"The short-sighted ant works hard for the winter."

-- Tukoproverb

"What you invent you forget, and what you forget you invent."

-- Tukoproverb

"Lost sheep are often profound."

-- Tukoproverb

"The beginning of anything is its most interesting time."

-- Tukoproverb

"Life flows downstream, but fortune sails upstream."

-- Tukoproverb

"The seed of truth leads to the Tree of Knowledge and the end of Eden."

-- Tukoproverb

"The wise examine the root; the fool sees only the stump."

-- Tukoproverb

"Who sailed the seven seas never saw an ocean."

-- Tukoproverb

"A fox's cunning is a spider's craft."

-- Tukoproverb

"A cloud in the mountains loses its rain."

-- Tukoproverb

"Grey hairs are the tears of age."

-- Tukoproverb

"See that man next to the man dressed like him? Avoid that man: he is a plagiarist."

-- Tukoproverb

"How many eyes does the weathervane have?"

-- Tukoproverb

"Wealth is a troubled sleep."

-- Tukoproverb

"The wind blew away the clouds, but the moon had eaten the sun."

-- Tukoproverb

"The laughter of fools is bony; the smile of the wise is nourishment."

-- Tukoproverb

"I stared at the weed, and I never understood; out the corner of my eye I glimpsed the flower, and I understood."

-- Tukoproverb

"Learn not the philosopher's thoughts; learn from them."

-- Tukoproverb

"An olive tree is still an olive tree."

-- Tukoproverb

"Open the curtain, and learn; draw the curtain, and remember."

-- Tukoproverb

"Throw a ball and fall in love."

-- Tukoproverb

"A mouse in chains dreams of being the cat; a cat in chains dreams of killing the mouse."

-- Tukoproverb

"A camel wanders the desert looking for a coin; the coin is hidden in an ear of corn."

-- Tukoproverb

"The blackbird sings its want, the worm provides."

-- Tukoproverb

"Money cannot recover a single hour."

-- Tukoproverb

"Coin and time are spinning; but the coin will come to rest."

-- Tukoproverb

"The hyena buys laughter from another’s claws."

-- Tukoproverb

"What the ant saves for winter the ice will crack."

-- Tukoproverb

"One draws a circle; another draws a line; when the line meets with itself they will understand each other."

-- Tukoproverb

"A miser one half of a fool, a spendthrift the other."

-- Tukoproverb

"Life is a round of things that must be done but really do not matter."

-- Tukoproverb

"A smooth tongue is to a rough gem as a pin to a claw."

-- Tukoproverb

"A round eye turns on a flat world."

-- Tukoproverb

"Do you throw a coin into the cup and watch it grow?"

-- Tukoproverb

"Build your home; live outside it."

-- Tukoproverb

"A game is life without bones."

-- Tukoproverb

"Are an artist’s canvas and a banknote the same?"

-- Tukoproverb

"The protector of women is the controller of women."

-- Tukoproverb

"Women and children equals women are children."

-- Tukoproverb

"Beauty is in the eye of the stakeholder."

-- Tukoproverb