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A ruined people are as miserable as a dog in the house of death.

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

Almost everyone is mad but some people can control there madness.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

If you what the hyena to eat a person then tie on him goats ears.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love, people

A blind person knows his environment more than a visitor with eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about blind, eyes, people

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about quiet, people

The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, nothing

Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight, people, old, olderness

An elephant grows and becomes an adult, even if people do not like it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, use, nothing

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

People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about circumstances, change, people

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about moon, people

The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun, blind, people

A sick way between two people can only be cared for if the two of them die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about 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

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

Proverbs and old sayings West African about 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