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A man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foofoo is no longer searching for soup.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about searching, man

If you pay homage to the man on top, others will pay homage to you when it's your turn to be on top.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment, man

No matter how often a man quarrels with his wife he doesn't do so during the hours lending to bedtime.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man

A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about reason, man

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about life, man

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

He is a wise man who has no worries about the things he doesn't have but he rejoices for those things that he has.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about things, man

There are three things that a man must know to survive in this world: what is too much for him, what is too little, and what is just right.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, world, things, man

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, people, man

There was anguish before there was man.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about man

The man who has eaten enough will never believe a hungry one.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about faith, man

When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about man

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans, man, contentment

In the boy see the man.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man

A man can die just once.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about death, americans, man

A dead man feels no cold.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man

Adversity flatters no man.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man

A man's dreams are his own.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about dream, americans, man

A poor man is always behind.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man

Praise makes a bad man worse.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about praise, bad luck, bad, americans, man