Misery loves company. Nine is nearly ten. No length without end. No rain season without mosquitoes. No one can perform a celebration by himself. No water without waves. Of five fingers, which is the best? One does not throw away one's old praying mat just because of a new one that one has borrowed. One finger does not kill a louse. One in the woodpile does not laugh at the one in the fire. One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. One who relates with a corrupt person likewise gets corrupted. One whose seeds have not sprouted does not give up planting. Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping. Only someone else can scratch your back. Peace is costly but it is worth the expense. Regular work tires a woman but totally wrecks a man. Someone relative is blood of the tongue, some you spit out and some you swallow. Stream, it knows where to flow. Suppression of hunger leads to death. The abundance of fruit caused the death of the ...