What is told into a man's ear is often heard a hundred miles away.
If you see what the ducks eat then you eat no more duck.
If a woman doesn't know what she has to answer then the sea is dry.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.
If relatives help each other, what harm can be done to them?
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside.
He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.
What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.
You can measure the depth of the sea but what about a man's heart?
If crocodiles eat their own eggs what would they do to the flesh of a frog.
What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.
You don't get a headache from what other people have drunk.
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
The daughter-in-law wipes away what the mother-in-law has seen.
He that peeks through a keyhole may see what will vex him.
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
