44 Sudanese Proverbs / Page 2
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If you can walk, you can dance; If you can talk, you can sing.22.
If you do something wrong to me, I forgive you. But I know that someday God will make you hit the son of a chief on the head. Then the chief will punish you.23.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.24.
It is sad when the elephant dies, but the whole tribe can feed on it.25.
Let rats fight with each other.26.
Let rats shoot arrows at each other.27.
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.28.
No one likes to eat crumbs from a feast; everyone likes to sit at the table.29.
Not all the trees in the forest make good firewood.30.
Our wasted days are the days we never laugh.31.
Salt comes from north, gold from south and silver from the land of Whites, but the Word of God, the famous things, histories and fairy tales, we only find them in Timbuktu.32.
Someone who is pointing his finger to another person is not always aware that the four remaining fingers are pointing in his direction.33.
That which does the cultivating is in the stomach.34.
The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.35.
The hand suffers at work, but the mouth still must eat.36.
The poor are excused from washing with soap.37.
The soup would be none the worse for more meat.38.
They have taken the cow by the horns in order to milk it better.39.
Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.40.
We desire to bequest two things to our children--the first one is roots; the other one is wings.