tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57327728277282525012024-03-05T21:55:35.441-05:00World of ProverbsEnjoy the largest collection of real proverbs in the world: A must-have reference tool for writers, teachers and students. All listings are cross-verified by a team of experts to be authentic, accurate, and up-to-date.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-80929495161271345162020-02-01T12:34:00.000-05:002020-02-01T12:34:04.256-05:00Maori of New Zealand (16)
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Food, the produce of your own labor, you may eat without stint. </p>
The old home stands, but its owners disappear. </p>
Food given by another person is only a throat tickler </br> but food gained by the labor of one's own hand </br> is the food which satisfies. </p>
The fame of a warrior is precarious, while that </br> of a man strong to cultivate food is lasting. </p>
The pattern of the reed lining of the house </br> may be followed by the eye, </br> but not the pattern or figuring of the heart. </p>
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Promptness carries the day. </p>
Fools do foolish things. </p>
Prosperity is the fruit of industry, </br>while idleness begets poverty. </p>
The flounder does not return to the place </br>he left when disturbed. </p>
The bird which has escaped from</br>the snare it is vain to follow. </p>
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The corner of the house may be explored </br> and seen, but not the corner of the heart. </p>
The passing clouds can be seen, </br> but passing thoughts cannot be seen. </p>
Woman and land are the causes which destroy man. </p>
Rich food is not long stared at; </br> but a good looking person is attractive. </p>
Old promises are left behind. </p>
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In the planting season visitors come singly; </br>in harvest time in crowds. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-7935601895280205122020-01-01T12:31:00.000-05:002020-01-01T12:31:04.393-05:00Mexican Proverbs (82)
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Show not your teeth when you are unable to bite. </p>
Once a traitor, always a traitor. </p>
No fly dares to get near a boiling kettle. </p>
When the midwife is incompetent she blames the child for it. </p>
No ass is lazy when tempted or teased by the manager. </p>
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Love, poverty, and care cannot be hidden. </p>
Duty is to be before devotion. </p>
The heir's tears are but a mask to disguise his joy. </p>
Horses obey to the rein; women submit to the spur. </p>
Faced by two goads no bull is brave. </p>
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Old cats show great fondness for little, tender mice. </p>
Evil condoned is evil consented. </p>
If envy were leprosy, how many lepers in the world would be. </p>
We see faces, we do not see hearts. </p>
Tell me what you are eager to buy </br>and I will tell you what you are. </p>
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A dog that stands still will never run across a bone. </p>
A withered flower and a faith lost never bloom to live again. </p>
Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it. </p>
Don't let yourself be operated upon </br> by a doctor with a shaking hand. </p>
Deeds, not words, are the true language of love. </p>
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The gardener's footsteps do not spoil the garden. </p>
The sun is the poor man's blanket. </p>
When a friar begs in the name of God </br> he does so for himself too. </p>
Even the tiniest hair will cast a shadow upon the ground. </p>
When gray hairs begin to appear,</br> the lust for life begins to disappear. </p>
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Mistrust your best friend as if he were your worst enemy. </p>
Trust not a dog's limp or women's tears. </p>
Whoever is an ox of his own choice finds </br> pleasure in the licking of his yoke. </p>
Girls are wont to say no with their lips, </br>but with their eyes they say yes. </p>
Grinding and grinding wears out </br>the hardest of grindstones. </p>
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True friendship is like a single soul </br>split in two to fill two bodies. </p>
God speaks for the man who holds his peace. </p>
The bird seeks the tree, not the tree the bird. </p>
A pair of women's breasts has more </br> pulling power than a pair of oxen. </p>
Not even God can undo a blow received. </p>
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Bullets are shot by men and God deals them out. </p>
One's face is the mirror of one's soul. </p>
Fear never uses a donkey to ride away. </p>
Truth may suffer to death, but it never dies. </p>
Since excuses were invented, no one is ever in the wrong. </p>
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No fate is worse than a life without love. </p>
Hope is the last thing to die. </p>
The best way to put an end to the </br> bugs is to set fire to the bed. </p>
He who reaches for the stars must </br> be willing to pay the cost. </p>
A full stomach gladdens the heart </p>
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Once on the down grade, even rocks have wheels. </p>
One string is good enough to a good musician. </p>
No studies are necessary to become a fool. </p>
The servant of the church eats out of the church's hand. </p>
A good deed is the best prayer. </p>
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Do not refuse the body what it asks for. </p>
Life pends from a thread. </p>
Love and brandy have soothing aftereffects both. </p>
The roof of an old hut is always full of leaks. </p>
Women and cats are both animals ungrateful. </p>
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Raise a wall of mortar and stone between </br> the holy man and the saintly woman. </p>
Time heals and yet it kills. </p>
A reformed woman of the streets is the best of women. </p>
No endeavor is worse than that which is not attempted. </p>
The evil done in the gloom of night will </br> appear disclosed in the light of day. </p>
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Better porridge in peace than chocolate in alarm. </p>
Once on the horse one must be able to endure the ride. </p>
Nothing better than honey to catch flies. </p>
Potters never fail to praise their pots, </br> the more so when they are cracked. </p>
You cannot worship a saint that is unknown. </p>
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Kisses are first, and cusses come later. </p>
No heart is sadder than a penniless pocket. </p>
A lasting leisurely pace goes farther than a tiring trot. </p>
Never has a begloved cat caught a mouse. </p>
Nobody carries corn to a worn out mill to be milled. </p>
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It isn't quite the same thing to comment on </br> the bull ring and to be in the bull ring. </p>
Who suffers much is likely to find comfort in very little. </p>
Cheapness costs dearly. </p>
Cleanliness is the luxury of the poor. </p>
Courtesy is compatible with bravery. </p>
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Who promises much is most likely to fulfill very little. </p>
You are sure to find another cross if </br> you flee the one you bear. </p>
A corpse and an uninvited guest stink after a couple of days. </p>
No highway is safer than the one just robbed. </p>
It is not enough for people to know how to ride; </br> they must know how to fall. </p>
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Trust not a dog’s limp or women’s tears. </p>
A dog that stands still will never run across a bone. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-17714699520951055662019-12-09T12:30:00.000-05:002019-12-09T12:30:03.495-05:00Lithuanian Proverbs (14)
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There are many crosses upon a </br>cemetery, but no cares. </p>
The hungry wolf goes for food even into the village. </p>
Listen much and speak little. </p>
One day teaches the other. </p>
Fear and love do not walk together. </p>
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With eyes you will not win love. </p>
Other trees, other woodcutters. </p>
There is justice in the world, but it is blind. </p>
A common horse is always lean. </p>
To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey. </p>
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To a drunkard even a drop is dear. </p>
Hunger increases the understanding. </p>
There is in the world one truth, </br>but it seems as if there were a hundred. </p>
Death will come uninvited. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-80013268683099992252018-11-24T12:30:00.000-05:002018-12-23T11:26:11.118-05:00Anaang Proverbs (54)
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Time cannot obliterate the memory of a village case.</p>
Stones are cheap; the problem is weight.</p>
Do not play with a snake offspring as if it could never bite.</p>
Two cocks do not crow from the same roof.</p>
If you play with a dog, do not complain when it tears your clothes.</p>
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A child who refuses the mother's advice does not live long.</p>
If you play with a dog, do not complain when it tears your clothes.</p>
The story of former wealth does not satisfy man.</p>
The tortoise complains of rain whereas it has only wetted its feet.</p>
A lender does not hate part payment.</p>
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A word shoots up like the blade of grass.</p>
When a man has no one to play with he plays with his enemy.</p>
When you hold the ground you cannot fall.</p>
In a true heart, there is no fear.</p>
If the cockroach refuses to stay in its hole,</br> the chicken refuses to stay hungry.</p>
A soup that tastes good by licking must taste better by eating.</p>
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When a baby grows, the crying changes.</p>
A wandering child cannot eat his mother's food when it is hot.</p>
Praise has killed the antelope.</p>
A chicken has no bad luck in the morning.</p>
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A chicken that gets a sprained ankle is abandoned by its own mother.</p>
A word shoots up like the blade of grass.</p>
When bitterness preceeds sweetness, the sweetness becomes sweeter.</p>
While a bush fowl is being roasted, a chicken considers its own fate.</p>
When a man has no one to play with he plays with his enemy.</p>
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A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot cut wood.</p>
Infancy teeth are not for chewing nuts.</p>
What has escaped from the leopard, still remains for the leopard.</p>
A mother refuses to go far lest her baby cries.</p>
Pepper has a beautiful face with an ugly temper.</p>
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A river less vast than an ocean gets a bridge.</p>
If you speak with a cunning mouth, I listen with a cunning ear.</p>
A mother that has lost many children by death,</br> hates the idea of her child taking a nap.</p>
A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep.</p>
After a fish has matured, it ventures into the deep.</p>
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A rat that gnaws pepper is desperate for food.</p>
A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep.</p>
When a leopard limps, a hare dares to demand for payment of a debt.</p>
When blood appears, it is apt to run.</p>
Drop by drop rains fills a pot.</p>
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There is no discrimination in the forest of the dead.</p>
An animal that has just escaped from a trap fears a bent stick.</p>
Unity is strength, separation weakness.</p>
Generosity is wealth.</p>
A debtor's wife speaks the voice of her husband.</p>
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A thorn does not pierce a rat.</p>
When you are rich, relation exists; if you are poor, relations desist.</p>
A man who puts his hand into the bee's hive gets stung by the bees.</p>
Medicine does not depend on the incantations of the sorcerer.</p>
A man who lives in two homes cannot catch a thief.</p>❖</p>
While a dead tree is expected to collapse,</br> a live one unexpectedly snaps.</p>
A lover is unmindful of any charcoal on the body.</p>❖</p><blockquote><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
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<blockquote><i>The Bemba language, ChiBemba, is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia.
The Lamba language is closely related and some people consider it a dialect of Bemba.</i></blockquote>
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The lion which has come to the end of its means is forced to eat grass. </p>
A big tree does not fall like a little child. </p>
He who paddles two canoes, sinks. </p>
Treat the days well and they will treat you well. </p>
The successor of the leopard succeeds also the spots. </p>
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Where the water recedes, there is a crocodile. </p>
Do not insult a woman before she has undressed. </p>
The little promise you promised is not forgotten. </p>
What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger. </p>
The honey is not forgotten but the axe is. </p>
❖</p>
Spilled water is not picked up again. </p>
At the ford, they call someone who knows about it. </p>
The travelers are the people who bring news about the spoors of lions. </p>
The child of a beggar eats when his mother has begged successfully. </p>
Sitting a lot ends by making holes in clothes. </p>
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Adultery is like dung; one goes far to do it. </p>
He who begins early helps himself a lot. </p>
Brains of one person do not know what is going on </br> in the back of your neck. </p>
What fills the small basket does not fill the large one. </p>
A stolen orange is better tasting than your own. </p>
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The work of two is not meant to be done by one alone. </p>
We do not know the cock in the egg. </p>
Two people make two brains and one person only one. </p>
He who travels with a dog may lie, </br> but not one who travels with people. </p>
A bow which is stretched to the limit breaks. </p>
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Abuse of hospitality breaks the bridge. </p>
He who is slandered is great. </p>
A new whistle peels off the lip. </p>
The monkey who is alone does not amuse himself in front of many. </p>
Make haste before the road gets slippery. </p>
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He who is with fever is not shown to the fire. </p>
The work meant to be performed by two </br> cannot be done by one alone. </p>
What makes the road long is laziness to go. </p>
Where a tall man puts up a thing, </br> a short one cannot get it down. </p>
The mouth is the helper and can redeem. </p>
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The stranger who does not know where the spring is </br> will draw water in a dirty pool. </p>
The child of a snake is also a snake. </p>
The strength of one person only does not go far. </p>
A lie comes back sooner or later. </p>
He who does not listen does not sit at the council. </p>
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An old pontoon often capsizes. </p>
The day you are unlucky, even the cold food burns. </p>
Where there is meat, the vultures congregate. </p>
The best medicine against troubles is to keep quiet. </p>
Where there is greatness, it shows itself. </p>
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A garden is like a babe; it does not grow fast. </p>
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. </p>
The lion which is alone cannot see his own mistakes. </p>
Hunger means cultivating not begging. </p>
Bad luck rots and in the end one rejoices. </p>
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A poor man has a large stomach, not a large mouth. </p>
The poor man does not go on a journey. </p>
Where God cooks, no smoke rises. </p>
Goods can be acquired, not children.</p>
God is the blacksmith who does not forge for only one. </p>
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The little ant at its hole is full of courage. </p>
A sick person does not hide his buttocks. </p>
Wealth is not picked up like lice. </p>
The person going home is not stopped by the dusk. </p>
The harshness of the mouth does not govern a house. </p>
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Fingers which catch dirty things can be washed. </p>
The person who beats the drum must also know the song. </p>
A child is like an axe; even if it hurts you, </br> you still carry it on your shoulder. </p>
One rat alone can bring trouble to many. </p>
A riddle made by God is not solved. </p>
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The child who has never had indigestion eats and eats. </p>
What women say is nonsense; but he who does not listen in is a fool. </p>
The poor man does not go on a journey. </p>
A sick person does not hide his buttocks. </p>
The person going home is not stopped by the dusk. </p>
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The person who beats the drum must also know the song. </p>
To threaten an elephant you must carry a spear. </p>
A piece of cloth is not new for long; it is old for long. </p>
The fire which is screened by elders is not dangerous. </p>
A male dog does not get food for his companion. </p>
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A dog does not die at the hand of its owner. </p>
He who travels with a dog may lie, but not one who travels with people. </p>
Many are the eyes of the person whose spouse commits adultery. </p>
The child of a generous person does not die of hunger. </p>
At your mother's death another one will not come. </p>
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The stranger who is not generous is not generous in his own land. </p>
Insults do not cause a sore. </p>
He who was busy with two things drowned. </p>
The trees which are growing are tomorrow's forest. </p>
The hunger of your friend does not hinder sleep. </p>
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The trees which are pointed out by the axe do not cut themselves down. </p>
Trees which are near to one another do not fall to scratch one another. </p>
It is the little thing you hold that will hit the dog. </p>
Don't provoke your in-laws before sleeping with your wife-to-be. </p>
It is the mother hippopotamus which shows the little one how to dive. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-56871730956345588252018-11-23T21:05:00.000-05:002019-01-16T00:56:03.019-05:00Cameroonian Proverbs (001-050)
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A small axe is not sufficient to cut down a large tree.</p>
A wrong step by the leader is a warning for those following.</p>
A warthog eating its fill does not delight a pig.</p>
A greedy man always has his eye on his wife’s pot.</p>
A debt is not a loss once one knows the debtor.</p>
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A mother is like a kernel, crushed by problems </br> but strong enough to overcome them.</p>
A fig tree cannot walk, but its roots go very far.</p>
A long beard doesn ot prevent a house going to bed hungry. </p>
A knife does not recognise its owner.</p>
A hen drinks water while it raises its head upward.</p>
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A friend in need is a friend in deed.</p>
A genius is he who is first to be right.</p>
A lazy person talks for so long, a determinant does.</p>
A baby cannot be heard crying in his mother's womb.</p>
A chattering bird builds no nest. </p>
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A goat never grazes in the same place.</p>
A fish is the last to acknowledge the existence of water.</p>
A goat does not always graze in the same place.</p>
A puppy must not confront a large animal.</p>
A real family eats the same cornmeal.</p>
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A stupid cow leads her calf near the road.</p>
A wife is the wealth.</p>
A rooster does not sing on two roofs.</p>
Beating drums is fun, but also tiring.</p>
Beauty is an empty calabash.</p>
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Before killing the chicken carefully observe </br> the character of your guest.</p>
Between imitation and envy, imitation is better.</p>
Brothers who get along will always defeat the enemy.</p>
Do not put your head in front of your words.</p>
Do not grab your heel until the ant has bitten you.</p>
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Do not throw away the oars before the boat reaches the shore.</p>
Don’t ask for Glasgow when you have already reached London.</p>
During a storm you seek shelter under a tree and not the clouds.</p>
Eggs and metal do not go in the same basket.</p>
Even your dog knows the homes of your friends.</p>
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Even without drumbeats, banana leaves dance.</p>
Even if thin, the elephant remains the king of the forest.</p>
Even if a baby seems unpleasant to look at, </br> his mother never refuses him.</p>
Every hill is a burial site.</p>
Every hill has its leopard.</p>
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God does not ask to withstand more than is possible.</p>
Happiness can grow from only a little contentment.</p>
I pointed out to you the stars and the moon,</br> and all you saw was the tip of my finger.</p>
If you do not listen to good advice, you will be embarrassed in public.</p>
If your corn field is far from your home, the birds will eat your corn.</p>
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If the needle doesn’t pass, the thread doesn't follow.</p>
If you carry the egg basket do not dance.</p>
If a bird does not recognise a tree, it will not rest on it.</p>
If you don't agree with the majority, you are a wizard.</p>
If familiarity were useful, water wouldn’t cook fish. </p>
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If a father does not cultivate, the son does not inherit land.</p>
If you get a fine harvest of maize don’t break </br> your local brotherhood and sisterhood.</p>
In the great river there are large and small fish.</p>
It is only a male elephant that can save another one from a pit.</p>
It is easier to transport a termite hill than have authority in a village.</p>
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Know the price of a Kwanga while dad and mom are still alive.</p>
Leave alone a dance you are unable to perform.</p>
Like ants, eat little and carry the rest back to your home.</p>
Major problems have solution with the old men.</p>
Marriage is a school.</p>
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No one knows if a bird in flight has an egg in its stomach.</p>
Nobody kills an ignorant person who begs for wisdom.</p>
One will always return to an axe or hoe </br> handle that the woman shows them.</p>
One who enters the forest does not listen </br> to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.</p>
One should not beg with a basket.</p>
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One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn't feel the cold.</p>
Only a mother can understand the suffering of a son.</p>
Patience can cook a stone.</p>
People know each other better on a journey.</p>
Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.</p>
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Pride only goes the length one can spit.</p>
Roots do not know what a leaf has in mind.</p>
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.</p>
Suffering is prior to attaining success or perfection.</p>
Tall stories destroy the family relationship.</p>
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The predator lands on an unknown tree.</p>
The chief's son has to collect firewood when destiny destroys him.</p>
The mouth does not eat if the feet do </br> not walk and the hands work.</p>
The heart is a locket that does not open easily.</p>
The corpse of a bird does not decompose </br> in flight, but on the ground.</p>
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The bird has no nest, but a branch to rest on.</p>
The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; </br> the snake says: I climb a tree without arms.</p>
The eyes of the wise person see through you.</p>
The heart of an adult is like that of an elephant.</p>
The rain falls on only one roof.</p>
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The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but not his heart.</p>
The house that is built well </br> doesn’t move any longer.</p>
The strength of the elderly is in the ears and on the lips.</p>
The sun shines during the day, not at night.</p>
The person who sees the in-laws to be bad is not the engaged woman.</p>
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The tears of the orphan run inside.</p>
The toad that wanted to avoid the rain fell in the water.</p>
