No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.


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No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
PROVERB
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
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Never test the depth of a river with both feet...unless it's a river of love.
DONNA M THOMAS
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
~ANONYMOUS
The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
MARTIN FRIEDMAN
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
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AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
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One must talk little and listen much
AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
JULIE ANDREWS
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars
QUINTUS ENNIUS
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IFEOLUWA EGBETADE
Never test how deep the water is with both feet.
ANONYMOUS
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BRAD STONE
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EMILY GIFFIN
When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.
AMIT KALANTRI
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
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Do not worry about the fly that falls into your palm wine, worry about the frog that may be hopping ...
SEGUN OLOGE
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
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The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both fl...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
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JAMES SHAPIRO
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
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FREDRIK BACKMAN
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA
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CHRIS JOHNS
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MATTHEW FOX
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
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CRAIG MILBURN
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta...
AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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This is what we've been looking for. This is a retail destination for the one and a half million peo...
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RON KIND
No one can cure a girl bitten by a snake with venom of depression and it comes with one wish for her...
ELENA GABRIELLA MUNGUIA
The only one big one left we know of now is the Winooski River valley, and we're still working on th...
BEN ROSE
I don't have a depth finder. Don't need one.
TONY BROCK
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very ...
CARSTEN NICOLAI
I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on th...
HORACE SMITH AND JAMES SMITH
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
I am fascinated by African history, its leaders, humanity and camaraderie. I am optimistic that one ...
RANKOPA HERMAN MOLEFI
Both of us have perimeter players who are quick and athletic. We both like to attack the basket with...
MARCUS KAHN
The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain. Additionally, our tests showed both grou...
CHARLES EMERY
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
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PATTY STONESIFER
It wasn't really discussed, but it's the kind of game you'd think TV would jump on with both feet,
ARCHIE GRIFFIN
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CHRISTINA RICCI
The Republican River is low this year. There's only one way to pump that river, and that's with my s...
BOB WIETHARN
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If trials in the Canning River prove a success, the team plans further tests in other famous water b...
GRANT DOUGLAS
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
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...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
But since the last quarter of the year, we are witnessing a marked deterioration, with both parties,...
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The field conditions deteriorated steadily. It was just so messy out there that no one could keep th...
GREG SULLIVAN
There is a lot of anxiety with taking these state tests. By following some simple strategies, both s...
JUSTIN SERRANO
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN
Waves are the smiles of a river. The river will always smile when anything gets on it
SOTONYE ANGA
Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK
People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
MATTHEW PRIOR
Shot itself in both feet.
THABO MBEKI
Jon is a returning starter who provides experience. He has good size and is strong with both feet.
DICK NYMAN
They had no life paddles, no life vests, no personal protective equipment. They weren't familiar wit...
DAN GRIFFIN
School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to so...
AMIT KALANTRI
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet o...
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When an old man dies, a library burns down.
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Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his...
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There is no medicine to cure hatred
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A good thing sells itself, a bad one advertises itself
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It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man
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A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
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No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
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The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
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When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
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When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he i...
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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He who does not know one thing knows another
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and y...
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He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers
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It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
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Where water is boss, the land must obbey
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry...
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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Seeing is different than being told.
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If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
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When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears
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Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is...
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By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed
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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight
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Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.
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Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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However long the night, the dawn will break.
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He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
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God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
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Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
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Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
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A camel never sees its own hump.
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A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly
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When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong
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One cannot count on riches. Somalia
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Don't set sail on someone else's star
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Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda
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One must talk little and listen much
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No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
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When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful
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Wisdom does not come overnight
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It is better to be loved than feared
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He who wants to barter, usually knows what is best for him
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A crab does not give birth to a bird
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
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Singing "hallelujah" everywhere does not prove piety
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Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
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Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan
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A barber does not shave himself
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance
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He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense
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There is no phrase without a double meaning
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He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad
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If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips
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Before shooting, one must aim
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The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria
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A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
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When elephant steps on a trap, no more trap
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One cannot count on riches. Somalia
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Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth
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The world did not make any promises
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Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand
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He who boasts much can do little
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It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion
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By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti, Ghana
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The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana
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He who learns, teaches
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The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief
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The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia
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Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers
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Do me a favor during the rainy season, and I shall do the same for you during the dry season
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The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks
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You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla
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He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kikuyu, Kenya
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Being happy is better than being king
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A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
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Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off
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When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: "Come here
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A word uttered cannot be taken back
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We start as fools and become wise through experience
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A comb becomes bad when it hurts you
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them
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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled
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Poverty is slavery (Somalia)
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It takes a village to raise a child.
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The chicken is never declared in the court of hawks. - Cape Coast, Ghana
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The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way
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When making a fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone
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He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense
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Sitting is being crippled
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A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake
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Tears are best dried with your own hand
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When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
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When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
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The best sauce is cooked in an old pan
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Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant
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When the music changes, so does the dance
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The frog does not run in the daytime for nothing. - Igbo, Nigeria
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when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong
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Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends
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Hold a true friend with both hands
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens
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To try and to fail, is not laziness
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Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth
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By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree
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harry harry bird lays one egg
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle
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If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
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Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die
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One cannot both feast and become rich. (Ashanti tribe)
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One cannot both feast and become rich. Ashanti tribe
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The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia
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It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark
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Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are
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You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America.
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Family must look out for family.
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Black people must stop acting like crabs in a barrel and work together.
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God can do anything but fail.
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A liar will steal and a thief will kill
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Life is short and full of blisters
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Jealous? Hate the game and not the player.
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Love don't love nobody.
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Money talks - everything else walks
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Once you go Black, you never go back.
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A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
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If you'll lie you'll steal and if you'll steal you'll kill.
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One monkey don't stop no show!
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Mama's baby...Papa's maybe.
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It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia
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That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
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A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
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Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
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A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia
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People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje
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It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
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Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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