When a chick ignores its mother's warning, the eagle grasps it for a meal.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
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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
If you can bear the hissing of a snake, don't complain when you are bitten.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
A sick way between two people can only be cared for if the two of them die.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about death, people
A bottle that believes it's cracked to smile it will end up on the dustbin.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about smile, end
Even when a goat knows that it is being dragged to graze, it still resists.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being
Death is like a dress that, at some point or another, everyone has to wear.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about death
When an elephant becomes as small as a monkey, it ceases to be an elephant.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly that touches on the scrotum.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The house roof fights the rain, but the person who is sheltered ignores it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain, people, home, house
If you want to know how the true story goes, wait till the arguments start.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
The weed that grows by the riverbank will not suffer the effect of draught.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about suffering
A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
