Ghanaian proverbs

If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.

There is no distinction among the common baskets made of palm branches.

If the hunter comes back with mushrooms, don't ask him how his hunt was.

Even if the old woman has no teeth, her tiger nuts remain in her own bag.

When you are rich, you are resented; when you are poor, you are despised.

A child who is to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down.

If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.

The good wife at her husband's home, the other one is at her parent's home.

Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.

Every one hates the red ant on a kola nut because he cannot eat or sell it.

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