Until a crab finds itself in a very hot pot of soup, it will never understand that water can be both cold and hot.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about water
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A kola nut is small, but it is more important that it goes round to each person and not that it fills the stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
It's useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to swim in the direction it's flowing.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things
When a lion runs and looks back, its not that he is afraid, rather he is trying to see the distance he has covered.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about force, police, law, man
If you have escaped the jaws of the crocodile while bathing in the river, you will surely meet a leopard on the way.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you dig a hole to bury a person but instead of burying that person you may be the one to be buried in this place.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment
The leopard that covers its black spots with hamaton dust solution will truly be exposed when the rain season comes.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about season, magic, rain
If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?
Proverbs and old sayings West African about change, contentment
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest, work
When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest, contentment, life
No matter how far you have walked in the wrong direction certainly you have to turn back and take the right direction.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad, rightness, contentment
Don't laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes we're all naked for our spirits belong to them.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, eyes
If you see an animal running in the early morning know that it is running away from something more scarily than the due.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
A weapon that you don't have in your hand will not kill a snake. Looking for something can get in the way of finding it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are worried than the troublesome member.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about family, contentment
A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, sun, children, mother
The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you stoop to see your neighbour's anus, then your own anus is wide open for others to see, even more easily and clearly.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fidelity, spirit, earth, lie
