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I found this Kenyan proverb unique.....care to share your favorite strange proverb?

Posted - June 19, 2017
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  • 17596
    That's a good one.  One of my all time faves is We plan, God laughs. 
      June 19, 2017 11:29 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Thanks and yes the proverb you cited,...is how life is...;))
      June 20, 2017 11:20 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    A man with two feet planted firmly on the ground is a man who can't get his pants off.   

    Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.   
      June 20, 2017 12:54 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    Jack Handey fan I see.
      June 20, 2017 7:16 AM MDT
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  • 7126
    I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.   
      June 20, 2017 12:31 PM MDT
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  • 7683
     Oh...a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground....that's new...the rest yeah...so true!

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      June 20, 2017 11:24 PM MDT
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  • 16792
    "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
    - Chinese proverb
      June 20, 2017 3:47 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Yea I knew that;))
      June 20, 2017 11:24 PM MDT
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  • "Two wrongs don't make a right." ...

    "The pen is mightier than the sword." ...
    "No man is an island." ...


      June 20, 2017 6:19 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Yes......amongst the three...pen is mightier than the sword....I luv it.....so true, words indeed have a lasting impression...they can make or unmake!
      June 20, 2017 11:28 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    "When you are unenlightened, you chop wood and carry water...when you are enlightened, you chop wood and carry water."
      June 20, 2017 7:18 AM MDT
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  • "All work and no play ... that's what the poor do."  (English)

    "Superstition is what the ignorant call their ignorance."  (Chinese)

    "By the time you leave Texas, you're halfway there."  (Gear Jammer) :)
      June 20, 2017 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    The last one,...ALF can't decipher;))
      June 20, 2017 11:29 PM MDT
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  • Big state ... covers the center of US ... so when you finally get out of it, you're halfway to your destination!  
    It's just a trucker's joke (Gear Jammer). 2,177 mi. from west US border to east US border and Texas is 857 mi. of it.
      June 20, 2017 11:38 PM MDT
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  • 16792
    Texas would fit into one corner of South Australia - and that's not our biggest State ...
      June 22, 2017 4:23 AM MDT
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