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Marry a man with calloused hands.
More Maori Proverbs
For a woman and land, men perish.
Without foresight or vision the people will be lost.
He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.
I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea.
When one house dies, a second lives.
Like a dog follows his nose, man will find opportunity.
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
The leader at the front and the workers behind the scenes.
As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
As an old net withers, another is remade.
It is the octopus who says sitting is working.
There is food at the end of my hands.
Marry a man with calloused hands.
Don’t die like an octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
With red and black the work will be complete.
Have two strings to your bow.
A canoe which we are all in with no exception.
An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.
My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective.
Your Museum from Home
The sweet potato does not say how sweet he is.
One canoe which we are all in with no exception.
Leave your praises for someone else.
Early arrivals have the pick.
My friends, this is the essence of life.
When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.
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