Man Proverbs (1982 Proverbs)
- Though it is the hand that gives, the man must be thanked.
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- The forest not only hides man's enemies but its full of man's medicine, healing power and food.
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- The mouth of an elderly man is without teeth, but never without words of wisdom.
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- The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.
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- No matter how short a man is, he will always see the sky.
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- A wind can move the branches of trees but it will never move the head of a man.
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- A man should live to prove himself worth of his own flesh and blood.
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- No matter how rich a man may be he cannot sleep on two beds at ago.
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- A man is taller than every mountain he climbs.
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- The death of a man doesn't make his wives men.
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- Be careful when you are sharing a calabash of porridge with a toothless man.
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- A man is obliged to beat his own chest when he has no drum.
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- No matter how powerful a man, he cannot make the rains fall on his farm alone.
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- Be aware of a man with a sweet tongue he can lead you to buying bad meat.
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- The cow engenders the man.
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- No matter how poor a village, there is always one rich man.
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- He who will be a man can be seen from how he stretches is little manhood.
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- A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.
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- No matter how often a man quarrels with his wife he doesn't do so during the hours lending to bedtime.
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- Men fall only in order to rise.
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- It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.
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- Don't seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt you may he break his neck.
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- An old man may miss his target with a stone but never with his word.
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- A short man is not a boy.
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- A man is called a drunkard when he misbehaves, not when he drinks.
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- Only a patient man can milk a lioness.
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- Men die but words live on.
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- If you want to know how long a man's tongue is, let him use his mouth to lick honey from a plate.
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- Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
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- One volunteer is better than ten forced men.
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- Banish a strong man, banish a strong man but when there is war you will look for the strong man.
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- No matter how kind a man might be he cannot accept to share his wife.
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- Man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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- Don't ever try to give a spear to a former mad man.
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- A man is always on the move.
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- The brave man is not he who doesn't feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
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- Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.
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- Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
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- If a man rides on the back of a tiger, he should never be surprised if he ends up in its tummy.
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- The blind man would like to show the way to others.
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- No matter how fast a man can run, he can never chase his shadow and catch it.
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- It is a man with a harp who should decide how he is going to sleep.
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- If you break a coconut on a man's head, he will not enjoy eating it.
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- If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
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- Happy is a man who goes hunting for rats and catches an elephant.
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- Don't count the many times a man falls but those times he rises up.
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- Man invented language to satisfy is deep need to complain.
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- Every old man was once a young man but not every young man will become an old man.
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- By his deeds we know a man.
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- Bad luck for one man is good luck for another.
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- Anyone who has sold an old lady, knows the price of an old man.
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- A satisfied man doesn't understand the feeling of a hungry man.
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- Great men think alike.
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- A man who is putting on his armour for war should not boast like a man who's taking it off.
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- The downfall of man begins with pride.
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- No man is a hero to his debtors.
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- It is possible to kill a man but it is impossible to kill his name.
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- If you pay homage to the man on top, others will pay homage to you when it's your turn to be on top.
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- Do not tell the man carrying you that he stinks.
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- A man should not, out of pride and etiquette, swallow his phlegm.
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- The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.
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- No man can outwit the ancestors.
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- If you man is a wizard, you must become a witch.
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- Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day
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- Nicknames are the hardest stones the devil can throw at a man.
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- A woman who pursues a man for sex looses her spiritual beauty.
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- A man should not be too happy in the morning.
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- A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.
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- A mountain doesn't reach out to mountain, a man is reaching out to a man.
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- A boy may cry; but a man as to conceal his pain.
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- Man sins.
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- A wolf's pup will grow into a wolf even though it be raised among men.
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- A crazy man can be recognised not by his words, but by his actions.
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- A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
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- You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
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- When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.
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- When a man says he does not mind, then he really does.
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- There are three things that a man must know to survive in this world: what is too much for him, what is too little, and what is just right.
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- The wise man is father of the fool.
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- The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
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