Friday, April 10, 2020
Ghanaian Proverbs (148 Proverbs)
- If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp.
(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)
- It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even if the old woman has no teeth, her tiger nuts remain in her own bag.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The blacksmith in one village becomes a blacksmith's apprentice in another.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the building of a nest were easy, would the little "apatipers" bird roost in the fork of a tree?
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The soul of a rich man has no taboos.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even the elephant can fan off flies with its short tail.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The blood soup made of one palm nut is shared in little drops.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- When women increase in wealth, they are silent. But when they fall into trouble, the whole world gets to know.
(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)
- The goat says: "Nobody willingly walks to his own death."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the strong man has nothing else, he can at least command others.
(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 calf that is sucking does not bellow.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Look to the past to help us move forward in the future.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Even though the sound of the horn is not pleasant, it is still blown by a man's mouth.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- The goat says: "They bought my mother, not I."
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.
(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 child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- One knows even when one neighbor's bread is in the oven.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
- Every one hates the red ant on a kola nut because he cannot eat or sell it.
(Ghanaian Proverb)
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