Some Useful Proverbs

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1. Happiness is like perfume – You can not spray it on yourself without affecting the     one next to you

2. A man who has never submitted to anything will soon submit to a burial mat.

3. Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you but rather the number of people who smile at you

4. True happiness does not come from having everything I want but from wanting      everything I have.

5. A wound given by words is many times harder to cure than that given by the sword.

6. A fly that had nobody to advise it followed a corpse into a tomb.

7. On the day of the monkey’s death all the trees become slippery.

8. We do not only offend others by doing what is bad to them but also by our failure to      do what is good to them.

9. He who provides you with seeds is better than he who provides you with food.

10. It is those who visit the orchards who eat good fruits

11. A lost opportunity never returns

12. A short man is not a boy

13. When a stick bites your eye, it wants you to see

14. A tongue cannot pretend to be ignorant of what the teeth are chewing.

15. No matter how short you may be, you can see the sky.

Originally written by Muchunguzi Theobald in the PCJ VOICES, Volume 11, 2002
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