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A person who is carrying an elephant on his head should not use his feet to tap snails on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about use, heads, people

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, people, man

The squirrel does not talk back to the elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Angolan

Gnats, in great number, can beat an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings about numbers

It's as if she's fallen off an elephant's trunk.

Proverbs and old sayings

Even an elephant can slip.

Proverbs and old sayings

Sleep after selling horses and elephants.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep

An elephant never tires of carrying his own trunk.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hare and the elephant don't travel well together.

Proverbs and old sayings

The heart of an adult is like that of an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

An elephant does not get tired carrying his trunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Burundi

The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian

An elephant will reach to the roof of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about home, house

The elephant will reach to the roof of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about home, house

However little you think of the elephant, you can't say it won't fill a pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

Even a big elephant can be caught in one female hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese

A monkey cannot dare what an elephant can.

Proverbs and old sayings

The tracks of the elephant cancels those of the antelope.

Proverbs and old sayings