81 Proverbs about Pound / Page 2
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The nail that sticks out gets pounded.22.
A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft.23.
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.24.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.25.
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.26.
A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus.27.
The one who hasn't strength to pound yams pretends to drive away flies from the yams.28.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not one ounce of love.29.
An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge.30.
From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.31.
Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.32.
He that does not save pennies, will never have pounds.33.
That which is stamped a penny will never be a pound.34.
An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.35.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.36.
Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.37.
Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.38.
A pound of care will not pay a pound of debt.39.
In for a penny, in for a pound.40.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.Quotes related to Pound by Power Quotations