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Plantain ripe, can't green again.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about fasting

When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan

Early ripe, early rotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

They call their aunt only when her cucumbers are ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings

Death does not take the old but the ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about death, old, olderness

Don't pluck the apple while it is green; when it is ripe it will fall of itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fall

Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ye hae a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

When the pear is ripe it falls by itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings

The patient eat ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings

A patient man will eat ripe fruits.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Get overripe before partly ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

He is ripe inside, like a water-melon.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about water

If the banana pest doesn't die it will always reach at the ripe banana.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death

Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about conversation, word

When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

A person who underneath the tall palm tree is best positioned to tell on which side the ripe head is.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about heads, people

Rice tastes good when properly cooked, and talking is good when the opportunity is ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings about talking, chance, good, good luck