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• A stream coming down won’t let you swim up. • When a fowl eats your neighbor’s corn, drive it away; another time, it will eat yours. • If you play push with the porcupine, expect to get sore hands.
• The rat cannot call the cat to account. • A wise man who knows proverbs can reconcile difficulties.
• Before starting to sing, the young bird will listen to the song of the old. • There is no medicine against old age.
• A proverb is the horse of conversation; when the conversation lags, a proverb revives it. • He who marries a beauty marries trouble. • If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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