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When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heart

What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely finish is money.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, money

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.

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

The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food

The mouth does not eat if the feet do not walk and the hands work.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work

You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The mouth that eats should not talk, for it risks swallowing a fly.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The bee that carries honey in its mouth carries a sting in its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If your mouth is in someone else's kitchen it cannot get its independence.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about independence

A king who doesn't tolerate comments about his mouth shouldn't eat in public.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about public

Looking at a king's mouth one would never think he sucked his mother's breast.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother

The mouth of an elderly man is without teeth, but never without words of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wisdom, man

Unless the broken tooth is thrown out the mouth will continue to chew with caution.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about prudence

An old man's mouth produces a bad smell but the words that come out of it are sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, man, old, olderness

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

He who doesn't clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food

You may say the cassava in your mouth is bitter, but it is only looking at the next one.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bitter

A fool's mouth is his destruction.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about destruction, americans

The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans