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If you kill time, you'll bury opportunities.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about chance, time, contentment

You cannot be a mouse and bat at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, contentment

No chicken will fall into the fire a second time.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, fire, fire brigade, time

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, time, contentment

A corpse doesn't have time to cover its pubic region.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time

What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about hunger, time, man

The mouth does not forget what it tasted only one time.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about army, time

Do something at its right time, and peace will accompany it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about peace, rightness, time

Life is your ability to breath out every time you breathe in.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ability, life, time, contentment

Every time an old man dies it is as if a library has burnt down.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, man, old, olderness

A bachelor should always spend minimum time with a friend's wife.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, time

He who chews two bones at the same time will surely bite his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time

Give a stammerer enough time and he will pronounce his father's name.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about name, time

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about games, time

Being a swimmer and spending time in the water does not make you a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, fishing, time, water, contentment

Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to break.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about kitchen, time, day

If you give a handshake to the leopard, next time he will come for an embrace.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, contentment

By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, secret, time, contentment

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