If you dig a hole to bury a person but instead of burying that person you may be the one to be buried in this place.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
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If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
No matter how far you have walked in the wrong direction certainly you have to turn back and take the right direction.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you see an animal running in the early morning know that it is running away from something more scarily than the due.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
A weapon that you don't have in your hand will not kill a snake. Looking for something can get in the way of finding it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are worried than the troublesome member.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you stoop to see your neighbour's anus, then your own anus is wide open for others to see, even more easily and clearly.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Be careful of the words you say each day, make sure each is nice and sweet, because may be in the days ahead, there will be some you'll have to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you can't distinguish how to whistle a festival alarm from a warning alarm, then better not alarm and let s/he who knows the difference to do the alarming.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the reins and using your whip.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
When you're a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what gods should be appeased.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of yours; it is a good head.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Negotiate with your enemy whilst you are a strong and formidable force, and he will always fear and respect you, but negotiate at the brink of defeat, and he will trample you down.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Speak softly and always carry a big stick; you will go far.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
