Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children
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Truth is like fire it cannot be hidden under dry leaves.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth, fire, fire brigade
If you want visitors then you leave your front door open.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
Take what you need and leave our land the way you found it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about need
Even when you dig a soft place, you still leave the garden.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about garden
The moon lightens well but leaves certain areas in the dark.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about dark, moon
You can leave without a friend but never without a neighbour.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
The gourd that never leaves the boozing centre attains cracks.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If a frog leaves the swamp for the mountains, it means it is in danger.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about danger
You shouldn't leave your own fire ablaze to go and put out your neighbour's fire.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade
The hen knows that dawn has arrived but it leaves the duty of crowing to the cock.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about duty
When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, mother
The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges.
Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence
A bad broom leaves a dirty room.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about bad luck, bad, americans
Having finished the meal, the company leaves.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about companies, americans
He that fears leaves must not come into a wood.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
Bad men excuse their faults, good men leave them.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about man, bad luck, bad, americans, good, good luck
With the old year leave your faults, however dear.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, old, olderness
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man
Fire could leave ashes behind.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade
