Friday, June 18, 2021
Beninese Proverbs (20 Proverbs)
- Anyone who plants a tree before they die has not lived in vain.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Blacksmiths and woodworkers will never suffer from poverty.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Every one has his place: the dead in the cemetery and the living at the table.
(Beninese Proverb)
- The tortoise is friends with the snail: those with shells keep their shells close together.
(Beninese Proverb)
- The world is a journey, the afterworld is home.
(Beninese Proverb)
- We can only speak the truth when we turn off the light.
(Beninese Proverb)
- When the mouse laughs at the car, there is a hole nearby.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Fear a silent man
(Beninese Proverb)
- Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
(Beninese Proverb)
- A great affair covers up a small matter.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.
(Beninese Proverb)
- What you give you get, ten times over.
(Beninese Proverb)
- There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.
(Beninese Proverb)
- The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
(Beninese Proverb)
- The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Many words do not fill a basket.
(Beninese Proverb)
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