Proverbs and old sayings, page 182

43574 proverbs and old sayings

One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about games, time

It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don't stop.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

An elephant grows and becomes an adult, even if people do not like it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

She who grinds millet should have wisdom about rainy clouds and winds.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wisdom

When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wealth, contentment

The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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