Akan proverbs

When a shield wears out, the framework still remains.

The knot tied by a wiseman cannot be undone by a fool.

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.

The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise's back in vain.

Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.

The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges.

The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.

The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies.

The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.

The gun catridge-belt of Akowua has never been known to lack bullets.

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