Proverbs and old sayings, page 181

43574 proverbs and old sayings

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

Two cats can never be equal; one will always be bigger than the other.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

What is said over the dead lion's body could not be said to him alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body

Kindness is a language, which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about language, blind

Success is a ladder which cannot be climbed with hands in your pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about success

Blessings of ancestors are greater than those of a living human being.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, human imperfections, being

He who doesn't know how a snake smells shouldn't walk into the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who reminds you or corrects you is better than he who slanders you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A coward always hides behind someone else after he has thrown a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He that fought the lion must surely have the lion's claws in his body.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body

If you cry and receive someone to help you cry more then you cry more.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about help, contentment

The cow with no tail can only depend on goats to rid himself of flies.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Without impalas and hyenas, the lion cannot be the king of the jungle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about attention, children, mother