Proverbs and old sayings West African about Contentment, page 11

456 proverbs and old sayings west african about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You can share the same bed but you can't share the same dream.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Do not laugh at the fallen; you may find slippery roads ahead.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

When you give a friend a goat, you have to let go of the leash.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

With a little seed of imagination you can grow a field of hope.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

As long as I make you to be inferior, I render myself inferior.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Never dump your old pot just because you have bought a new one.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you want people to understand you, you speak their language.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you want to lean on a tree, first make sure it can hold you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Living near a lake doesn't mean you eat fish whenever you need.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment