More Maori Proverbs
- 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.
- A white heron flies once.
- It would be better to let others praise.
- The totara has fallen in the forest of Tane.
- To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on the earth is sure.
- My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.
- 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.