Great Throughts Treasury

"Strategy is better than strength."

"Plenty and envy lay down together."

"Escaping with your reputation is better than escaping with your property."

"Truth last longer while falsehood doesn't last long."

"You don't love someone else's love."

"Success comes after tears."

"If you always oppose on peoples attitude or progress, then why not correct it."

"If it is a matter of eating and not of selling, then the hen is better than a horse."

"There is no such thing as distance where God is concerned. "

" A word is enough for the wise."

"Set a thief to catch a thief."

"Whatever goes up must come down."

"Silent is the best answer to a fool."

"Abundance will make cotton pull a stone."

"Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit."

"Even silence speaks."

"Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish."

"Even the Niger river must flow around an island."

"Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena, but it does not steal a bale of cloth."

"If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be."

"Man is like a pepper; till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is."

"Man only ever scores nine out of ten"

"When the hyena drinks, the dog can only look on."

"You must live within your sacred truth."

"The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one."