The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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No matter how high the bird flies, a hunter sets is trap on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about trap, hunters
Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing
As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about work, man
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about old, olderness
A good reputation is something you must pay for, but you can never buy.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about prestige, commerce, contentment, good, good luck
It is easier to carry an empty cup than one that is filled to the brim.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
You don't give someone a goat for a gift and still hold on to the rope.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about gifts, contentment
You don't have to lie down at the spot where your enemy has thrown you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about lie, enemies, contentment
If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house
You don't have to tell the deaf that there is a stampede in the market.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, contentment
If the banana pest doesn't die it will always reach at the ripe banana.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about death
A grasshopper that sleeps about will be soon awake in a lizard's mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If we do what we always did we will always remain what we always we're.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about kitchen, mother
Thorns themselves will not harm you -- you hurt yourself on the thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
The eyes that have seen the ocean cannot be satisfied by a mere lagoon.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes
To neglect one's ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about failure, ancestors, wealth, life
If a frog leaves the swamp for the mountains, it means it is in danger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about danger
Tell your friend a lie, if he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about secret, lie, truth
