With red and black the work will be complete.

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.