If you want to fight fire, you don't wear a skirt made of dry grass.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, fire, fire brigade, contentment
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He who gets annoyed of darkness ends up knocking himself everywhere.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about end
The danger that threatens the hunting dog, threatens the hunter too.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunters, danger
Never travel with a friend who disserts you at the notice of danger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about danger, contentment
He who chews two bones at the same time will surely bite his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time
The time to slap a king is the time when a fly touches on his cheek.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time
Those who judge before they know the facts will learn to shed tears.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about tears, judges
When the river dries up, we will all see where the crocodile sleeps.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A woman is like a banana; one alone can turn the whole bunch rotten.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman
No matter how close the ear is to the eye they can't see each other.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Until the old moon disappears completely, the new moon can not come.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon, old, olderness
A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother's eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about tears, eyes, children, mother
No matter how kind a man might be he cannot accept to share his wife.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man
The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, nothing
A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, woman, nothing
He who moves with each day is better than another who waits for luck.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, good luck, day
The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you borrow from an eagle you will always be looking up in the sky.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky, contentment
Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
No matter how well tamed a lion, it will one day go back to the bush.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about day
