If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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When an elephant eats and eats and still cries for more, it is the grass that will get embarrassed.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you haven't done anything evil then you shouldn't be worried about devils knocking on your door.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about haven, devil, contentment
The one chased away with a stick comes back and the one chassed away with reason doesn't come back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about reason
Don't expect to be offered a chair when you are visiting a place where the chief sits on the floor.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
It is better to be kind to our neighbors than to cross the world to offer incense to our ancestors.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, world
A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her badly and she will go wild.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman
A man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foofoo is no longer searching for soup.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about searching, man
If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your bound to lose it completely.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment
Live patiently in the world; know that those who hate you are more numerous than those who love you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about hate, world, love, contentment
If you pay homage to the man on top, others will pay homage to you when it's your turn to be on top.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment, man
It's not the aroma of the soup that tells you whether it's sweet or not, but it's the tongue's taste.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg, it is the egg that suffers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Every time you have something good there is someone who wants you to throw it so as they can pick it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, contentment, good, good luck
Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about spirit
You could destroy everything I have believed in and your father before you and his father before you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about destruction, contentment
If you keep your head and heart going in the right direction you don't have to worry about your feet.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about worry, rightness, heads, heart, contentment
A person who is carrying an elephant on his head should not use his feet to tap snails on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about use, heads, people
If the fish comes out of the river to tell you that the crocodile has one eye, you should believe it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about faith, fishing, contentment
The fox must be chased away first after that the hen might be warned against wandering into the bush.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
