A man has to hold his mouth open a long time before a roasted partridge flies into it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, man
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If someone is waiting for something important they wouldn't die until they achieve it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about death
What makes up an anthill is the effort and order of determined and organised termites.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about order
If you keep stirring at a girl you cannot have you will never see a girl you can have.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
They laugh at you when your going but when you came back with a load they're a shamed.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; the snake says: climb a tree without arms.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
When you lose on the drum-beating if the gods, you lose on the rhythm and pace of life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about life
He who doesn't clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about food
The sun will shine on those who are standing before it shines on those who are sitting.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun
What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart reaches the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about heart
When a man cheats on you once, shame on him, when he cheats on you twice, shame on you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about shame, man
Until Lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fairy tales, hunters
Those who think there too big to do little things are perhaps to small to do big things.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things
You may say the cassava in your mouth is bitter, but it is only looking at the next one.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bitter
What is past is gone, what is hoped for is absent, for you is the hour in which you are.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about absent, past
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about woman, man
Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine is supposed to be your food.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about medicine, food
Don't respond to a mosquito bit with a stone because you will miss it and hunt yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The fool sucks wisdom, as he porter sups, And cobblers grow fine speakers in their cups.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wisdom
When the hunter returns and is holding mushrooms, don't ask him about how his hunt went.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunters
