If you're to jump a swamp, you need to make one long hurdle.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, contentment
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No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about night
He that dines with the gods must do so with a very long spoon.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about gods
As long as I make you to be inferior, I render myself inferior.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about change
It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don't stop.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about work, man
If you want to grow a long tooth you must have enough lips to cover it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about life
A girl's patience can only be recognised by how long she keeps her virginity.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about patience
Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people
No matter how long a stick may stay in a river, it will never change into fish.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about change, fishing
No matter how long a fallen tree stays in the river it can never be a crocodile.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
A man has to hold his mouth open a long time before a roasted partridge flies into it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, man
However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about season
No matter how long and winding the road might be, it will always lead you to your destination.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
If you want to know how long a man's tongue is, let him use his mouth to lick honey from a plate.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about use, man, contentment
If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about real estate, children, home, house
