191 Ethiopian Proverbs / Page 3
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Clothes put on while running come off while running.42.
Coffee and love taste best when hot.43.
Coffee is our bread.44.
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying a grain in a bag with a hole in it.45.
Cow dung can't be gathered where no cow has been.46.
Dine with a stranger, but save youur love for your famiuly.47.
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not giving it wings.48.
Do not hesitate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing.49.
Don't blame God for creating the tiger -- instead, thank him for not giving it wings.50.
Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go.51.
Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.52.
Don't spend the evening in a house where you can't spend the night. A good name is better than good perfume. After the hyena has gone, the dog barks.53.
Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right.54.
Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe.55.
Even if Christ's death could have been prevented, Judas would still be a traitor.56.
Even over cold pudding, the coward says: "It will burn my mouth.".57.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.58.
Evil gotten, evil spent.59.
Evil penetrates like a needle and then becomes like an oak tree.60.
Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.