A man who lives on the banks of the river should not wash his hands with spittle.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bankers, man
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I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about celebrity, stars, moon, contentment
Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth
No matter how tall a camel is, it will never get taller than the hair on its back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you hate your ancestors then assume your dead than you will love the hereafter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, hate, love, contentment
Let us be glad to those who make us happy for their gods who make our souls happy.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about happiness, gods
The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about body
The hen knows that dawn has arrived but it leaves the duty of crowing to the cock.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about duty
He who is wise endeavours to learn how to understand the truth not less than that.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth
He who doesn't know where he is going doesn't know whether or when he will arrive.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
As the dog said, 'If I fall down for you and you fall down for me, it is playing. '
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, contentment
Two rams cannot drink from the same bucket at the same time; they will lock horns.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, time
An invasion of an army can be resisted but an invasion of ideas can't be resisted.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about army
Every old man was once a young man but not every young man will become an old man.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man, old, olderness
Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If a dog bites you once it's his fault, but if it bites you again it's your fault.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
The words of the elders do not lock all the doors, they leave the right door open.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, word
By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, secret, time, contentment
