176 Proverbs about Black / Page 7
121. Two blacks do not make a white.
122. After black clouds, clear weather.
123. The kettle calls the pot black-brows.
124. There are black sheep in every flock.
125. Pepper is black and hath a good smack.
126. Spice is black, but it has a sweet smack.
127. The devil is not so black as he is painted.
128. Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.
129. The frying-pan said to the kettle, "Avaunt, black brows!"
130. A red beard and a black head, catch him with a good trick and take him dead.
131. A black cow also gives white milk.
132. In the darkness all cows are black.
133. Black souls wear white shirts.
134. A white piastre for a black day.
135. If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.
136. He who goes to the blacksmith's shop comes home with scorched clothes.
137. All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.
138. If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
139. The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
140. A black plum is as sweet as a white.
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