If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wish, death
The problem with the palace attendant isn't how to steal the king's drums but where to play them from.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
No matter how often a man quarrels with his wife he doesn't do so during the hours lending to bedtime.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man
A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about reason, man
If you travel with lies you will reach your destination but you might be unable to retrace your steps.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, contentment
At that particular time a mad person gives you something take it immediately before he changes is mind.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mind, people, time, contentment
If two brothers fight over their father's land, it is a stranger who will enjoy there sweat and labour.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight
He that fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, heads, nothing
The ancestors may annoy you but don't make a mistake of annoying them back, they may annoy you forever.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mistake, ancestors, contentment
It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
Those who master to climb trees with their teeth are in better position to tell which barks are bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bitter
When the cockroach decides to make the cock its friend it must be ready to end up in the cock's stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about end
A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine
It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, eyes, bad luck, contentment, bad, good, good luck
In a community it's better every person to have a little of something than one person to have everything.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment
Don't make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or else it will strip you naked.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
