1- Better an egg this year than a chicken next year.
2- Don’t blame God for creating the tiger — instead, thank him for not giving it wings.
3- One who tries to hide with a dog, a child, a goat, or a person with a cold, will not remain hidden.
4- A Coffee and love taste best when hot.
5- Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying a grain in a bag with a hole in it.
6- The calves do not fear the horns of their mother.
7- If you gladly stoop to the ground don’t be surprised if they trample over you.
8- A good name is better than good perfume.
9- She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
10- Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
11- When the hyena is gone, that is when the dog barks.
12- When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
13- If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them?
14- A good conversation is better than a good bed.
15- The heart of a fool is in his mouth and the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
16- One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
17- When the webs of the spider join, they can trap a lion.
18- The arrogant blind man picks a fight with his guide.
19- A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
20- They snatched from me my own cry.
21- Cow dung can’t be gathered where no cow has been.
22- He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
23- The person who grew up without correction will find his mouth slipping instead of his foot.
24- The one who is mistaken is the one who does nothing.
25- If they speak, they are wind; if they are silent, they are gourds.
26- A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.
27- The fool is thirsty in the midst of a downpour.
28- The eye of the leopard is on the goat, and the eye of the goat is on the leaf.
29- When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.
30- The same water never runs into the same river.
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