The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in lies, you can't undo it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth, contentment
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It is the absence of a cat that allowed the rat to climb onto the table.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
He who never moves about appreciates only one's mother's cookery skills.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
He who talks to you while travelling at night is thanked in the morning.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about night, contentment
When a slippery ground lies ahead do not laugh at those who have fallen.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, heart, contentment
When there is a big tree, small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun
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
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
