You can take a goat to the river, but you can't make it drink the water.758.
You don't punish a fish by throwing it in water.759.
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.760.
Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream.