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