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Snake at your feet - a stick at your hand!

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Without fingers, the hand would be a spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Pregnancy could not be covered with the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Nothing wipes your tears away but your own hand.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about tears, nothing

The hand that tied the lion knows best how to untie it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Though it is the hand that gives, the man must be thanked.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

Practice with the left hand while the right is still there.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness

The hand assists the foot, but the foot cannot do the same.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The tortoise said it wants to box, but its hand is too short.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body

A child's hand is not burned by hot yam which is placed into his palm by his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother

Shall we kill a snake and carry it in our hand when we have a bag for putting long things in?

Proverbs and old sayings West African about things

When one hand is injured the other nurses it, when both hands are injured they nurse each other.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

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

When a Greek shakes your hand, count your fingers after.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian

One hand can't applaud

Proverbs and old sayings Algerian

The hand which gives is better than the one which receives

Proverbs and old sayings Algerian

Art is the right hand of nature.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about art, magic, nature, rightness, americans