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If you're to jump a swamp, you need to make one long hurdle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need

No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about night

He that dines with the gods must do so with a very long spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The kola nut stays longer in the mouths of those who value it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about value

As long as I make you to be inferior, I render myself inferior.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don't stop.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work, man

If you want to grow a long tooth you must have enough lips to cover it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about life

A girl's patience can only be recognised by how long she keeps her virginity.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about patience

Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

No matter how long a stick may stay in a river, it will never change into fish.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

No matter how long a fallen tree stays in the river it can never be a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A man has to hold his mouth open a long time before a roasted partridge flies into it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time, man

However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about season

No matter how long and winding the road might be, it will always lead you to your destination.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you want to know how long a man's tongue is, let him use his mouth to lick honey from a plate.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about use, man

If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man