Sometimes the spirits speaks for you and sometimes the spirits makes you speak.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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If you want to smear somebody's face with mud, be prepared to dirty your hands.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you see wrongdoing or evil and say nothing against it, you become its victim.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you're not at the war front its easy to assume we didn't put up a good fight.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
There is no way you can pour water into a basket and expect the water to remain.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you choose to lie down with dogs, you must be prepared to wake up with fleas.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
You can beat a fool half to death but you can't beat the foolishness out of him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Open your ears to the ancestors and you will understand the language of spirits.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you want to clean the land secretly, the noise of the axe will give you away.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it smiles.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Even if you close your eyes while looking in the mirror the image remains yours.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
You can outrun what is running after you, but not what is running inside of you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
At a hunting expedition you cannot apportion the meat before you kill the animal.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
The person you know during daytime should also be recognisable during night time.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
When your neighbour is wrong you point a finger, but when you are wrong you hide.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
You shouldn't leave your own fire ablaze to go and put out your neighbour's fire.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you hate your ancestors then assume your dead than you will love the hereafter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
As the dog said, 'If I fall down for you and you fall down for me, it is playing. '
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
