If you go to your in-laws you do not come back empty handed but with a cock.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about life
He who is not happy with the position of the sun should climb and change it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about change, happiness, sun
A bad habit is like fire you can't play with it and expect not to get burnt.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about habits, fire, fire brigade, bad luck, bad, contentment
That you don't give birth too, you let him or her carry a stone on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, contentment
If someone is walking towards you, you don't need to tell him come here.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, contentment
As soon as you question someone's integrity, it is a reflection of your own.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about integrity, question, contentment
Your feet will take you away from home but your stomach will bring you back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, contentment
He who doesn't know a grave's coldness, doesn't give the dead their respect.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about respect
It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become pregnant.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife
A regular fighter who discords peace is bound to be fought by his own anger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about anger, peace
He who wants to take much dies before going to the in-laws for introduction.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Knowledge is like a garden, if you don't cultivate it you cannot harvest it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, garden, contentment
Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, life, contentment
Even if you rease your clothes in very hot water you still need to dry them.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about clothes, need, water, contentment
A king is like a lake, you can't dispense him, otherwise, you risk drowning.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about risk, contentment
A false friend is like a shadow their only with you when the sun is shining.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about shadow, sun, contentment
The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about opinion
The sparrow says: I have not eaten... so the parrot will not eat either.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Be careful when you are sharing a calabash of porridge with a toothless man.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man, contentment
