The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about face
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No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The words of the elders do not lock all the doors, they leave the right door open.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, word
Don't make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or else it will strip you naked.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about autumn, americans
Any visitor to the country who drinks from the River Bengo will never want to leave.
Proverbs and old sayings Angolan about country
The one who does not make you happy when he arrives makes you happy when he leaves.
Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about happiness, contentment
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about children, life
You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time, contentment
The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about fall
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about dignity, proudness, man
A cow gave birth to a fire: she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about children, fire, fire brigade
The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at the approach of winter. )
Proverbs and old sayings French
A guest should not cause his host's demise. When the guest is ready to leave, his host should not have given him a hunch-back.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Whether it was the tenant who seduced the landlord's wife, or the landlord who seduced the tenant's wife, it is the tenant who would leave the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about tenants, wife, home, house
When the money starts to glitter and clink, even a Mullah will leave the mosque.
Proverbs and old sayings about money
If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment
Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about advice, night, day
You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning.
Proverbs and old sayings Malian about contentment
A bag that says it will not take more, and a traditional doctor who says he would not leave anything behind are both sure to suffer.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about suffering
