Only a fool believes that the clouds obscure the splendour of the moon. It has shined behind them for eternity.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about eternity, moon
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Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about perfume, happiness, fall
A family is like a thick forest, often from outside its dense, when your inside each tree has its own position.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about family
If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
A feather is just a delicate thing when removed from a bird because it carries the bird everywhere in the world.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things, world
The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about insects, fall, work
Monkeys don't advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just remind them of the distance to the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about life, man, day
He is a wise man who has no worries about the things he doesn't have but he rejoices for those things that he has.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things, man
Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about celebrity, stars, moon, beauty, sky, sun
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
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
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
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
