He that fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, heads, nothing
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The ancestors may annoy you but don't make a mistake of annoying them back, they may annoy you forever.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mistake, ancestors
It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
Those who master to climb trees with their teeth are in better position to tell which barks are bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about bitter
When the cockroach decides to make the cock its friend it must be ready to end up in the cock's stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about end
A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine
It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, eyes, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
In a community it's better every person to have a little of something than one person to have everything.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
Don't make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or else it will strip you naked.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about life, man
A cock says it's because of the situation it is faced with that it has its knees in the opposite direction.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The person who is coming from the bowels of the earth doesn't despise even the smallest amount of sunshine.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, people
The antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his child becomes the market buffoon.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, laughter, children
Despise not a snail for its slow and struggling movement; it has a destination and with time it shall arrive.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time
The madman, who throws a stone into a crowded market, forgets that his own mother could be hit by his madness.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about stores, mother
If your husband has many wives, the only sure way for him into you're the bedroom is through a delicious meal.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about husband
He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not complain when lizards start visiting him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house
The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about praise
