Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
life lost school
Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
foretell future tells
Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
parties
Those who do a thing are consenting parties
dance dance-and-dancing good music
Those who can't dance say the music is no good
elephant enemy regard size though
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant
cape ghana grow happen lion though time
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana
elephant flies tail though
Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant
cannot seek
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
die leave
To leave a place is to die a little
hat
To know about the hat and the rim.
time words yesterday
Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday
die leave names people tigers
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names
catch enemies hand snake
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
itself pebble precious secretly stone thinks
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone