Oh! The toothless man’s corn has ripened,
How will he eat it?
It is not for the goose to decide how the gander manages her grains.
Defend with caution, the vulture;
For it may be you whose eyes he gorges out tomorrow.
He who fights and runs today lives to fight another day.
Yet the man who fights and takes to flight shows himself a coward.
No, slow and steady wins the race.
Forget not that too slow presents the tortoise as the winner of the race.
The man who limps is not selective of venues for limping.
Truth is a gourd. Surpress it under water for millenia. Only do not remove the force or it bounces right up.
Jealousy is ash. Throw it at someone and it is blown back to you.
To a hungry man even chaff is a delicacy.
True! And a hungry man is an angry man.
Unless one goes beneath the flanks of an elephant,
One never notices that he has lost weight.
The spider is almost unnoticeable,
With appendages that a gentle breeze can pull off;
Yet he dines with kings in palaces.
When wind is gotten of pending disruption of the dance, the disruption is postponed.
Pitiable above all is the man who lives only for the now;
Forgetting that eternity stares time in the face;
The one who strikes a woman,
Forgets the bosom that cuddled him in infancy.
A head that is empty from childhood,
Never properly tutored with the balance of life,
Ends up as a puppet in the hands of evil men,
Who pay them handsomely to get their hands soiled
With the blood of men
To further the most selfish of causes,
And an empty gong
Makes the loudest noise.
The weakling whose back is the Almighty
Is greater than the strongest of men
Who have a million soldiers with ammunition,
Who knows not his creator.
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