The path leads towards loved ones not thorns.</p>
The wind helps those without an axe to cut wood.</p>
The womb is not a boat, it cannot carry as much.</p>
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The parent who corrects his or her child with a rod does not sin.</p>
The pants of today are better than the breeches of tomorrow.</p>
The word of a friend makes you cry;</br> the word of an enemy makes you laugh.</p>
The one who eats has tasted the hardship of labor.</p>
To form a dog is the ruin of education.</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-4407669096707043182018-11-23T21:03:00.000-05:002019-01-16T01:08:45.330-05:00Cameroonian Proverbs (101-123)
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To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.</p>
To punch with a strong fist, you need to turn over your hand.</p>
What is hanging up, cannot be reached sitting down.</p>
When a leaf falls to the ground, the tree gets the blame.</br>The shame goes to the tree.</p>
When you need to make an important decision, </br> never do it alone, choose the right people.</p>
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When you eat an egg do not insult the chicken.</p>
When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.</p>
Where there is no shame, there is no honor. </p>
Where the rooster crows there is a village.</p>
Who eats too much, will then be sick.</p>
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Who built the drum knows best what is inside.</p>
Who does not love to dance, does not love to sing.</p>
Who gets lost in the forest takes it out </br> on who leads him back to the right road.</p>
Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.</p>
You cannot hear a baby cry in the mother's womb.</p>
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You cannot be a mouse and a bat at the same time.</p>
You are invited to join the hunt when your nets are in evidence.</p>
You can see the source of a river, but not that of a clan.</p>
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.</p>
You are not born a leader, you become one.</p>
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You learn how to cut down trees cutting them down.</p>
You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.</p>
Your mother is still your mother, though her legs be small.</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-41112224604239781282018-11-22T23:00:00.000-05:002019-01-10T18:12:27.245-05:00Ashanti Proverbs (92)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRuAipSB6ZaX99HLew6v3YYofvIHp3YVIr2dknKjKR6wFxfLciJ7qNP_tNe9o6spy1BuNApI3eGXzTBMU-57LzA8Ai0Y_-uIOxa_FBlPQkWT5elj99w3afTwCvKD3SlcDh4RVO5twbk0/s1600/zAshanti+Proverbs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRuAipSB6ZaX99HLew6v3YYofvIHp3YVIr2dknKjKR6wFxfLciJ7qNP_tNe9o6spy1BuNApI3eGXzTBMU-57LzA8Ai0Y_-uIOxa_FBlPQkWT5elj99w3afTwCvKD3SlcDh4RVO5twbk0/s320/zAshanti+Proverbs.png" width="320" height="160" data-original-width="600" data-original-height="300" /></a></div>
</p><blockquote><i>Ashanti, Asante (dialect), or Asante Twi, is spoken by over </br>2.8 million people in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.</i></blockquote>
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No tree ever bore fruit without first having flowers.</p>
When your gold dust is becoming finished, then you become prudent. </p>
Even if your mother is not a good woman, </br>she is your mother nevertheless. </p>
A crab does not give birth to a bird. </p>
When you have caught the mother hen, </br>you pick up the chickens without difficulty. </p>
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All destinies are not alike. </p>
By the time the fool has learned to play the game, </br>the players have dispersed. </p>
A word that when spoken you would wish back, </br>let it remain in your head. </p>
If one could know where death resided, </br>one would never stop there.</p>
A path has ears. </p>
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Personal beauty does not pay a debt. </p>
Death has the key to open the miser's chest. </p>
When you tap the pot, you see where the crack is. </p>
The herbs to apply to a snake bite are quickly plucked. </p>
It is the woman who knows her husband, </p>
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Wealth is a fine thing, but to find an heir is not easy. </p>
When the fool is told a proverb, </br>the meaning of it has to be explained to him. </p>
When a big bird does not trouble to fly it goes to sleep hungry. </p>
The poor man has no friend. </p>
Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king. </p>
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It is the path you do not fear that the wild beast catches you on. </p>
A river you would not bathe in is not drunk from. </p>
A good case is not difficult to state. </p>
The poor man and the rich man do not play together. </p>
Of hunger and debt, debt is preferable. </p>
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When an army suffers defeat, </br>a horn is not blown in its honor.</p>
It is the feathers on a fowl that make it big. </p>
No one puts his finger in another man's mouth </br>and then beats him over the head. </p>
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. </p>
It is poverty that causes the free man to become a slave. </p>
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No one who is following an elephant </br>has to knock the dew off the grass. </p>
He who is guilty is the one who has much to say. </p>
When your wife is a woman of no morals, </br>then she might as well be some one else's harlot. </p>
The poor man and the rich man do not play together. </p>
The conversation between husband and wife no one knows about. </p>
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What is not wanted is not turned back for. </p>
When a man is disliked he is blamed for all kinds of things. </p>
The physician's fee is not paid till the sickness is over. </p>
No one buys a cow's footprint. </p>
When one would climb a tree, one begins from the bottom </br>and not from the top. </p>
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The dog says he will never commit adultery, but when he does so, </br>he commits it with his own father’s wife. </p>
When rain beats on a leopard it wets him, </br>but it does not wash out his spots. </p>
In truth there is no deceit. </p>
It is one man who kills an elephant, but many people who eat its flesh. </p>
No one dispenses with the thumb in tying a knot. </p>
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A child does not look into the soup pot for nothing. </p>
The poor man has no friend. </p>
Ancient things remain in the ears. </p>
No one makes a fowl taboo and then eats its chickens. </p>
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. </p>
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When a king has good counselors, then his reign is peaceful. </p>
A knave for one is a good man for another. </p>
Your house is your own house. </p>
No one sends a child on an errand and looks </br>to see if he is pleased or not. </p>
Money is sharper than a sword. </p>
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It is only when a child cries that he is given the breast. </p>
A word that when spoken you would wish back, </br>let it remain in your head. </p>
No one sells his laying hen without a good reason. </p>
What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another. </p>
It is a small thing that is taken to measure a big thing. </p>
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An army is driven back by courage and not by insults, however many. </p>
There is no medicine to cure hatred. </p>
The bird weaves its nest by going and coming. </p>
A wife is like a blanket; when you cover yourself with it, </br> it irritates you, and yet if you cast it aside you feel cold.</p>
Even if the mouse were the size of a cow, </br>he would be the cat's slave nevertheless. </p>
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The enemy of a chief is he who has grown up with him from childhood. </p>
It is owing to being disturbed that a snake bites. </p>
One bird in your hand is better than ten birds in the sky. </p>
The biting fly gets nothing by alighting on the back of the tortoise. </p>
The dog says he will never commit adultery, but when he does so, </br>he commits it with his own father's wife. </p>
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All animals sweat, but the hair on them causes us not to notice it. </p>
One man's road does not go far without meeting another's. </p>
A sheep does not give birth to a goat. </p>
A slave does not choose his master. </p>
A snake does not bite a man without cause. </p>
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When you have five wives, you have five tongues. </p>
No one dreams of going to where they will kill him. </p>
It is difficult to throw a stone at a lizard which is clinging to a pot. </p>
The biting fly has no one to come to his aid in trouble. </p>
A wax bullet is not used to shoot an elephant. </p>
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When the hunter comes from the bush carrying mushrooms, </br>he is not asked for news of his hunting. </p>
Death is not a sleeping room that can be entered and come out of again. </p>
The vulture has not a good name and its body has not a good smell. </p>
There is nothing that hurts like shame. </p>
When war has come, rumors have come. </p>
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When a man is disliked he is blamed for a,/br>ll kinds of things. </p>
The bad bird fouls its own nest. </p>
A stranger is like a child. </p>
If plain water is satisfying enough, </br>then the fish would not take the hook. </p>
When an animal is not going to bite you, </br>it does not show its teeth at you. </p>
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No one boasts of what belongs to another. </p>
When a fly does not get up off a dead body, he is buried with it. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-57202302129096064272018-11-21T22:30:00.000-05:002019-01-10T18:13:00.136-05:00Efik Proverbs (33)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GmJ1i-cH1EqMQYGBzJpW3FqJlpnTR9bNWsOHPeOfktvoWED9A93qFhBjLE51atHDtqW6sK6hcj_lvfFK-gQgij7IqDZRg2-YePHxh3ounmE49H1GBBpIiVuK_hEmuCTCrUg6WCkH5qY/s1600/zEfik+Proverbs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GmJ1i-cH1EqMQYGBzJpW3FqJlpnTR9bNWsOHPeOfktvoWED9A93qFhBjLE51atHDtqW6sK6hcj_lvfFK-gQgij7IqDZRg2-YePHxh3ounmE49H1GBBpIiVuK_hEmuCTCrUg6WCkH5qY/s320/zEfik+Proverbs.jpg" width="320" height="133" data-original-width="600" data-original-height="250" /></a></div>
</p><blockquote><i>The Efik are an ethnic group located primarily in southeastern Nigeria, in the southern part of Cross River State.</i> </blockquote></p>
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Thought breaks the heart. </p>
A stream coming down won't let you swim up. </p>
It is not worth talking about a slip of the foot as if it were a fall. </p>
Man looks only on the outside of things; </br>God looks into the very heart. </p>
It is the sea only which knows the bottom of the ship, </br>as God only knows the time of death. </p>
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Times causes remembrance. </p>
A man always breaking off from his work never finishes anything. </p>
A knot in the tree spoils the axe; famine spoils friendship. </p>
Reverence your elder, for the man excelling in age excels in wisdom. </p>
It is good that equals consort together. </p>
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There is no worse curse than to desire a man's death. </p>
One knows not the stability of his life. </p>
He who falls by his foot shall rise again; </br>he who falls by his mouth shall not rise. </p>
The tree-knot spoils the axe; hunger spoils love. </p>
When a man sees sunshine he dries his tobacco. </p>
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Even a miser does not refuse his cook part of what he roasts. </p>
An elephant will reach to the roof of the house. </p>
A sitting in one place makes a man sleep. </p>
A man knows not whether he will see tomorrow. </p>
The fish when grown big returns to his rivulet. </p>
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Many destroy themselves by falsehood. </p>
He who asks questions hears the language, </br>or gets interpretations. </p>
One monkey does not like another to get a bellyful. </p>
It is the stomach which rules the man. </p>
