Here we are presenting to you Etienne Tiffou's collected proverbs, but with some extra explanation by Sher Baz Kaleem.
TIF 0001 - Not enough and trap | TIF 0002 - Disliking garden grains and daughter Ġuno | TIF 0003 - Aliabad's people on one side, Abadang's son on the other side | TIF 0004 - Teeth and food are not available at the same time | TIF 0005 - A bean under my tooth | TIF 0006 - Whatever seed you plant, you will reap its fruit | TIF 0007 - Here is the ball, here is the polo ground | TIF 0008 - The sky is high and the earth hard | TIF 0009 - They shot at me with a bow made of my own horns and skin | TIF 0010 - If you spit towards the sky, it will fall back on your face | TIF 0011 - Sunburn on my head, calluses on my feet | TIF 0012 - For your red tongue, a blow on your black head | TIF 0013 - The bottom of the cooking pot is well known to the hearthstones | TIF 0014 - The cooking pot said: „My bottom is of gold.“ The fireplace said: „Where was I?“ | TIF 0015 - You know the taste of a man later; the taste of a fruit you know immediately | TIF 0016 - When we die, we die only once | TIF 0017 - When I came back from Baloi, Soori was still flooded | TIF 0018 - Wide throat eats but wide mouth speaks | TIF 0019 - No praise for the water carrier, but no blame for her for breaking the jug | TIF 0020 - I don’t mind so much the cat’s stealing some milk as its licking ist lips afterwards | TIF 0021 - From one country to another one, even the chewing is different | TIF 0022 - Even with ist muzzle bound, the calf remains under its mother | TIF 0023 - When he cow is fat, the buttermilk is thin | TIF 0024 - Water cannot flow down a straight stick | TIF 0025 - Without water, not even a sparrow‘s beak can become moist; without firewood, a whole camel can still be cooked | TIF 0026 - Early morning at sunrise, even a crow is a falcon | TIF 0027 - Beatings instill salutary fear | TIF 0028 - When the flesh is cut, the bone is also suffering | TIF 0029 - To go for shelter from falling rocks behind a pudding-stone bank | TIF 0030 - A fish is unpleasant to see, but agreeable to eat | TIF 0031 - Hunger is sweet | TIF 0032 - The sparrow feels at ease even in the thorns | TIF 0033 - The sparrow‘s feast is the ox‘s noise | TIF 0034 - The sparrow‘s feast is the dove‘s noise | TIF 0035 - The sparrow searches for the thorn, the blind for the wall, and the lame person for the stick | TIF 0036 - If I stumbled, so I stumbled; but you, you will not stumble | TIF 0037 - The tool makes the work and its owner boasts | TIF 0038 - Those who are skilled lead those who are not into trouble | TIF 0039 - Nobody sees the dirt on his own neck | TIF 0040 - If you don‘t teach him when he is young and flexible, you won‘t be able to do it when he is old and rigid | TIF 0041 - Clothes belong to others, but children are your own | TIF 0042 - Who doesn‘t lose the road, doesn‘t lose the life | TIF 0043 - The road says: „I‘m long“; the water says: „I‘m long“. | TIF 0044 - If you tell kings that mice eat iron, they will believe it | TIF 0045 - To get rid of the rat, he let the cat inside | TIF 0046 - The rat at its last gasp is sport to the cat | TIF 0047 - He who heartens you will often also dishearten you | TIF 0048 - After selling your son there still remain your nephews | TIF 0049 - No one says that his own buttermilk is sour | TIF 0050 - Your own old clothes are better than other‘s new ones | TIF 0051 - If you have no trousers, the day won‘t come (to an end) | TIF 0052 - If you sow corn, you will harvest corn;if you sow barley, you will harvest barley | TIF 0053 - Your hands will find some happiness, but your heart can‘t | TIF 0054 - A woman, when she becomes old, needs a man;a man, when he becomes old, needs fire | TIF 0055 - There is no difference when you travel with a woman or with a donkey | TIF 0056 - Man is woman‘s hand, man‘s hand is ox | TIF 0057 One doesn‘t know where a woman w- ill have her place;one doesn‘t know where a man will have his grave | TIF 0058 - The loyalty of a woman is like the wetness of the rain | TIF 0059 - If your wife becomes distasteful to you, the night won‘t come (to an end) | TIF 0060 - When your toe strikes a stone, your finger goes to your mouth | TIF 0061 - If your parents don‘t teach you obedience,wood and stone will | TIF 0062 - The river which carried away your father is gone | TIF 0063 - A quoin from your skin is a danger for you | TIF 0064 - If you associate with a crow, you will eat dung;if you associate with a hawk, you will eat meat | TIF 0065 - Even crows find their offspring beautiful | TIF 0066 - To a sick man one night is like a hundred nights;a hundred days of ease is one night | TIF 0067 - To the barking dog a bone | TIF 0068 - A lame horse and a broken gun | TIF 0069 - I found the gold, but not the skin to carry it | TIF 0070 - There is always a thief in front of an open door