Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Ghanaian Proverbs (148 Proverbs)
- A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- One palm nut cannot be peeled twice.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The responsibility of power is like holding an egg. Grasp it too tightly and it will drip through your fingers; hold it too loosely and it will drop and break.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A powerful deity is the one to whom sacrifices are offered.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the building of a nest were easy, would the little "apatipers" bird roost in the fork of a tree?
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- One strong man does not catch another strong man.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The soul of a rich man has no taboos.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A stranger dances - he does not sing.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- People working on the slope of a mountain do not look at the buttocks of one another.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the strong man has nothing else, he can at least command others.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Since the beggar would come any way, it's best to invite him first.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The witch is going! The witch is going! but if you are not a witch you don't turn around to look.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A woman is like a rat: even if it grows up in your house, it steals from you.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The "obereku" bird should be eaten hot.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The witch kills "he ate and he did not give me", but she does not kill, "he gave me too little."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A Worthy cause is worth pursuing to the end.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The army of the palm tree is its branches.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- There is no distinction among the common baskets made of palm branches.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even if the old woman has no teeth, her tiger nuts remain in her own bag.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If two selfish young men sit next to a pot of water, the water spills out on the ground.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The blacksmith in one village becomes a blacksmith's apprentice in another.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Times keep changing.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even the elephant can fan off flies with its short tail.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If you come near the river, you will hear the crab cough.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The blood soup made of one palm nut is shared in little drops.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even though the peel of the palm nut has no pulpy substance in it, it is stripped off all the same.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If you go too near your relatives, they will not respect you.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The goat says: "Nobody willingly walks to his own death."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- What people get by hard work they don't get for their neighbors.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even though the sound of the horn is not pleasant, it is still blown by a man's mouth.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If youthful pride were wealth, then every man would have had it in his lifetime.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The goat says: "They bought my mother, not I."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When a deceiving man tells you to climb a tree, tell him to climb it first. If he finds a comfortable spot you can follow him.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Every one hates the red ant on a kola nut because he cannot eat or sell it.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is not only one person who bathes in the witch's water.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The goat says: "What will come has already come."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When a man is coming toward you, you need not say, "Come here."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- He who falls victim to his enemies can expect no mercy.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The goat says: "Where there is blood, there is plenty of food."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- He who seems to be for you may be working against you.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The good wife at her husband's home, the other one is at her parent's home.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- However high you lift the kid goat, you place it gently on the ground.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When women increase in wealth, they are silent. But when they fall into trouble, the whole world gets to know.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A calf that is sucking does not bellow.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- I will get it because I can, one says with a reason.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Look to the past to help us move forward in the future.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The left hand washes the right and the right washes the left.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If an opportunity is not taken when it comes, it passes away.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- One knows even when one neighbor's bread is in the oven.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When you are rich, you are resented; when you are poor, you are despised.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one day.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The moon moves slowly, but it gets across the town.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is the wife who knows her husband.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- He who is guilty has much to say.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even though the old man is strong and hearty, he will not live forever.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When someone is already approaching, there is no need to say "Come here."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
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