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quote[0]="Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat."
quote[1]="Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots."
quote[2]="Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight."
quote[3]="It is the wife who knows the husband."
quote[4]="Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout."
quote[5]="If you are in hiding don't light a fire."
quote[6]="One falsehood spoils a thousand truths."
quote[7]="When a man is wealthy, he may wear an old cloth."
quote[8]="Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle."
quote[9]="Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king."
quote[10]="The moon moves slowly, but it crosses the town."
quote[11]="The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people."
quote[12]="When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk."
quote[13]="There is no medicine to cure hatred."
quote[14]="It's a bad child who does not take advice."
quote[15]="When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: 'Come here.'"
quote[16]="Even though the old man is strong and hearty, he will not live forever."
quote[17]="When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful."
quote[18]="By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed."
quote[19]="The poor man and the rich man do not play together."
quote[20]="It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man."
quote[21]="When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him."
quote[22]="When a woman is hungry, she says, 'Roast something for the children that they may eat.'"
quote[23]="What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another."
quote[24]="When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him."
quote[25]="He who cannot dance will say: 'The drum is bad.'"
quote[26]="One cannot both feast and become rich."
quote[27]="It is no shame at all to work for money."
quote[28]="Money is sharper than a sword."
quote[29]="It is the fool's sheep that break loose twice."
quote[30]="When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised."
quote[31]="It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Man-Monkey."
quote[32]="Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together."
quote[33]="No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."
quote[34]="Two small antelopes can beat a big one."
quote[35]="Do not try to cook the goat's young in the goat's milk."
quote[36]="The humble pay for the mistakes of their betters."
quote[37]="You are beautiful because of your possessions."
quote[38]="A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace."
quote[39]="When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly."
quote[40]="He who hunts two rats, catches none."
quote[41]="If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?"
quote[42]="A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread."
quote[43]="When the master is absent, the frogs hop into the house."
quote[44]="He who is bitten by a snake fears a lizard."
quote[45]="If you do step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you."
quote[46]="When the vines entwines your roof, it is time to cut it down."
quote[47]="He who asks the questions,cannot avoid the answers."
quote[48]="The flood takes him in, and the ebb take him out."
quote[49]="She is like a road--pretty, but crooked."
quote[50]="By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree."
quote[51]="The heart of the wise man lies quiet limpid water."
quote[52]="The cricket cries, the year changes."
quote[53]="Thought breaks the heart."
quote[54]="Knowledge is better than riches."
quote[55]="Rain does not fall on one roof alone."
quote[56]="An elephant will reach to the roof of the house."
quote[57]="A man's wealth may be superior to him."
quote[58]="Lower your head modestly while passing and you will harvest bananas."
quote[59]="What is said over the dead lion's body, could not be said to him alive."
quote[60]="Children are the reward of life."
quote[61]="Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor."
quote[62]="Little by little grows the bananas."
quote[63]="A pretty basket does not prevent worries."
quote[64]="No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow."
quote[65]="Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead."
quote[66]="Love is like a baby, it needs to be treated tenderly."
quote[67]="The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?"
quote[68]="Great events may stem from words of no importance."
quote[69]="You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla."
quote[70]="A little subtleness is better than a lot of force."
quote[71]="Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off."
quote[72]="The son shoots a leopard; the father is proud."
quote[73]="Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh."
quote[74]="Mothers-in-law are hard of hearing."
quote[75]="If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel."
quote[76]="The friends of our friends are our friends."
quote[77]="Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile."
quote[78]="Death does not sound a trumpet."
quote[79]="Let him speak who has seen with his eyes."
quote[80]="When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day."
quote[81]="No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come."
quote[82]="He who is free of faults, will never die."
quote[83]="A single bracelet does not jingle."
quote[84]="To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall."
quote[85]="Sleep is the cousin of death."
quote[86]="The flesh of a young animal tastes flat."
quote[87]="Those who are absent are always wrong."
quote[88]="To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest."
quote[89]="When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow."
quote[90]="A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed."
quote[91]="The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes."
quote[92]="Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."
quote[93]="A close friend can become a close enemy."
quote[94]="What is inflated too much, will burst into fragments."
quote[95]="Restless feet may walk into a snake pit."
quote[96]="A coward sweats in water."
quote[97]="Snake at your feet --a stick at your hand."
quote[98]="The witness of a rat is another rat."
quote[99]="He who learns, teaches."
quote[100]="A fool will pair an ox with an elephant!"
quote[101]="One who runs alone cannot be outrun by another."
quote[102]="Cactus is bitter only to him who tastes of it."
