Ashanti proverbs

When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: ""Come here.""

If you understand the beginning well, the end will not trouble you.

Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path to begin the trail.

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.

It is difficult to throw a stone at a lizard that is clinging to a pot.

Even though the old man is strong and hearty, he will not live forever.

When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him.

When rain beats on a leopard it wets it, but rain does not wash out its spots.

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

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

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