Proverbs and old sayings, page 209

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The good mother knows what her children will eat.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, mother, good, good luck

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom, money

You do not need a big stick to break a cock's head.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, heads, contentment

You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

There is nothing wrong with learning from hindsight.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad, nothing

If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it.

Proverbs and old sayings

When a shield wears out, the framework still remains.

Proverbs and old sayings

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise's back in vain.

Proverbs and old sayings

Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.

Proverbs and old sayings

The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence

The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies.

Proverbs and old sayings

The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

The gun catridge-belt of Akowua has never been known to lack bullets.

Proverbs and old sayings

Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree.

Proverbs and old sayings

Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage, contentment

When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them.

Proverbs and old sayings

A child who is to be successful is not to be reared exclusively on a bed of down.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings about sky, home