There are no short cuts to the top of a palm tree.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
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When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Who does not love to dance, does not love to sing.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about love, dance
You can hide wine in a gourd but not in the belly.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine
The mouth does not know limitations of its master.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about limits
Where water is the boss, there must the land obey.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads, water
In the great river there are large and small fish.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing
For the sake of the rose the thorn is watered too.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
To cut off the head is no remedy for the headache.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads
When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A tree climber begins from the bottom not the top.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Where many are gathered, there is much to be said.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Him with is own knowledge know how to eat from it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about knowledge
Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes, mother
The dead are not seen in the company of the living.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about companies
No matter how hot your anger may be it cannot cook.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about kitchen, anger
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about ambition, peace, sleep, man
When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep, mother
