Being a good friend of a scorpion doesn't mean that you can't be stung by a honeybee.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, good, good luck, contentment
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He who is not beaten by the sun or the rain, will eventually be beaten by the hunger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunger, rain, sun
He who predicts or prophesise isn't the one who causes his predictions to take shape.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you've never been to a pit latrine, you will never know that cockroach is a chief.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
It's better to be punished for telling the truth than to be rewarded for saying lies.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth
An animal that gives birth to a young one in the desert must suckle it in the desert.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fairy tales, hunters
He ought to be feared who sends you with a message, not the one to whom you are sent.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
A person who is always looking at the sky will never discover anything on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky, people
The one who hasn't strength to pound yams pretends to drive away flies from the yams.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about secret, people
If you don't know where your going to then any road will take you where you're going.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you don't want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don't attend the monkey dance.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, contentment
It is not with saying honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother, contentment
He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, man
He who is first to receive something forgets when his friend will receive their share.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sadness, drinking, people
