Proverbs and old sayings, page 152

43574 proverbs and old sayings

To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about garden

Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like a oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

When the bells are in water they can't make any sound.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about water

It is not worth telling a lovely story at the funeral.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you need ears go and borrow them from the elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, contentment

Before you begin to trade in blame look in the mirror.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about commerce, contentment

It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love, fall

If the needle doesn't pass, the thread doesn't follow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A friend who fawns is better than an enemy who smiles.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies

Him with a bushy field cannot harvest edibles from it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The spirits are the strength and counsel to the living.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moral

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, contentment

If you aren't in your own home, you dance while seated.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, home, contentment

There is no physician who can cure the disease of love.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love

It's the big birds that teach the young ones to flight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about flight

A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about clothes, sleep, children, woman

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth