Proverbs and old sayings West African, page 46

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If the needle doesn't pass, the thread doesn't follow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A friend who fawns is better than an enemy who smiles.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies

Him with a bushy field cannot harvest edibles from it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The spirits are the strength and counsel to the living.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moral

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight

If you aren't in your own home, you dance while seated.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, home

There is no physician who can cure the disease of love.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love

It's the big birds that teach the young ones to flight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about flight

A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about clothes, sleep, children, woman

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth

A woman's stomach does not grow if she is not pregnant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about quiet, heart, water, man

He who tries to shake a tree stump shakes only himself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Running water can never jump over a hole in the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about water

If you're holding someone you can drop him and move on.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

That you eat in the morning passes you through the day.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about day

Well-timed silence is the most commanding __expression.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about silence

Even a healer's lies are a big relief to a sick person.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man