Maori Proverbs

Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.

It is the octopus who says sitting is working.

Marry a man with calloused hands.

With red and black the work will be complete.

A canoe which we are all in with no exception.

My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective.

He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.

When one house dies, a second lives.

Early arrivals have the pick.

When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.