Ghanaian proverbs

Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

If two selfish young men sit next to a pot of water, the water spills out on the ground.

When a woman is hungry, she says, ""Roast something for the children that they may eat.""

The witch is going! The witch is going! but if you are not a witch you don't turn around to look.

Even though the peel of the palm nut has no pulpy substance in it, it is stripped off all the same.

The witch kills ""he ate and he did not give me"", but she does not kill, ""he gave me too little.""

Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.

If the building of a nest were easy, would the little ""apatipers"" bird roost in the fork of a tree?

When women increase in wealth, they are silent. But when they fall into trouble, the whole world gets to know.

A woman is like a blanket: If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold.

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