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A sick way between two people can only be cared for if the two of them die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death, people

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about action, people

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad, people

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun, people, old, olderness

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about money, 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

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sadness, drinking, 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 sun, 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 wealth, people, man

The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, wine, people

It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house, people

If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, eyes, bad luck, contentment, bad, good, good luck

You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment

Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about numbers, smile, people, judges, beauty, 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 vision, people, contentment

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, people, man

If horses neigh to one another, they become acquainted, if people talk to one another, they become acquainted.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe

Proverbs and old sayings about faith, people, americans

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux

Proverbs and old sayings about history, people, americans

Other people's burdens killed the ass.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about people, americans