Table of Contents
1 Man Is like Pepper-You Only Know Him When You've Ground Him 1
2 Languages Differ, but Coughs Are the Same 15
3 A Snake Can Only Give Birth to Long Things 29
4 When the Laborer Is Praised, His Cutlass Begins to Cut More Keenly 39
5 Going to Church Doesn't Make You a Holy Person Any More Than Going to a Garage Makes You a Mechanic 59
6 If You Are Eating with the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon 71
7 It Is Not What You Are Called, but What You Answer To 89
8 If You Sleep with an Itching Anus, You Will Definitely Wake Up with Your Hand Smelling 105
9 Where You Fall, You Should Know that It Is God Who Pushed You 125
10 Procrastination Is the Thief of Time 141
11 The Same Sun That Melts Wax Also Hardens Clay 151
12 Success Is 10 Percent Ability and 90 Percent Sweat 167
13 However Hard a Lizard Does a Push-up, It Will Never Have an Alligator's Chest 179
14 Smooth Seas Do Not Make Skillful Sailors 205
15 It Is When There Is a Stampede that a Person with Big Buttocks Knows that He Carries a Load 211
16 Warm Water Never Forgets that It Was Once Cold 223
17 A Bird That Flies off the Earth and Lands on an Anthill Is Still on the Ground 251
18 Be a Mountain or Lean on One 263
19 A Flea Can Trouble a Lion More Than a Lion Can Trouble a Flea 275
20 If You Are Building a House and a Nail Breaks, Do You Stop Building or Do You Change the Nail? 281
21 Just Because a Man Is Short, It Does Not Make Him a Child 291
Epilogue 301
Acknowledgments 303
Notes 305