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You talk sweet like the bulbul bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

A bird only flies as high as his wings take him.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

It is easier to catch a bird at night than day.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about trap, night, day

By coming and going, a bird constructs its nest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A bird with fire on its tail burns its own nest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

If a bird bills the rock then it trusts its beck.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bills, rocks

It is only a mad dog that barks at a flying bird.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who pursues a hatched bird teaches it how to fly.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A bird that prays for rain will find its self soaked.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about self-control, rain

It s the discontented fish that envies the solely bird.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing

The best way to catch a bird is not by scaring it away.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about trap

The bird is up in the sky but its eyes are on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky, eyes

No one knows if a bird in flight has an egg in its stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about flight

You can't spread a net to catch a bird that is watching you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about trap, contentment

If a bird does not recognise a tree, it will not rest on it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest

The bird, which flaps its wings too much, will drop its feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Though the sky belongs to the bird it can't fly when it's raining.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky

Don't admire the flying bird before you know the pain of flapping.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about pain, contentment

The corpse of a bird does not decompose in flight, but on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about flight