Maori proverbs
Maori Proverbs32 proverbs“When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.”
More Maori proverbs
It is the octopus who says sitting is working.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb The leader at the front and the workers behind the scenes.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb When one house dies, a second lives.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb For a woman and land, men perish.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on the earth is sure.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb It would be better to let others praise.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb Early arrivals have the pick.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb One canoe which we are all in with no exception.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb Your Museum from Home
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb Have two strings to your bow.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb Don’t die like an octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb There is food at the end of my hands.
Maori ProverbMaori Proverb As an old net withers, another is remade.
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