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A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine

When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You don't have to climb the palm wine tree to drink palm wine.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wine, drinking

Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about children

It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about wine, bad luck, bad

When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about drinking, wine, people

A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf basket, still both are full of holes.

Proverbs and old sayings Philippine about salary

Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings

A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

An only palm-fruit doesn't get lost in the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

There are no short cuts to the top of a palm tree.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about olderness, age, wine, man, old

The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, wine, people

Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about spirit

Man is like a palm on the beach; moving with the wind of life.

Proverbs and old sayings about life, man

If nothing touches the palm-leaves they do not rustle.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

One palm makes no applause.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about fall