2062 Proverbs about Other / Page 62
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If God closes one door, He opens a thousand others.1222.
One can never repay one's debt to one's mother.1223.
Whoever speaks evil to you of others will speak evil of you to others.1224.
It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing.1225.
He who digs a pit for others must invariably fall into it.1226.
By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.1227.
If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.1228.
If a person who curses another is not better than the person he curses, a request is never made of him to rescind the curse.1229.
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts.1230.
The man who remembers others, remembers also his creator.1231.
A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself.1232.
A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.1233.
We can not choose who our relatives should be, even though we may come to like some better than others.1234.
A child who has no mother will not have scars to show on his back.1235.
To eat from the same pot with another man, is to take an oath of perpetual friendship with him.1236.
It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree, to eat his fill before others arrive.1237.
A child does not die because the mother's breasts are dry.1238.
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.1239.
When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.1240.
The glow-works light the nights, but more so the night that their mother prepares porridge.Quotes related to Other by Power Quotations