* The Child of an elephant will not be a dwarf.

* What an old man sees while lying down, a young man can never see even when he climbs up in a tree.

* Only the thing for which you have struggled will last.

* Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.

* Whoever is patient with a cowrie shell will one day have thousands of them.

*Seeing is better than hearing.

* The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one’s preparations.

* What the child says, he has heard at home.

* A wealthy man will always have followers.

* Fine words do not produce food.

* If you fill your mouth with a razor, you will spit blood.

* Water may cover the footprint on the ground but it does not cover the words of the mouth.

* One who has been bitten by a snake lives in fear of worms.

* Allah made the silk-cotton tree beautiful so let the fig tree cease being angry.