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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, food, bad luck, bad, contentment

When the drummers change their beats the dancers must also change their Steps.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

The canary that dances along the bush path must have its drummer in the nearby bush.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you don't want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don't attend the monkey dance.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about dance, contentment

A fly that dances carelessly in front of a spider's web, risks the wrath of the spider's teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You need more than dancing shoes to be a dancer.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about need, americans, contentment

Had the monkey seen its ass, it wouldn't have danced.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hope

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about music

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dance, contentment

A full belly dances better than a fine coat.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is no child's play when an old woman dances.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, woman, old, olderness

You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about judges, dance, contentment

The devil dances in empty pockets.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

He dances well to whom fortune pipes.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth

The devil dances nowhere as much as between a couple.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about couple, devil

A fool's heart dances on his lips.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart

Not every one that dances is glad.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In the fiddler's house every one is a dancer.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house