Proverbs and old sayings West African about People, page 4

98 proverbs and old sayings west african about people

The house roof fights the rain, but the person who is sheltered ignores it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

What makes a fool excited now a wise person had heard before and isn't excited.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

If you hide a sick person, your lamentation alarm will only announce his death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

The always-hurrying person eats goat, but the one who takes his time eats beef.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people who put them into action are priceless.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

The person you know during daytime should also be recognisable during night time.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Old people's speech is not to be dishonored -- after all, they saw the sun first.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A leader is he who tells his people what they must hear, not what they want to hear.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A person who is always looking at the sky will never discover anything on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A person who wants to see is people progress must first set to look into their tradition.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

The sun shines on those who are standing before it shines on the people kneeling under them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people