When a lion cannot find the flesh to feed on, it has no choice but to eat the grass.
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You may as well die fighting the enemy than live exploited and be persecuted by him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies, death, contentment
The worm that exposes itself on the ground is waiting for a lucky bird to devour it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Don't be stupid to replace wisdom with knowledge because you will lose understanding.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge, wisdom, contentment
Behind every sweaty face of a cattle rustler is a story of determination and courage.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about determination, courage, face
Having little knowledge is like having your hands tied around your neck like a slave.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge
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
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
