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A talkative person is a traveller when he is tired, he keeps quiet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about quiet, people

A wise person must know the language, sayings, and tales of his society.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about society, fairy tales, language, people

Like a person, even the moon grows and vanishes in a transitional process.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon, people

The house roof fights the rain, but the person who is sheltered ignores it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain, people, home, house

It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about suffering, people

What makes a fool excited now a wise person had heard before and isn't excited.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

If you hide a sick person, your lamentation alarm will only announce his death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death, people

The always-hurrying person eats goat, but the one who takes his time eats beef.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, time

The person you know during daytime should also be recognisable during night time.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about night, people, time

A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A person who is always looking at the sky will never discover anything on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sky, people

Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about secret, people

A person who wants to see is people progress must first set to look into their tradition.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about progress, tradition, people

The strongest person among men is not he who fights everyone but is he who controls is anger.

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

A person's cleverness is not shown by how many words he utters at once but how he utters them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your bound to lose it completely.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

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

At that particular time a mad person gives you something take it immediately before he changes is mind.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about mind, people, time

The person who is coming from the bowels of the earth doesn't despise even the smallest amount of sunshine.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, people

The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people