30 Akan Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies.
 - 22. The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.
- 23. The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise's back in vain.
- 24. There is nothing wrong with learning from hindsight.
- 25. When a shield wears out, the framework still remains.
- 26. When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them.
- 27. When you go to a town and you see the chief of the town is in handcuffs, you do not ask whether everything is alright in that town.
- 28. Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
- 29. You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear.
- 30. You do not need a big stick to break a cock's head.
| |
|
| Quotes by Power Quotations |