Proverbs and old sayings, page 180

43574 proverbs and old sayings

It's better to eat a mushroom in freedom than to eat meat in slavery.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about slavery

The eye looking at the sun will not need an adviser before it blinks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun, need

The arrow that missed the head of its target will never hit the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

Someone who doesn't listen to others deserves not to be listened too.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Give a stammerer enough time and he will pronounce his father's name.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about name, time

Those who do not forgive break the bridge on which they have to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You can kill a man's identity on earth but you cannot kill is spirit.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about identity, spirit, earth, contentment, man

You can learn a lot about someone by observing him when he is hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, death, people, old, olderness

It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing, man

The frowning face of a goat doesn't prevent it being taken to market.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, being, face

A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, contentment

Having beauty doesn't mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about perseverance, marriage, beauty

The blight ness of the moon can only be experienced in total darkness.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon

Good things sell themselves; those that are bad have to be advertised.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about commerce, things, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If an insect as ever bit you when you see it, you kill it or run away.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about insects, contentment

He who never eats pumpkins with you, you prepare a few slices for him.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about beauty, woman

When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn't leak.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house