When a yam doesn't grow well, we don't blame it; it is because of the soil.
Proverbs and old sayings
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If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
Proverbs and old sayings about sky, people
A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year.
Proverbs and old sayings
If they are uttering insults and don't mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings about insults, contentment
The rabbit has a saying which goes: 'if you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks. '
Proverbs and old sayings about impossible, contentment
No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says 'you mouth stinks. '
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa.
Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, poverty, man
Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.
Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, nothing, contentment
Plenty is like the mist.
Proverbs and old sayings
What is seen is seen by all.
Proverbs and old sayings
Famine hides under the granary.
Proverbs and old sayings
You can't keep a bull in the Kraal.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
We are people because of other people.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
To kiss the child is to kiss the mother.
Proverbs and old sayings about kiss, children, mother
The cripple is fair in its mother's eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, mother
The quick one may not win; the enduring one will.
Proverbs and old sayings
To give away is to make provision for the future.
Proverbs and old sayings about future
The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
Eating without sharing is like swearing with your mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings
Eyes can see widely: They can cross a river in full flood.
Proverbs and old sayings about eyes
