When you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about help, contentment
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He who asks you to converse ends up telling others that you're shouting.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about conversation, end, contentment
Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about teaching, man
The eye cannot bear loads yet it can tell heavy objects from light ones.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about objects, light
If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in the forest.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain, love, contentment
A husband may be the head of a home but the wife is the heart of a home.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, husband, wife, heads, heart
Without human companions, paradise itself would be an undesirable place.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about paradise, human imperfections
You cannot blindfold a man and expect him to ferry you across the river.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment, man
Whenever lightening strikes, everyone runs to cover his or her own head.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads
During the dry season it is better to befriend the owner of the pirogue.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about season
A wise person must know the language, sayings, and tales of his society.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about society, fairy tales, language, people
It is not the lamb that should go and ask the lion if it has had dinner.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Where God boils his yam that is exactly where the devil roasts his fish.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing, devil, god
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman, old, olderness
People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about circumstances, change, people
Those who make friendship with a club shouldn't expect a good handshake.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about friendship, good, good luck
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about greatness, respect, man
You can take a goat to the river, but you can't make it drink the water.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, water, contentment
No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