quote[103]="The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst."
quote[104]="One who recovers from sickness, forgets about God."
quote[105]="Termites live underground."
quote[106]="Woman without man is like a field without seed."
quote[107]="If a friend hurts you, run to your wife."
quote[108]="If the heart is sad, tears will follow."
quote[109]="Unless you call out, who will open the door?"
quote[110]="Her horns are not too heavy for the cow."
quote[111]="There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, and no one who became fat because he broke a fast."
quote[112]="When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth."
quote[113]="You cannot build a house for last year's summer."
quote[114]="A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it."
quote[115]="When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
quote[116]="He who digs to deep for a fish, may come out with a snake."
quote[117]="Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole."
quote[118]="A loose tooth will not rest until it's pulled out."
quote[119]="The dog I bought, bit me; the fire I kindled, burned me."
quote[120]="A blade won't cut another blade; a cheat won't cheat another cheat."
quote[121]="If one is not in a hurry, even an egg will start walking."
quote[122]="If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them."
quote[123]="A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle."
quote[124]="Sitting is being crippled."
quote[125]="The fool speaks, the wise man listens."
quote[126]="A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat!"
quote[127]="I have a cow in the sky, but cannot drink her milk."
quote[128]="Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family."
quote[129]="A too modest man goes hungry."
quote[130]="If you offend, ask for pardon, if offended, forgive."
quote[131]="He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured."
quote[132]="A fool and water will go the way they are diverted."
quote[133]="Where there is no shame, there is no honor."
quote[134]="A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children."
quote[135]="Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him."
quote[136]="Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it."
quote[137]="Clothes put on while running come off while running."
quote[138]="A cow gives birth to a fire; she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child."
quote[139]="One scoops with a scoop."
quote[140]="Living is worthless for one without a home."
quote[141]="When one sets a portion for oneself, usually it is not too small."
quote[142]="He who wants to barter, usually knows what it best for him."
quote[143]="She who does not yet know how to walk, cannot climb a ladder."
quote[144]="When a fool is cursed, he thinks he is being praised."
quote[145]="It is easy to become a monk in one's old age."
quote[146]="Singing 'Halleluia' everywhere does not prove piety."
quote[147]="Saying that it's for her child, she gets herself a loaf of bread."
quote[148]="What has been blown away, cannot be found again."
quote[149]="The fool is thirsty in the midst of water."
quote[150]="Even over cold pudding, the coward says: 'It will burn my mouth'."
quote[151]="What one hopes for is always better than what one has."
quote[152]="A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn."
quote[153]="As the wound inflames the finger, so thought inflames the mind."
quote[154]="He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass."
quote[155]="If a man comes, a quarrel comes."
quote[156]="Move your neck according to the music."
quote[157]="One is born, one dies; the land increases."
quote[158]="If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal."
quote[159]="A crab does not beget a bird."
quote[160]="If you find no fish, you have to eat bread."
quote[161]="One camel does not make fun of the other camel's hump."
quote[162]="The man on his feet carries off the share of the man sitting down."
quote[163]="Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects."
quote[164]="To make preparations does not spoil the trip."
quote[165]="He who has done evil, expects evil."
quote[166]="A good deed is something one returns."
quote[167]="He who does not not cultivate his field, will die of hunger."
quote[168]="A cow that has no tail should not try to chase away flies."
quote[169]="The toad likes water, but not when it's boiling."
quote[170]="Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested."
quote[171]="No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
quote[172]="When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it."
quote[173]="To have two eyes is cause for pride, but to have one eye is better than to have one."
quote[174]="Save your fowl before it stops flapping."
quote[175]="Too much discussion means a quarrel."
quote[176]="Mutual affection gives each his share."
quote[177]="Mutual gifts cement friendship."
quote[178]="It takes two to make a quarrel."
quote[179]="Two flavors confuse the palate."
quote[180]="He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense."
quote[181]="A little leaven smoothes away the whole lump."
quote[182]="Their mosquito won't bite me."
quote[183]="The bad son gives a bad name to his mother."
quote[184]="After a foolish deed comes remorse."
quote[185]="A man who has one been tossed by a buffalo, when he sees a black ox, thinks it's another buffalo."
quote[186]="He who receives a gift does not measure."
quote[187]="He who does not know one thing knows another."
quote[188]="Do not say the first thing that comes to your mind."
quote[189]="A white dog does not bite another white dog."
quote[190]="Try this bracelet: if it fits you wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away no matter how shiny."
quote[191]="When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead."
quote[192]="He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony."
