The teeth of a man serve as a fence. - Wolof proverb, Senegal |
The world did not make any promises |
The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb |
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth |
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth |
There is no medicine against old age. - Accra proverb, Ghana |
There is no medicine to cure hatred |
There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast. Ethiopia |
There is no phrase without a double meaning |
Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant |
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana |
To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria |
To be praised is to be lost. - Kikuyu, Kenya |
To try and to fail, is not laziness |
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off |