The bad tree, like the crooked sugarcane, </br>says he will not straighten; he breaks. </p>
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A man who talks of others behind their backs, </br>another will talk of him in like manner. </p>
Connected with a great man, you will advance. </p>
A straight road has no turnings. </p>
Knowledge is better than riches. </p>
The son disgraces his father by bad conduct. </p>
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A man sauntering has no business. </p>
It is good for a man to bear trouble rather than die. </p>
A man does not use one finger to take out an arrow. </p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732772827728252501.post-57780159720872279212018-11-20T22:00:00.000-05:002019-01-16T01:13:20.694-05:00Egyptian Proverbs (125)
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The house of the unjust oppressor is destroyed, </br> though it should happen in distant times. </p>
Who seeks for wealth without previous wealth </br>is like him who carries water in a sieve. </p>
The eyewitness observes what the absent does not see. </p>
Blessed be the man who knows his power </br> and abstains from doing evil to others. </p>
The jealousy of the harlot is evidenced by adultery, </br> that of the virtuous woman by weeping. </p>
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The tears of the adultress are ever ready. </p>
There is no peace until after enmity. </p>
The first condition of friendship is to agree with each other. </p>
Poverty and anger do not agree. </p>
Upon every misfortune another misfortune. </p>
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The misfortunes of some people are advantages to others. </p>
The remedy against bad times is to have patience with them. </p>
Money is sweet balm. </p>
The merit belongs to the beginner, </br> should even the successor do better. </p>
Man is the slave of beneficence. </p>
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Silence is the best answer to the stupid. </p>
The best food is that which fills the belly. </p>
Anger without power is a ready blow. </p>
The wind blows as the sailors do not wish. </p>
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. </p>
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The serpent brings forth nothing but a little serpent. </p>
Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do. </p>
The dream of the cat is all about the mice. </p>
The clever and active valet wants no one to set him right. </p>
The value of each man consists in what he does well. </p>
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. </p>
He who eats alone, coughs alone. </p>
A fly is nothing; yet it creates loathsomeness. </p>
The cat that is always crying catches nothing. </p>
Evil is of old date. </p>
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Singing without remuneration </br> is like a dead body without perfumes. </p>
The market of debauch is always open. </p>
Drunkenness departed and reflection came. </p>
The devil does not destroy his own house. </p>
The crown of a good disposition is humility. </p>
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In every head is some wisdom. </p>
The tongue of experience has most truth. </p>
No one extracts the oil but the oil presser. </p>
The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother. </p>
Custom is a fifth nature. </p>
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No right is lost which is followed up by demands. </p>
Every thing forbidden is sweet. </p>
The image of friendship is truth. </p>
The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. </p>
With gentleness the fracture is repaired. </p>
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Govern the rabble by opposing them. </p>
The little among certain people are great among other people. </p>
The mother of the coward does not grieve for him. </p>
Even the handsome woman experiences the misfortune of divorce. </p>
One day in perfect health is much. </p>
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The guest of the hospitable treats hospitably. </p>
Strike the innocent that the guilty may confess. </p>
The best generosity is quick. </p>
The jealousy of a wife is the key to her divorce. </p>
Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. </p>
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. </p>
A blow from our lover is as sweet as the eating of raisins. </p>
He who loves a thing often talks of it. </p>
The embrace at meeting is better than that at parting. </p>
The ox that ploughs is not to be muzzled. </p>
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At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend. </p>
False ambition serves the neck. </p>
The tongue is the neck's enemy. </p>
The lazy person has no legs. </p>
There are no fans in hell. </p>
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The lazy person has no legs. </p>
In a town where you know nobody, </br> do whatever you like. </p>
Wise men do not quarrel with each other. </p>
The lazy are not fed on honey. </p>
A well is not to be filled with dew. </p>
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When the eye does not see, the heart does not does not grieve. </p>
Lending nurses enmity. </p>
Your beloved is the object that you love, were it even a monkey. </p>
The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. </p>
We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. </p>
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The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind. </p>
Sometimes love has been implanted by one glance alone. </p>
Man is only man by his money. </p>
The corn passes from hand to hand, but comes at last to the mill. </p>
Who possesses little has the first right to it. </p>
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The devil knows his Lord, but still practices evil. </p>
When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond. </p>
A blow that is profitable does not hurt the neck. </p>
The camel has his projects, and the camel driver has his projects. </p>
The day obliterates the promise of the night. </p>
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. </p>
A rose issues from thorns. </p>
Lending is ruinous to lenders and borrowers. </p>
The captain of the ship means one way, the sailor another. </p>
If the sailors become too numerous, the ship sinks. </p>
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Everyone sells his rags in his own market. </p>
A tree that affords you shade, do not order it to be cut down. </p>
The liar is short-lived. </p>
A single grain makes the balance heavier. </p>
A single spark can burn the whole quarter. </p>
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A harlot does not repent; and water in a jar does not become sour milk. </p>
A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist. </p>
The butcher is not startled at the multiplicity of sheep. </p>
Take the thief before he takes you. </p>
The sultan teaches and is not to be taught. </p>
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. </p>
The efforts of the poor are their tears. </p>
Hearsay is not like ocular testimony. </p>
All that is known is not told. </p>
The fool has his answer on the edge of his tongue. </p>
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The eye of the sun cannot be hidden. </p>
The hawk is not frightened by the cries of the crane. </p>
Take the book by its title; or, take the letter by its address. </p>
Obedience to the tongue causes repentance. </p>
Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. </p>
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Custom is the twin of the innate character. </p>
A tyrannical sultan is better than constant anarchy. </p>
The ultimate remedy is a cautery. </p>
On the day of victory no fatigue is felt. </p>
The village saint is a clever impostor. </p>
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If you see a wall inclining, run from under it. </p>
Who wants a thing is blind to its faults. </p>
A well from which you drink, throw not a stone into it. </p>
If the wind blows, it enters at every crevice. </p>
When the stomach is concerned, wisdom withdraws. </p>
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Ignorance that supports me is better than wisdom </br> which I must support. </p>
The husband of the harlot is a base wretch by his own testimony. </p>
He who introduces himself between the onion and the peel,</br> does not go forth without its strong smell. </p>
The thief who understands his business does not steal </br> from his own quarter of the town. </p>
The mare is not to be valued according to its housing </br> and its ornaments in front. </p>
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A trial between brothers has no winners or losers.</p>
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.</p>
A village without elderly is unhappy.</p>
As long as fire stays in one’s breast, it does not cool down.</p>
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, </br> but thank him for not giving it wings. </p>
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Eggs should never be beaten with stones.</p>
Eggs and metal should not be put in the same sack.</p>
Equality is not easy, but superiority is painful.</p>
Eyes watch but cannot take.</p>
Great fires erupt from tiny sparks.</p>
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.</p>
Intelligence is a fruit picked in the nieghbor's garden.</p>
It is better to be kind to our neighbours than to cross </br> the world to offer incense to our ancestors.</p>
It is not possible to dodge the arrow before it has been thrown.</p>
One rind is enough to tie a thousand pieces of wood.</p>
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Praise and truth are revealed slowly.</p>
Sorrow is like rice in the store; if a basketful is </br> removed everyday, it will come to an end at last.</p>
The same water never runs into the same river.</p>
The monkey is a thief because it does not work.</p>
The chief's wisdom is a mesh of old stories, good and bad.</p>
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The heart is not a knee, it does not bend.</p>
The camel does not see the bend in its neck.</p>
The sore is cured but the scar remains..</p>
The leopard does not eat fish. </br> A leader does not waste time on minutia.</p>
Those of the mean people are consumed on the celebration day.</p>
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Unity is strength, division is weakness.</p>
Wearing a mended dress is better than being naked.</p>
When cutting, look at the age of the machete.</p>
When your neighbour is wrong you point a finger, </br> but when you are wrong you hide.</p>
Who created thunder does not fear it.</p>
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Whoever walks out cannot leave a banana on the fire.</p>
Whoever walks with unworthy people becomes unworthy.</p>
You think of water when the well is empty.</p>
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<blockquote></p><i>The Fulani people one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa. They are bound together by the Fula language.</i></p></blockquote>
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Prevention of desire equals theft of possessions.</p>
He who wears trousers of iron will not sit down.</p>
A bird that agrees to be caught will find a way of escape.</p>
However much milk the cow has it will not milk butter.</p>
However swift a man, he will not outstrip his shadow.</p>
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The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sandfly.</p>
He who takes wages for work must needs perform it.</p>
Wood near the fire will catch.</p>
What cleverness hides, cleverness will reveal.</p>
Be a dog ever so quick to start it will not catch</br> a monkey swarming up a tree.</p>
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The needs of the monkey are not those of the anteater.</p>
Wealth is like smoke.</p>
Hawks will not carry off the fowl destined to crow.</p>
Where a big drum is beaten a small one must not be.</p>
He who has no authority will not have ceremonial drums.</p>
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A single bracelet, even of silver, will not tinkle.</p>
Few bewail a fool's misfortune.</p>
An axe for wax will not cut rock.</p>
A rat has never lost its hole.</p>
He who stores will take; he who does not store will not take.</p>
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The owner of the bed knows his bed bug.</p>
Those with the same fur enter the same hole.</p>
When you see a monkey on a tree it has already seen you.</p>
If you go up a tree you know how to come down.</p>
Patience will not spoil.</p>
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The owner has authority to work.</p>
A porcupine will not mind needle grass.</p>
Tomorrow is very close.</p>
To run and stop is not bravery.</p>
A sharpened knife will not butcher a dead cow.</p>
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The satisfaction of a full man is of no use to a hungry man.</p>
If a knife is lacking, a strip of bark will cut.</p>
Be it ever so dark the hand will not miss the mouth.</p>
Better manure than unfertile soil.</p>
Continued beating kills the snake.</p>
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It is little that a talkative man escapes.</p>
What one man eats and is satisfied by, another eats and dies.</p>
What a knife has not cut a strip of bark will not cut.</p>
Be the town ever so far there is another beyond it.</p>
All that is in the heart is written in the face.</p>
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A dog with a full mouth will not bark.</p>
If the salt is stored, the soup will not be good.</p>
The snake is feared because of its mouth.</p>
God will not drive flies away from a tailless cow.</p>
Not every storm cloud falls in rain.</p>
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A satisfied man does not know what a hungry man feels.</p>
An old man will not dance to make laughter.</p>
A market is not held for the sake of one person.</p>
Constant seeing is the lesson for an ignorant man.</p>
One bean spoiled the beans.</p>
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A long beard does not prevent a house going to bed hungry.</p>
A borrowed thing will not fulfill your desire.</p>
If speech is silver, patience is gold.</p>
Be the cow ever so poor it is not like a wild animal.</p>
The tool to hand will be used.</p>
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What is in the heart will lead to the mouth.</p>
Hot water is no playground for a frog.</p>
Better a mistake at the beginning than at the end.</p>
The anteater's grief is not the monkey's.</p>
Dreaming of eating will not satisfy the hungry.</p>
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Be the lid ever so small it will not go in the pot.</p>
The darkness of night will not prevent morn.</p>
By crawling a child begins to walk.</p>
The father's friend is no friend of the son.</p>
A greedy man will not die till he feels shame.</p>
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Greed will take you where you would not be.</p>
To learn and to be able is better than to beg.</p>
A blind man needs not to buy a mirror.</p>
Ignorance of a thing is darker than darkness.</p>
A man who does one bad action will stoop to another.</p>
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A hen does not play with a cat.</p>
Silence itself is eloquent.</p>
He who rides the horse of greed at a gallop </br>will pull it up at the door of shame.</p>
Better ignorance than bad news: </br>Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.</p>
If familiarity were useful water would not cook fish.</p>
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Victory is a thing that is remembered.</p>
What one man eats and is satisfied by, another eats and dies.</p>
Whatever the hyena does by night </br>at dawn it goes home.</p>
Worms that live on mahogany do not know that dates are sweet.</p>
If you do not rise when you do not want to, </br>you will not arrive when you want to.</p>
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Better to see the world than not to see it.</p>
However sweet talk, silence is better.</p>
Clouds are the sign of rain.</p>
He who gives you a little will give you much.</p>
A dog with a full mouth will not bark.</p>
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A dog once burnt will leave ash covered embers alone.</p>
Envy is prosperity's manure.</p>
Be a dog ever so quick to start it will not catch </br>a monkey swarming up a tree.</p>
One man's fall is another's uprising.</p>
The feet rest but the heart is not at ease.</p>
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If pleasant it will be shortlived, if unpleasant longlived.</p>
Concentration brings near the distant camp.</p>
The yes eat not but they know what will satisfy.</p>
Where the bone is softest there it will be gnawed.</p>
Hope nourishes the living.</p>
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The hole of lying is not deep.</p>
Anything that releases you from a dilemma is useful.</p>
Better dislike than contempt.</p>
However much the beetle is afraid </br>it will not stop the lizard swallowing it.</p>
A stranger though he has a bed will return home.</p>
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Departure on a journey is not death.</p>
A dog once burnt will leave ash covered embers alone.</p>
A building of sand falls as you build.</p>
There is no doctor on the day of death.</p>
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.</p>
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He whom talk killed had forgotten how to keep silent.</p>
Talk gets a talkative man into trouble.</p>
If an elephant enters the forest and breaks trees </br>it will not stop the hare breaking grass.</p>
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<blockquote><i>Ga is a Kwa language, part of the Niger–Congo family. It is very closely related to Adangme, and together they form the Ga–Dangme branch within Kwa. It is spoken in Ghana.</i></blockquote>
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The eyes of a stranger may be very large, </br>but he does not see the inner things of the town. </p>
A bad person is better than an empty house. </p>
A man is not lean without cause. </p>
If a thief says he knows how to steal, let him steal a cannon. </p>
Gunpowder and fire do not agree. </p>
❖</p>
Hate has no medicine. </p>
A tree which has no fork, its ascent is difficult. </p>
No one gives a pig to a hyena to keep. </p>
He who has wine says it is good. </p>
Nobody is twice a fool. </p>
❖</p>
An old broom is better than a new one. </p>
If the horse is mad, he who sits upon it is not also mad. </p>
A good word removes anger. </p>
The days of poverty are more than the days of superfluity. </p>
A hot needle burns the thread. </p>
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A quiet man makes not the noise of an elephant. </p>
Were no elephant in the jungle, </br>the buffalo would be a great animal. </p>
It is the ear that troubles the mouth. </p>
A debtor does not get angry. </p>
A crab does not beget a bird. </p>
❖</p>
Two crocodiles do not live in one hole. </p>
No sleep, no dream. </p>
One bad nut spoils all. </p>
Clear water is not wanted for quenching fire. </p>
Nobody wars with ghosts. </p>
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A dead goat does not fear the knife. </p>
If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. </p>
The brook does not ascend the mountain. </p>
Quarrel is not a food which is eaten. </p>
A good word removes anger. </p>
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A young crocodile does not die in the river. </p>
A stick that goes into fire will begin to burn. </p>
A child does not break a land tortoise, </br>but a child knows how to break a snail. </p>
Earth and heaven do not come together. </p>
The mouth does not know that its master is afraid. </p>
❖</p>
An elephant does not eat small berries. </p>
The cat does not cease to cry "miau." </p>
A river moves a river on. </p>
A blind man does not show the way to a blind man. </p>
Nobody hates anybody without cause. </p>
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A cat is not sold in a bag, but openly produced. </p>
A hyena does not drive a cow. </p>
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A child can pass through a lion’s hole.</p>
A mother’s womb is technicolor; it gives birth </br> to any kind and character of children.</p>
A night without roosters will still end.</p>
A chicken that keeps scratching the dung-hill </br> will soon find the mother’s thigh bones.</p>
A man who rides a crazy horse is crazier still.</p>
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A tune is made meaningful by lyrics; a point </br> is elucidated by analogies and idioms.</p>
A raven's age matters not when there are grasshoppers.</p>
A fowl shuns the poisonous worm.</p>
A rooster prays in his own way.</p>
A secret belongs to one person.</p>
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A village pounds their grain at night, </br> only when they have something to hide.</p>
A rope which is pulled for a long time, breaks.</p>
An aging man gets closer to his land and an </br> aging husband closer to his wife.</p>
Another person's heart is a wilderness.</p>
As the chimp gets higher and higher climbing </br> the tree it exposes its unflattering behind.</p>
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Because he hardly closes his mouth the fool's teeth suffer from frost.</p>
Being a burglar with a cough and supplicating to God </br> with a grudge in the heart are not productive.</p>
Better a single decision maker than a thousand advisors.</p>
By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest.</p>
Do not open the mouth of a snake to see its teeth.</p>
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Don't blame the darkness if you bump into a pole.</p>
Dreams can be told but not acted. </br> It is sometimes easy to say a thing,</br> while you can’t do it.</p>
Even though the sound of the horn is not pleasant,</br> it is still blown by a man's mouth.</p>
Every thing is good when it is used properly.</p>
Gast differences among people are in </br> the realm of character, not anatomy.</p>
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God’s displeasure is the serious thing; that of others can be endured.</p>
Grumbling causes the slave to be sold.</p>
Half of one’s strength in conflict situations is one’s verbal skills.</p>
Hate has no medicine.</p>
Having little knowledge is like having </br> your hands tied around your neck.</p>
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He is dying of his own bad habits.</p>
He who leaves truth behind, returns to it.</p>
He who feeds you keeps an eye on you.</p>
He who seems to be for you may be working against you.</p>
He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble.</p>
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He who eats alone dies alone – without mourners.</p>
Hoe and slash is your father and mother.</p>
However rich a man is, it is not right to plunder his things with big pans.</p>
If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.</p>
If the stone falls on the pot, woe to the pot;</br> if the pot falls on the stone, woe to the pot.— Ghanaian
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If a mouse enters into the hole of a snake, forget about it.</p>
If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.</p>
If an arrow has not entered deeply, then its removal is not hard.</p>
If something doesn't please you, </br> it makes everything else bitter to you.</p>
If the neighbor is quarrelsome, they will make thier own fence.</p>
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If you have some food in your mouth, and you are roasting something, it becomes well roasted.</p>
If you wish to kill a crocodile, quickly rap on its egg.</p>
If you collect peppers one by one,</br> the plant grows well; but if you break the stem, it dies.</p>
If you don't farm you are not eating.</p>
If you come near the river, you will hear the crab cough.</p>
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If you want to lean on a tree, first make sure it can hold you.</p>
It is not only one person who bathes in the witch's water.</p>
It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once </br>just because one has two feet.</p>
It is not becoming to uncover one's behind to cover the face.</p>
It is not the cook's fault when the cassava </br> turns out to be hard and tasteless.</p>
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It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.</p>
Kindness with words is as readily </br> available as goods in the market.</p>
Kinship is like the scales; it keeps one on balance.</p>
Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.</p>
Man must always be happy in order to perform well.</p>
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Misfortunes do not have set times for coming.</p>
Misfortunes do not come only to slaves.</p>
Money is like the waters of a swelling river, it flows away.</p>
Never ride in a boat made of clay.</p>
No matter who you are you will never </br> let your cow sink into the mud.</p>
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Old woman, if you are quarrelsome, make your own fence!</p>
Once you throw your spear, it is gone.</p>
One man's enemy is another man's friend.</p>
One repeatedly is a big bunch.</p>
One does not forego sleeping </br> because of the possibility of nightmares.</p>
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One palm nut cannot be peeled twice.</p>
One piece of green wood is enough</br> to stop the others from burning.</p>
One's character is written in stone.</p>
One’s name remains above the grave.</p>
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.</p>
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Owl, why are you so quiet? I am quiet because of words.</p>
Relatives are a better defense than a fortress.</p>
Remorse never comes first.</p>
Some proverbs bring a quarrel; and others finish a quarrel.</p>
Struggle farming, don't see them eating.</p>
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Teeth are all friends among each other.</p>
The old woman looks after her hens </br> and the hens look after the old woman.</p>
The chief is only as strong as his people.</p>
The child of a snake is snake.</p>
The horse has four legs but still falls sometimes.</p>
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The death that passed already, even if </br> they tell it to you today does not cause sorrow.</p>
The army of the palm tree is its branches.</p>
The horse can take you to the battlefield </br>but cannot do the fighting for you.</p>
The beast of burden will die, but its workload remains.</p>
The blood soup made of one palm nut is shared in little drops.</p>
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The dog does not worry when the </br> chicken runs over to the bones.</p>
The dead are no longer terrible.</p>
The drum that beats well is the one that breaks.</p>
The grasshopper which is always </br> near its mother eats the best food.</p>
The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast.</p>
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The pains of the crocodile are known only to the hippopotamus.</p>
The one who visits you is better than</br> the one who sends you greetings.</p>
The witch is going! The witch is going! but </br> if you are not a witch you don't turn around to look.</p>
The mouth of an elderly man is without teeth, </br> but never without words of wisdom.</p>
One man’s curse is another man’s blessing.</p>
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The wasp says that several regular trips</br> to a mud pit enables it to build a house.</p>
The old lady doesn't wear properly the rag that is tied </br> about one's chest when mourning for a close relative.</p>
The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.</p>
The last quail to fly is the one struck by the hunting sticks.</p>
The sound of a small baby can be heard easily in heaven.</p>
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The poor man laid an egg </br> and the rich man hatched it.</p>
The prickly branches of the palm tree </br> does not show preference even to friends.</p>
The one who fetches the water is </br>the one who is likely to break the pot.</p>
The old woman's meat is vegetables.</p>
The Princess has all rights in her home.</p>
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The kingdom of the mushroom is the stem.</p>
There is something better somewhere.</p>
There is no medicine against old age.</p>
There is no distinction among the common </br> baskets made of palm branches.</p>
They do not build in the red ant's village.</p>
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Those who farm little, harvest less.</p>
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest,</br> the antelope still has time to grow up.</p>
To eat with speed causes one to spit out continuously.</p>
To fight with everyone can result in shortage of pallbearers at your funeral.</p>
To hunt in the morning is to meet animals.</p>
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Two calabashes floating in a basin of water will touch each other, </br> but not damage each other.</p>
Unity is strength.</p>
Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, </br> the hunter will always have the best part of the story.</p>
Wealth usually comes in walking but exits running.</p>
What do eyes and friendship have in common? </br> Minor incidents can damage both.</p>
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When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest.</p>
When your eyes are poked your grip on someone’s throat loosens.</p>
When a wild pig walks in the daytime, </br> something has caused it to leave its hiding place.</p>
When they gossip about someone listen as if it were about you.</p>
When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.</p>
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When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you.</p>
Where there is wisdom, the well doesn’t run dry.</p>
Wherever a wise man goes, he goes with his wisdom.</p>
Who follows the elephant will have no problems. </p>
Wind is never caught by hand.</p>
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Work very hard at what you do; </br>dine as well as you can afterwards.</p>
You can tell if a house is good if a </br> lot of children are playing around it.</p>
You must be patient to solve a case or a problem.</p>
You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.</p>
Your close friend can be your worst enemy and vice versa.</p>
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Your words reveal the kind of person you are.</p>
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One bracelet will not jingle. </p>
He who takes one sip isn't satisfied. </p>
Speech is pulling a straw out of thatch</br>once out it cannot be replaced. </p>
Throwing water over yourself once won't get rid of the dirt. </p>
One tree does not make a forest. </p>
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However long the night, dawn will break. </p>
One beats iron while still hot. </p>
Character is a line on stone, none can rub it out. </p>
Speed breeds delay. </p>
Thanks cause the increase of gifts. </p>
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The wily man doesn't buy snuff till he has sampled it. </p>
However good garlic is, it will not be as good as an onion. </p>
It is the mouth that cuts the throat. </p>
A bone in a mortar is no luck for the dog. </p>
Let each bird cry according to its kind. </p>
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If you hear a jar rattling, it is not full. </p>
He who farms is spared the trouble of buying corn. </p>
He who loves you won't see your faults. </p>
Water can drown the ferryman, much more the learner. </p>
Because of deceit day does not refuse to break. </p>
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Birth is the remedy for death. </p>
One bean spoils the flour. </p>
Reducing debt is better than swelling it. </p>
When lies finish in a free man's mouth, </br>he will become a slave and be sold. </p>
The hole of lying is easily filled up. </p>
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If there is neither food nor drink, plain water is medicine. </p>
It's not right for a race horse to despise the pace of a pony. </p>
A hare is caught not by sitting down. </p>
Every dog rests at his own door. </p>
A meatless bone is the dog's. </p>
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Life in the world is like washing-you knead him who kneads you. </p>
The quarrel that doesn't concern you is pleasant to hear about. </p>
He who remembers last year finds not this year good. </p>
One does not tear one's coat because of the cleverness of sewing. </p>
The deceits of women are 99. </br>The one which completes the 100, </br>the devil knows it not. </p>
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Only by waiting is character known. </p>
Tobacco is different from millet flour. </p>
A poor man's drum is his belly. </p>
One knows a man by his trade even if it is drinking beer. </p>
Death is the revealer of secrets. </p>
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Living in peace is better than living as a king. </p>
The knife for flaying an elephant needs not size but sharpness. </p>
The sick man's property belongs to the doctor. </p>
One horse in the racecourse runs the fastest. </p>
A thing put out to dry will not stop the sun. </p>
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Every tomato is red. </p>
Fear in the forest is shame at home. </p>
Sharpening a knife doesn't frighten a horse. </p>
Your enemy will not praise you, even though </br>you catch a leopard and give it to him. </p>
A fish is a king in the water. </p>
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A poor man's house is no place for a war horse. </p>
Galloping in water is the remedy for a vicious horse. </p>
One day of prosperity is better than a year of poverty. </p>
However debased the lion it will not play with a pig. </p>
Put out the fire while it is small. </p>
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Patience is the universal remedy. </p>
The strength of women is but a plentitude of talk. </p>
Send a boy where he wants to go and you'll see his best pace. </p>
Trade is not mutual help. </p>
If the ear hears news of evil, the neck escapes being severed. </p>
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The fish in the well experiences no pleasure. </p>
A good thing sells itself. </p>
The house of one's intimates isn't a market. </p>
The craftsman should be recognized by the tools of his craft. </p>
A boy knows not fire till it burns him. </p>
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A needle with a piece of string will not be lost. </p>
A smiling face removes unhappiness. </p>
A calf will not follow horses. </p>
A horse knows its rider. </p>
However poor the elephant, it will be worth more than ten frogs. </p>
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Ability to swim is preservation of life. </p>
A cow is milked by gentle handling. </p>
However bad the bread it is better than cattle dung. </p>
He who will not work of his own accord </br>will find himself forced to work by another. </p>
The boaster dies before his days are fulfilled. </p>
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A year is a day if life continues. </p>
The mouth knows what it will say, not what it will be answered. </p>
One will distinguish between the bitter gourd and the sweet. </p>
He who is angry with the world must be tired of it. </p>
Troubles don't last forever. </p>
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Whatever the avarice of a midwife, </br>she doesn't come to the house of a bachelor. </p>
Hunger is the remedy for poor cooking. </p>
Having is better than wanting, </p>
Haste is not strength. </p>
Even if the forest is undone, the elephant is above running. </p>
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One does not throw away the stick that drives off poverty. </p>
A sack is no load for a goat. </p>
The goat learns wisdom from a cropped ear. </p>
Patience is wealth to its possessor. </p>
The mouth of any who eats onion will smell. </p>
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The foot does not stay where there is no ground. </p>
The elephant's spoor treads out the camel's. </p>
A shining face goes with a full belly. </p>
An egg in the mouth is better than a fowl in the fowl house. </p>
Without trouble there is no profit. </p>
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He who wants an exchange despises his own. </p>
It is difficult to beat a drum with a sickle. </p>
Guile excels strength. </p>
Plenty and envy lie down together. </p>
Even today the remedy for dirt is water. </p>
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<i>Hausa is the ancestral language of one of the largest ethnic groups in Central Africa. It is spoken throughout southern Niger and northern Nigeria.</i>
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If the lion knew that he was going to find meat </br>while still in the thicket he wouldn't go outside. </p>
The useless man is like sand; though </br>it be rolled together it will not stay rolled. </p>
A stranger is blind even though he have eyes. </p>
Better hunger than disgrace. </p>
Everything the house gets is by favor of the door. </p>
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If you're going to move, move like an elephant, not like a hyena. </p>
Health of the body is prosperity. </p>
The wily man doesn't buy snuff till he has sampled it. </p>
Better sell cheap than for credit.</p>
Don't put the roof on when the rain is wetting you. </p>
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You can't play with eggs on a rock slab! </p>
Even in Mecca profit is all the same. </p>
However old the horse it is better than new sandals. </p>
A good disposition makes a man liked. </p>
The possessor came before the seeker. </p>
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An ostrich chick is too much for a hawk to pick up. </p>
Confused sounds will not make speech. </p>
Birth is the remedy for sorrow. </p>
Kindness and evil are not forgotten. </p>
All love is love, but self love is strongest. </p>
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Putting the water back in the well is not waste. </p>
The rainbow is not God but it prevents God sending rain. </p>
Better the poorest loincloth than nakedness. </p>
If you don't want to resign yourself to poverty, resign yourself to work. </p>
Fate makes a man dismount quicker than counsel. </p>
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With rotten meat is the hyena caught. </p>
The belly is not a treasurer. </p>
Ignorance is an illness for which there's no medicine. </p>
Sleep is the remedy for fear. </p>
However pleasant the sound of a drum, silence is better. </p>
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Silence is talk too. </p>
The wolf doesn't concern himself with the price of a sheep. </p>
Better to be silent than to speak ill of another. </p>
Man is like pepper: not till you chew him do you know his heat. </p>
Bucking will not rid a donkey of a load. </p>
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Where one dies, there another gets up. </p>
Medicine will not revive him doomed to die. </p>
The antelope does not bear a child that cannot run. </p>
A piece of meat isn't the dog's portion unless it falls on the ground. </p>
However full the stream it won't refuse to rise higher. </p>
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A seedling is better than a cutting. </p>
The seed that is sown is the one that sprouts. </p>
A day with your friend is better than a year with one who hates you. </p>
On the day of trouble, a free man chooses patience. </p>
He who does not lose his way by night will not lose his way by day. </p>
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A rod is the cure for a boy's folly. </p>
Lack of knowledge is darker than the night.</p>
The first sign of a quarrel is gesticulation. </p>
Seeing excels hearing. </p>
Punishment is not putting to death, it is improving character. </p>
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He who restrains his impatience to eat </br>will find his food the sweeter. </p>
He who likes you sees not your faults. </p>
In the absence of moonlight the star shines. </p>
The roast takes a long time to a hungry man. </p>
The nose knows not the savor os salt. </p>
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Poverty will not drive away freedom. </p>
If the river prevents crossing it will not prevent turning back. </p>
A goat cannot be cooked with the hyena. </p>
Gratitude is what shows whether a gift is appreciated. </p>
One doesn't climb a tree by the trunk </br> and come down by the branches. </p>
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The shrub with one root is not hard to pull up. </p>
Anyone who sees a leopard knows it is not a pig. </p>
He who continually uses an axe, must keep it sharp. </p>
Only a donkey is patient under a load. </p>
Food and drink both go to the belly. </p>
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A stranger is like running water. </p>
Seeing the case of another is enough to cause fear. </p>
When there is nothing to eat but corn, rice is a luxury. </p>
Better to repair than to build anew. </p>
Everything above falls to earth at the end. </p>
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If the hyena were peaceful, the dog would not acknowledge it. </p>
Silence defeats the scandal monger. </p>
The chick loved by God will grow up, though motherless. </p>
Abundance will make cotton pull a stone. </p>
Truth is hard to tell-if you tell it look for your sandals. </p>
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Blood is not the remedy for thirst. </p>
Through lack of bargaining one loses a cheap buy. </p>
The expert rider is the man on the horse. </p>
Hyena and dog can't share an abode. </p>
If the music changes so does the dance. </p>
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Blood will not wash away dirt. </p>
The pleasant land is never near. </p>
He who does not know a famous person surely will hear of him. </p>
Better begging than theft. </p>
An ostrich is too great to alight on a branch. </p>
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Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman. </p>
One does not put two irons in the fire. </p>
It is the fowl with chicks that flees from the hawk. </p>
Similarity is not identity. </p>
He who lacks today is he who finds tomorrow. </p>
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The elephant does not bite, it is that trunk one fears. </p>
He who is in the shade doesn't know that another is in the sun. </p>
The pleasant land is never near. </p>
Fat meat is known when taken close to the fire. </p>
An axe with a loose head is the bane of a man up a tree. </p>
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Give thanks for a little and you'll find a lot. </p>
The patient man cooks a stone till he drinks broth from it. </p>
One blow will not knock a strong man down. </p>
Not always does one sleep on a bed, </br>sometimes one must sleep even on the ground. </p>
The bird that walks straight into the snare is bound to be caught. </p>
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<a href="https://www.worldofproverbs.com/2017/01/hausa-proverbs-101-200.html">Hausa Proverbs (101-200)</p></a>
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He who neglects his farm won't see a bright eye in his house. </p>
A lazy man does not know he is lazy till </br>he drives a tortoise away and it escapes. </p>
If the bucket has been long in the well, </br>it ought to come out with water. </p>
Choose your fellow traveler before you start on your journey. </p>
Only a gadfly can sit on an elephant's back. </p>
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He who looks for what cannot be obtained </br> will endure much trouble. </p>
Hunger makes a youngster old, </br>repletion makes an old man young. </p>
A lazy man will not bring a hare to market. </p>
He who likes frogs does not like fish. </p>
The good looking man is king, if there is no rich man near. </p>
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The meat close to the fire is best cooked. </p>
Each end of the fire has its smoke. </p>
One man's gain is another's loss. </p>
Every man thinks well of his own abilities. </p>
One pebble doesn't make a floor. </p>
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It is the owner of the farm who drives off a leopard, not another man. </p>
He who does not know a famous person surely will hear of him. </p>
One tells a dog there's a feast at your home, </br> it says let me see it on the ground. </p>
Property is the remedy for disgrace. </p>
There is no rest for the poor man. </p>
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A man's face shows what is in his heart. </p>
Character comes before the teacher. </p>
Where the runner goes the walker will go with patience. </p>
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty. </p>
It is the occupant who knows where the house leaks. </p>
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Self control excels control of a beast. </p>
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, </br>there is someone better than you. </p>
Where an elephant is being killed, </br>none notices the death of a monkey. </p>
Being thin is not death. </p>
A blind man does not worry over the loss of a looking glass. </p>
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Loving one who loves another is a bellyful of trouble. </p>
ts the bud that makes the gourd. </p>
The place to get top speed out of a horse </br>is not the place where you can get top speed out of a canoe. </p>
Pride brings curses. </p>
He who has a pup as good as has a dog. </p>
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When the treasure house is full desire ceases. </p>
However foolish the monkey it will not play with the thorn tree. </p>
He who owns something knows all about begging. </p>
To the joyless man death is a blessing. </p>
It's the mother who can cure her child's tears. </p>
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The patient man cooks a stone till he drinks broth from it. </p>
A hawk doesn't swoop on a stone ball </br>unless there's a piece of meat on it. </p>
Choose your neighbor before you buy your house. </p>
A misfortune borne patiently is as though it had not been. </p>
Escaping with your reputation is better </br> than escaping with your property. </p>
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Before one comes out of water one does not squeeze. </p>
Sleeping in a shed is better than sleeping </br> in a two-storey house with no money. </p>
A prisoner does not choose his task. </p>
Let anyone who despises the position of the moon get up and correct it. </p>
The remedy for dislike is separation. </p>
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Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit. </p>
One tells a dog there’s a feast at your home, </br>it says let me see it on the ground. </p>
Anyone who sees a leopard knows it is not a dog. </p>
A lie even after a year is a lie, truth has its abiding place. </p>
Stone will not become water. </p>
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A sick man despises not medicine. </p>
Desperate search doesn't cause finding. </p>
Seeing is not eating. </p>
The rope strong enough to bind the free man is hard to find. </p>
Evil counsel is the root of misfortune. </p>
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One day with the prosperous man </br>is better than a year with the poor man. </p>
One does not give a hyena meat to look after. </p>
One does not dive onto a rock. </p>
A large animal is nice but difficult to feed. </p>
Plenty to eat and company is the feast. </p>
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Avoiding a quarrel is better than asking forgiveness. </p>
He who skirts a town doesn't know what is inside. </p>
One twig will not sweep. </p>
Eating a mouthful is better than waiting for a helping. </p>
A libel hurts worse than a spear thrust. </p>
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The hyena is the cure for the biting dog. </p>
Where talk is abundant, it is easy for a lie to slip in. </p>
Talk without authority is useless talk. </p>
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Things are miraculous: reeds produce water, </br> forests produce firewood and fire produce ashes. </p>
To be praised is to be lost. </p>
Tongue is lightening. </p>
Use of brains begets wealth. </p>
Water can not be forced uphill. </p>
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We should talk while we are still alive. </p>
We will water the thorn for the sake of the rose. </p>
We add wisdom to knowledge. </p>
We should put out fire while it is still small. </p>
We can't depend on one brave man. </p>
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What the people think cannot be denied. </p>
What is in the stomach carries what is in the head. </p>
When the date crop is over, everyone mocks at the palm tree. </p>
When a person hides sickness, we will hear cries of distress. </p>
When the mouse laughs at the car, there is a hole nearby. </p>
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Who has shoes does not fear thorns. </p>
Who walks in the mud, at some point must clean his feet. </p>
You do not run into mountains, but people yes. </p>
You cannot handle fire with your hands. </p>
You must treat the earth well.</br> It was not given to you by your parents.</br> It is loaned to you by your children. </p>
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You only make a bridge where there is a river. </p>
Your friend’s mother is your mother too.</p>
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<blockquote><i>Jabo (Djabo) is the self-designation of an ethnic group located in the southeastern part of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. They have also sometimes referred to themselves as Gweabo or Nimiah tribe.</i></p></blockquote>
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One who cannot pick up an ant and wants to pick up an elephant</br> will some day see his folly. </p>
A heedless dog is not fit for hunting. </p>
Evil deeds are like perfume; difficult to hide. </p>
By his deeds we know a man. </p>
The pumpkin has no unripe parts. </p>
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The thief does not gossip about his accomplice. </p>
One must touch a drum before it will speak. </p>
No time is set for death. </p>
If you can't spread my fame, don't besmirch my good name. </p>
Dead tree does not yield dew. </p>
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There is no wealth where there are no children. </p>
In a beloved wife there is no evil. </p>
Baldness is a thing of dignity. </p>
A person dies before we appreciate him. </p>
If you are stingy, your bad reputation will spread. </p>
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Gossiping about the enemy brings war. </p>
We decide our affairs, then we rest them with God. </p>
A patient person has all the wealth that there is in this world. </p>
A woman does not perish in marriage. </p>
On the palm tree that yields nuts the birds will tarry. </p>
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If you grind damp rice, it sticks to the mortar. </p>
Not all the people who weep over your corpse are your friends. </p>
The water spreads and spreads but the canoe lands at last. </p>
Eternity gives no answer. </p>
The bird is not big until he spreads his wings. </p>
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What the sea has swallowed it does not vomit out again. </p>
A person is not a palm nut which we cut open to see what it is inside. </p>
Fear surrounds the place where a snake disappeared in the bush. </p>
When it rains, the roof always drips the same way. </p>
Every head must do its own thinking. </p>
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If one comes to a fork of the road in a strange country, he stops to think. </p>
The dog's owner is the one who can take the bone from its mouth. </p>
As we teach a child, so he learns. </p>
The goat dwells among men for fear of the leopard. </p>
One does not embrace hunger. </p>
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A person dies before we appreciate him. </p>
One cannot fight on two roads. </p>
A patient person has all the wealth that there is in this world. </p>
A child does not speak while a grown-up is talking. </p>
War does not look at the ground. </p>
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The one who listens is the one who understands. </p>
The bird builds his nest, then he flies up the hill. </p>
If the elephant were not in the wilderness, </br>buffalo would be the greatest. </p>
One doesn't throw the stick after the snake has gone. </p>
It is not only giants that do great things. </p>
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If you marry a beautiful woman, you marry trouble. </p>
The leopard has no heart. </p>
One does not embrace the leopard. </p>
The butterfly that flies among the thorns will tear its wings. </p>
The foot that travels the road is the one that is pricked by the thorn. </p>
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Rats never sleep on the mat of the cat. </p>
The fruit must have a stem before it grows. </p>
A heedless dog is not fit for hunting. </p>
He does not kill the beast who only looks at it. </p>
The beasts plan ahead before entering the fields. </p>
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Wealth is short-lived. </p>
A man who has no house is like a bird </br>in the tree when a storm has broken. </p>
A person is not a palm nut which we cut open to see what it is inside. </p>
The stranger eats with care. </p>
A gossiping woman is the root of trouble. </p>
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Daring talk is not strength. </p>
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A good name is better than a nice scent.</p>
A stomach is not carried by a fool. </p>
A stick is straightened while still young. </p>
A woman’s stomach does not grow if she is not pregnant. </p>
A well developed bush cannot lack </br> or miss a useful tree to be felled. </p>
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A tractor driver doesn't fear dust. </p>
A thieving dog knows itself. </p>
A bug grows up in dry wood, comes to full maturity. </p>
A fool has many days. </p>
A messenger cannot be beaten. </p>
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A fool is like a wanderer lost on a path. </p>
A mother is the cornerstone of the family. </p>
A faithful woman is a crown to her husband. </p>
A funeral offers the opportunity for reconciliation. </p>
A Champion bull starts from birth. </p>
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A dog that steals sells its body. </p>
A log in the river will never be a crocodile. </p>
A deaf ear is followed by death and an ear that </br> listens is followed by blessings. </p>
A person who never travels, believes his mother's </br> cooking is the best in the world. </p>
A hyena cannot smell its own stench. </p>
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A small house will hold a hundred friends. </p>
A rich person does not have to struggle, that is, </br> share the problems of ordinary people. </p>
A village united in fraternity is prosperous. </p>
All monkeys can not hung on the same branch. </p>
An eye that you treat is the one that turns against you. </p>
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An orphaned calf licks its own back. </p>
Any goat can serve as bridewealth unless it has a defect. </p>
Bad dancing does not brake an engagement. </p>
Beer that will spoil ferments unequally. </p>
Big talkers won't be your in-laws long. </p>
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Blind belief is dangerous. </p>
Bow-legged person does not hunt antelopes. </p>
By persevering the egg walks on legs.</p>
Competition exhausted the lungs. </p>
Do not follow a person who is running a way. </p>
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Do not boast about yourself before </br>performing an event, but after the event. </p>
Do not fill your basket with useless shells of coconuts. </p>
Don't interrupt a woman fetching water. </p>
Drums are never beat without reason. </p>
Even a friend can not rescue one from old age. </p>
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Even an expert swimmer drowns. </p>
Every frog has its poison. </p>
God does not sleep. </p>
God cultivates with a blunt machete. </p>
Happiness is like a field you can harvest every season. </p>
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He who has a sister has a brother-in-law. </p>
He who refuses to obey cannot command. </p>
He who does not leave with a stone says </br> the stone is warm. </p>
He who treats you as himself does you no injustice. </p>
Home is for a husband and a wife. </p>
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How easy it is to defeat people who </br> do not kindle fire for themselves. </p>
If a girl sits badly, it is up to her mother to cover her thighs. </p>
If the rhythm of the drum beat changes, </br> the dance step must adapt. </p>
If you refuse directions from an elder,</br> you will walk until sunset. </p>
If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot. </p>
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If you educate a woman, you have educated a population. </p>
If you don't eat, you can't give blessing. </p>
If you provoke a rattlesnake, </br> you must be prepared to be bitten by it . </p>
Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. </p>
It is not possible to avoid a slippery home compound. </p>
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It is obvious when you receive a visitor </br> and you cook for him or her you will eat too. </p>
Leave bad things, talk peace. </p>
Let dogs sleep, otherwise if anything </br>done against them is a problem. </p>
Members of the same family are open </br> to each other and can discuss anything. </p>
Misery loves company. </p>
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No matter how early one awakes, </br>the sun does not rise first. </p>
No child should be babied while another </br>is offered to the hyena to bite. </p>
No person is an island. </p>
One who relates with a corrupt person</br> likewise gets corrupted. </p>
One in the woodpile does not laugh</br> at the one in the fire. </p>
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One person is thin porridge; </br> two people are soup; </br> three people are a lump. </p>
Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping. </p>
Only someone else can scratch your back. </p>
Regular work tires a woman but totally wrecks a man. </p>
Rumours generate misunderstandings. </p>
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Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd. </p>
Termites cause death, damage, and great harm to white ants. </p>
The possessor may become dispossessed. </p>
The venomous snake cannot be seen in the Savannah. </p>
The hyena with a cub does not eat </br> all the available food. </p>
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The one who milks the cow is not the same person </br> as the one who removes ticks from a cow. </p>
The chaser and the one who is chased get tired. </p>
The eye is a coward. </p>
The one with many uncles slept hungry. </p>
The fire burns the fire maker. </p>
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The devil turns against its friend. </p>
The bush in which you hide has eyes. </p>
The blame of the antelope is on the hunter. </p>
The greedy one swells the stomach. </p>
The eyes of the in-law belittle what they have seen. </p>
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The broken plate cannot be rejoined. </p>
The thorn in your foot is temporarily appeased, but it is still in. </p>
The fool hid what would eat him. </p>
The bull doesn’t bellow when it sleeps. </p>
The lame knows how to fall. </p>
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The man may be the head of the home;</br> the wife is the heart. </p>
The teeth of a man serve as a fence. </p>
The river swells with the contribution of the small streams. </p>
There is no hyena without a friend. </p>
There is no better mirror than a best friend. </p>
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<blockquote><i>The Kpelle people are the largest ethnic group in Liberia. They are located primarily in an area of central Liberia extending into Guinea. </i></p></blockquote>
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Trees which bear flowers do not always bear fruit. </p>
A child does not know his father's poverty. </p>
If you are not inside a house, you do not know about its leaking. </p>
A person is not his words. </p>
A talkative child reveals his mother's secrets. </p>
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The way the river flows at the surface is not the way it flows underneath. </p>
All the trees which sprout do not grow. </p>
An old rice bag is ugly, but the thing inside is beautiful. </p>
Friendship is not laughing. </p>
A needle is small but its metal is strong. </p>
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A tree with holes does not call the wind to itself. </p>
A person is not corn that you peel and see the seeds. </p>
All things which make noise at the side of the path </br>do not come down on the path. </p>
A baby chicken sleeps under a hawk's tree without knowing it. </p>
An owner of a house knows about its leaking. </p>
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One rat is outside but many rats are inside the hole. </p>
A person is not his words. </p>
Everything the mouth says, it does not do. </p>
Do not eat your chicken and throw its feathers in the front yard. </p>
A person is not corn that you peel and see the seeds. </p>
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