Proverbs and old sayings West African, page 70

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You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Even though the elephant is huge enough it cannot carry a big tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you're filled with pride then you will not have room for wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about proudness, wisdom

Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about word

If there were no elephants in the jungle, the buffalo would be big.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Don't count the many times a man falls but those times he rises up.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about common sense, sense

The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food, man

A talkative person is a traveller when he is tired, he keeps quiet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about quiet, people

Never lose heart because whatever is hot must in the end turn cold.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, heart

A drunkard is like a whisky bottle only neck and belly but no head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

A river doesn't run straight because there was nobody to advise it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, man

If you want to eat a toad, you should look for a fat and juicy one.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Even if you remain an island you must still be friendly to the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A man who after his dying speech doesn't die, bears the same guilt.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about guilt, death, man

There are three friends in this world: courage, sense, and insight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about courage, common sense, sense, world

The attacks of a wild beast cannot be averted with only bare hands.

Proverbs and old sayings West African