191 Ethiopian Proverbs / Page 6
- 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.
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