Proverbs and old sayings West African about Contentment, page 15

456 proverbs and old sayings west african about contentment

If you cry and receive someone to help you cry more then you cry more.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don't stop.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

A good reputation is something you must pay for, but you can never buy.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You don't give someone a goat for a gift and still hold on to the rope.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You don't have to lie down at the spot where your enemy has thrown you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You don't have to tell the deaf that there is a stampede in the market.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Thorns themselves will not harm you -- you hurt yourself on the thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you want to grow a long tooth you must have enough lips to cover it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Search for a friend with no faults and you will remain with no friends.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Being a swimmer and spending time in the water does not make you a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in lies, you can't undo it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

He who talks to you while travelling at night is thanked in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

When you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

He who asks you to converse ends up telling others that you're shouting.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

You cannot blindfold a man and expect him to ferry you across the river.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment