28 New Zealander Proverbs / Page 2
- 11. Even food can attack.
 - 12. Hold on tight to the words of your ancestors.
 - 13. In peace be faithful; in war be valiant.
 - 14. In this world I greet my oldest survivor -- the earth.
 - 15. Let someone else sing your praise.
 - 16. Let us hurry and finish up the food; when visitors arrive, the meal will be over.
 - 17. Never spend time with people who don't respect you.
 - 18. Old canoes can be restored, but youth and beauty cannot.
 - 19. Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals.
 - 20. Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.

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