quote[193]="One finger alone cannot kill even a louse."
quote[194]="Because a man has injured your goat, do not go out and kill his bull."
quote[195]="A man who continually laments is not heeded."
quote[196]="Talking with one another is loving one another."
quote[197]="Absence makes the heart forget."
quote[198]="If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one."
quote[199]="Virtue is better than wealth."
quote[200]="There is no phrase without a double meaning."
quote[201]="Hearts do no meet one another like roads."
quote[202]="One does not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes."
quote[203]="There is no cure that does not cost."
quote[204]="Seeing is different from being told."
quote[205]="It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children."
quote[206]="Thunder is not yet rain."
quote[207]="Soon found soon lost."
quote[208]="Home affairs are not talked about on the public square."
quote[209]="Good millet is known as the harvest."
quote[210]="A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing."
quote[211]="Do not measure the timbers for your house in the forest."
quote[212]="Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be?"
quote[213]="Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water."
quote[214]="The end of an ox is beef, and the end of life is grief."
quote[215]="Don't kick a sleeping dog."
quote[216]="Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when the rain comes."
quote[217]="Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends."
quote[218]="Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows."
quote[219]="An eel that was not caught is as big as your thigh."
quote[220]="The dog's bark is not might, but fright."
quote[221]="Marriage is not a fast knot, but a slip knot."
quote[222]="Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more."
quote[223]="Don't make another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth."
quote[224]="Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you."
quote[225]="Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river."
quote[226]="If you try to cleanse others --like soap, you will waste away in the process!"
quote[227]="It is only the water that is spilt; the calabash is not broken."
quote[228]="He who wears too fine clothes, shall go about in rags."
quote[229]="Before eating, open thy mouth."
quote[230]="Too large a morsel chokes the child."
quote[231]="One must talk little, and listen much."
quote[232]="Not all the flowers of a tree produce fruit."
quote[233]="Two eyes see better than one."
quote[234]="He who loves money must labor."
quote[235]="If you watch your pot, your food will not burn."
quote[236]="Before one cooks, one must have the meat."
quote[237]="A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not."
quote[238]="He who begins a conversation, does not foresee the end."
quote[239]="If two horses are fighting, the grass underneath their hoofs will suffer."
quote[240]="A wise man who knows his proverbs can reconcile difficulties."
quote[241]="He who marries a beauty marries trouble."
quote[242]="Ashes fly back into the face of him who threw them."
quote[243]="He who does not mend his clothes will soon have none."
quote[244]="There is no medicine against old age."
quote[245]="He who boasts much can do little."
quote[246]="You cannot shave a man's head in his absence."
quote[247]="The egg becomes a cock."
quote[248]="Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respects."
quote[249]="The rat cannot call the cat to account."
quote[250]="He who wishes to barter, does not like his own property."
quote[251]="Seeing is better than hearing."
quote[252]="Evil knows where evil sleeps."
quote[253]="He who is sick will not refuse medicine."
quote[254]="A wealthy man will always have followers."
quote[255]="The dying man is not saved by medicine."
quote[256]="Some birds avoid water, ducks seek it."
quote[257]="The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one's preparations."
quote[258]="The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it."
quote[259]="Since he has no eyes, he says that eyes smell bad."
quote[260]="He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is."
quote[261]="He who runs from the white ant may stumble upon the stinging ant."
quote[262]="The stone in the water does not know how hot the hill is, parched by the sun."
quote[263]="The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man who is totally blind."
quote[264]="Someone else's leg do you no good in traveling."
quote[265]="Fine words do not produce food."
quote[266]="If the bull would throw you, lie down."
quote[267]="The bird flies high, but always returns to earth."
quote[268]="If you rise too early, the dew will wet you."
quote[269]="When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby."
quote[270]="Children of the same mother do not always agree."
quote[271]="What the child says, he has heard at home."
quote[272]="If you fill your mouth with a razor, you will spit blood."
quote[273]="Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."
quote[274]="Before shooting, one must aim."
quote[275]="He who has goods can sell them."
quote[276]="When one is in trouble, one remembers God."
quote[277]="Meat does not eat meat."
quote[278]="Before healing others, heal thyself."
quote[279]="A shepherd does not strike his sheep."
quote[280]="A bird can drink much, but an elephant drinks more."
quote[281]="Horns do not grow before the head."
quote[282]="If the stomachache were in the foot, one would go lame."
quote[283]="Time destroys all things."
quote[284]="Earth is the queen of beds."
quote[285]="Little is better than nothing."
quote[286]="One little arrow does not kill a serpent."
quote[287]="Do not be like the mosquito that bites the owner of the house."
