Famous Proverbs
336 Proverbs about Still / Page 20
191.
After the meal, one has to be still and shut the eyes for a while in the gloom.192.
Iron is worked when it's still hot.193.
Even if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows something.194.
They put the nightingale into a golden cage, yet it still craved for its home.195.
One may make up a soft bed for somebody, but still it will be hard to sleep in.196.
Beware of a quiet dog and still water.197.
A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.198.
When a woman cannot have good palm-nuts to give her rich oil, she still has to maintain decency in order to remain one of those that sell good quality oil.199.
Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings.200.
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.