73 Bantu Proverbs / Page 7
- 61. What makes the drum pleasing is the song.
 - 62. What nature gives us is not refused.
 - 63. What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
 - 64. When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped.
 - 65. Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.
 - 66. Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord.
 - 67. Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark.
 - 68. Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.
 - 69. Work is good provided you do not forget to live.
 - 70. You do not teach a giraffe to run.

|
|
Quotes by Power Quotations |