quote[288]="Wisdom is like mushrooms that come after you have finished eating (too late!)."
quote[289]="When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten"
quote[290]="In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case."
quote[291]="If you building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?"
quote[292]="You set the trap after the rat has passed."
quote[293]="Spilled water is better than a broken jar."
quote[294]="Nobody tells all he knows."
quote[295]="The cow steps on the calf, but she does not hate it."
quote[296]="It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion."
quote[297]="Three kinds of people die poor: those who divorce, those who incur debts, and those who move around too much."
quote[298]="The heart is not a knee that can be bent."
quote[299]="If you speak, speak to him who understands you."
quote[300]="He may say he loves you. Wait and see what he does for you!"
quote[301]="The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep."
quote[302]="To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it in repentance."
quote[303]="When you know who his friend is, you know who he is."
quote[304]="The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away."
quote[305]="A healthy ear can stand hearing sick words."
quote[306]="If a centipede loses a leg, it does not prevent him from walking."
quote[307]="If your son laughs when you scold him, you ought to cry, for you have loss him; if he cries, you may laugh, for you have a worthy heir."
quote[308]="If a little tree grows in the shade of a larger tree, it will die small."
quote[309]="An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend."
quote[310]="Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you."
quote[311]="It is better to be loved than feared."
quote[312]="Proverbs are the daughters of experience."
quote[313]="A paddle here, a paddle there, -- the canoe stays still."
quote[314]="However full the house, the hen finds a corner to lay in."
quote[315]="Only a monkey understands a monkey."
quote[316]="If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree."
quote[317]="A big fish is caught with big bait."
quote[318]="He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn."
quote[319]="Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die"
quote[320]="If a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald."
quote[321]="He who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it."
quote[322]="A cow must graze where she is tied."
quote[323]="An orange never bears a lime."
quote[324]="Invite some people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom."
quote[325]="The sweet rice is eaten quickly."
quote[326]="An elephant's head is no lead for a child."
quote[327]="Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks."
quote[328]="It is the wandering dog that finds the old bone."
quote[329]="To try and to fail, is not laziness."
quote[330]="In the ocean, one does not need to sow water."
quote[331]="He who does not shave you, does not cut you."
quote[332]="A thief is always under suspicion."
quote[333]="To be without a friend, is to be poor, indeed."
quote[334]="A coward is full of precaution."
quote[335]="Poverty is slavery."
quote[336]="Wisdom does not come overnight."
quote[337]="Do not walk into a snake-pit with your eyes open."
quote[338]="Water and milk do not mix."
quote[339]="One cannot count on riches."
quote[340]="A brother is like one's shoulder."
quote[341]="Where I make a living, there is my home."
quote[342]="A termite can do noting to a stone save lick it."
quote[343]="A little shrub may grow into a tree."
quote[344]="Let rats shoots arrows at each other."
quote[345]="Do not mend your neighbor's fence before looking to your own."
quote[346]="A sheep cannot bleat in two different places at the same time."
quote[347]="Events follow one another like the days of the week."
quote[348]="Even the night has ears."
quote[349]="Everything has an end."
quote[350]="We start as fools and become wise through experience."
quote[351]="Even flies have ears."
quote[352]="Do not make a dress for a baby before the child is born."
quote[353]="In the world all things are two and two."
quote[354]="A roaring lion kills no game."
quote[355]="Only a fool tries to jump fire."
quote[356]="With wealth one wins a woman."
quote[357]="A proverb is the horse of conversation: when the conversation lags, a proverb will revive it."
quote[358]="A wise man who knows proverbs, reconciles difficulties."
quote[359]="If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut out your lips."
quote[360]="A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune."
quote[361]="The monkey does not see his own hind parts; he sees his neighbors'."
quote[362]="Do not leave your host's house, throwing mud in his well."
quote[363]="A word uttered cannot be taken back."
quote[364]="When the man is away, the monkey eats up the maize and enters the hut."
quote[365]="A half loaf is better than no bread."
quote[366]="Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand."
quote[367]="The horse who arrives early get good drinking water."
quote[368]="A fault confessed is half redressed."
quote[369]="One does not cross a river without getting wet."
quote[370]="Darkness conceals the hippopotamus."
quote[371]="A horse has four legs, yet it often falls."
quote[372]="The most beautiful fig may contain a worm."
quote[373]="Without life, there is nothing."
quote[374]="Follow the customs or flee the country."
quote[375]="The rich are always complaining."
quote[376]="Even an ant may harm an elephant."
quote[377]="Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat."


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