515 Proverbs about Heir / Page 8
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He who doesn't know a grave's coldness, doesn't give the dead their respect.142.
He who is first to receive something forgets when his friend will receive their share.143.
If two brothers fight over their father's land, it is a stranger who will enjoy there sweat and labour.144.
If you want people to understand you, you speak their language.145.
It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.146.
It is only the early risers who succeed in filling their baskets with white ants.147.
Let us be glad to those who make us happy for their gods who make our souls happy.148.
People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.149.
People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.150.
Quiet people are like still water their deep.151.
The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.152.
The sky is wide enough for two birds to fly without their wings touching.153.
Those who get their kola nut cracked by the spirit should not forget to be humble.154.
Those who give birth to nincompoop it's not their wish.155.
Those who master to climb trees with their teeth are in better position to tell which barks are bitter.156.
Those who never protect the values of their ancestors their soul will never rest peacefully.157.
What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won't see.158.
When problems come they carry along with them all their relatives.159.
When the drummers change their beats the dancers must also change their Steps.160.
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