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In the great river there are large and small fish.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about garden

A small axe is not sufficient to cut down a large tree.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The white ant is small but it creates the great anthill.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

No matter how small a pin can be a hen cannot swallow it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the big drum is sounded the small drums keep silence.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about silence

The smaller the lizard the greater the hope of becoming a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about hope

When there is a big tree, small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sun

When an elephant becomes as small as a monkey, it ceases to be an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you don't mend up a small crack on the wall you end up building the entire wall.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

If you think you're too small to be noticed go and sleep in a room which is full of mosquitoes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A kola nut is small, but it is more important that it goes round to each person and not that it fills the stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

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

Diamonds come in small packages.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Dynamite comes in small packages.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Better a small fish than an empty dish.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about things, americans

Big buckets can be filled at small streams.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans