Proverbs and old sayings, page 186

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go the same way.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about trains, children, contentment

A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, fishing, home, love

If you see someone riding a bamboo-cane, tell him What a lovely horse!

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

He who never knows where is coming from will never know where he is going.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Whoever rides on the lion's back must surely end up in the lion's stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun, blind, people

Hunt in every jungle, for there is wisdom and good hunting in all of them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wisdom, good, good luck

Don't see animals around the village and say there is nobody to hunt them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about animals

If your mouth is in someone else's kitchen it cannot get its independence.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about independence, kitchen

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about genius, limits, stupidity

When cats are hairdressers, rats will always go around with uncombed hair.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It is when one holds the sacrificial lamb that he begins to seek the gods.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about gods

Several repeated visits to the mud pit enable the wasp to build its house.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

When a chick ignores its mother's warning, the eagle grasps it for a meal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to break.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about kitchen, time, day

A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about day

The chicken that sits along the road to eat shall never enjoy a good meal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about good, good luck

It is only the eagle that can give an account of the whisper of the cloud.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wealth, wine

If you run too fast you bypass a safe place you would have hidden yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fasting, contentment