9 Mauritania Proverbs
1. 
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
2. 
Before eating, open thy mouth.
3. 
He who begins a conversation, does not foresee the end.
4. 
He who loves money must labor.
5. 
He who wears too fine clothes, shall go about in rags.
6. 
Not all the flowers of a tree produce fruit.
7. 
One must talk little, and listen much.
8. 
Too large a morsel chokes the child.
9. 
Two eyes see better than one.