Proverbs and old sayings West African, page 61

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If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

In good times friends know you and in bad times you know them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Never let a friend lie in your sheep farm he might get hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about lie

You don't have to climb the palm wine tree to drink palm wine.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine, drinking

If you have patience you can take out the holes of an anthill.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about patience

Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about force, police, love

The gourd that never leaves the boozing centre attains cracks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Remember the wisdom of your ancestors in order to become wise.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, order, wisdom

If you ignore your own relatives you will serve the outsiders.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Teenagers act like babies if they are not treated like adults.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You can't tell the colour of somebody's cloth from his shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about shadow

To love a king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, love, bad

Shame to the house where the hen crows and the cock is silent.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about shame, home, house

It costs you your good spirit to steal than buying or seeking.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about spirit, good, good luck

The greatness of man's male organ don't call it an hydro cell.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about greatness, man

An elder uses old eyes to see and so the young use young eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes, use, old, olderness

The grindstones can neither be used as a stool nor a headrest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

She who gives birth to triplets cannot ask for a third breast.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall

A man who does no hard work will never know the value of rest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about value, rest, work, man