85 Proverbs about Village / Page 4
61. The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.
62. If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
63. Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village.
64. The village gate can be closed, the mouth of the fool, never.
65. Better the head of a village than the tail of a town.
66. In the village that you don't know, the chickens have teeth.
67. In the villages where there are no oxen, the sheep's feet seem strong.
68. For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.
69. In every village, there is a path that leads to the mill.
70. Every village has certain drawbacks to it.
71. The blacksmith in one village becomes a blacksmith's apprentice in another.
72. It is easier to transport an ant hill than exercise authority in a village.
73. It is easier to transport a termite hill than have authority in a village.
74. An undecided man is the worst disaster of the village.
75. The wisdom of the elderly is like the sun, it illuminates the village and the great river.
76. Who mistrusts everybody is the real enemy of the village.
77. A village without elderly is like a tree without roots.
78. The villager who always complains and is never satisfied with anything is like an annoying flea on the foot.
79. Where the rooster crows there is a village.
80. A village without elderly is unhappy.
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