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Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, death, people, old, olderness

An elephant grows and becomes an adult, even if people do not like it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

A wise person must know the language, sayings, and tales of his society.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about society, fairy tales, language, people

People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about circumstances, change, people

Like a person, even the moon grows and vanishes in a transitional process.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon, people

The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.

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

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

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

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about suffering, 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 death, people, contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, time

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about night, people, time, contentment

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

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, secret, time, contentment

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