You do not verify from your mother the authenticity of what your grandmother has told you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother, contentment
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The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Even if you dance for you enemy on the rock, he will accuse you of splashing water on him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rocks, dance, enemies, water, contentment
If you are digging a pit for your enemy, don't make it too deep, for you may fall into it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies, fall, contentment
You can out run that which is running after you but not that that's running inside of you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about season
Don't look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes, contentment
Where rain has ever been trapped before when it rains again it will get trapped once again.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain
If you have not been to two different bazaars, then you do not know what the best value is.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about value, contentment
A wound given by a word is many times harder to cure than that which is given by the sword.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word
He who doesn't listen to advise from others goes to his parents in-law smeared with faeces.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about parents, law
If you debark a tree don't expect it to live again; you can only plant another of its kind.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
A canoe peddler doesn't tell the crocodile he has along snout until he's crossed the river.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
There is no day that goes without the moon and no day that goes without sunrise and sunset.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon, day
Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about dream, water, old, olderness, contentment
The song sang by men when going to hunt is not the same song they sing when they come back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
A man who is putting on his armour for war should not boast like a man who's taking it off.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about war, man
Enjoy breakfast all alone, share lunch with your best friend and give dinner to your enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies
A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about failure, proudness, heart
