Ashanti Proverbs

When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised. Ashanti Proverbs Image

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

Two small antelopes can beat a big one. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Two small antelopes can beat a big one.

When a woman is hungry, she says, “roast something for the children that they might eat.” Ashanti Proverbs Image

When a woman is hungry, she says, “roast something for the children that they might eat.”

When a man is coming toward you, you need not say, “come here.” Ashanti Proverbs Image

When a man is coming toward you, you need not say, “come here.”

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

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

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

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

Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.

True power comes through cooperation and silence. Ashanti Proverbs Image

True power comes through cooperation and silence.

You must act as if it is impossible to fail. Ashanti Proverbs Image

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.

Force against force equals more force. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Force against force equals more force.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice. Ashanti Proverbs Image

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.

If you are in hiding, don’t light a fire. Ashanti Proverbs Image

If you are in hiding, don’t light a fire.

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. Ashanti Proverbs Image

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man. Ashanti Proverbs Image

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.

It is mr. Old-man-monkey who marries mrs. Old-woman-monkey. Ashanti Proverbs Image

It is mr. Old-man-monkey who marries mrs. Old-woman-monkey.

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

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

It’s a bad child who does not take advice. Ashanti Proverbs Image

It’s a bad child who does not take advice.

It is the fool’s sheep that break loose twice. Ashanti Proverbs Image

It is the fool’s sheep that break loose twice.

Money is sharper than a sword. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Money is sharper than a sword.

Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots.

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. Ashanti Proverbs Image

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.

One cannot both feast and become rich. Ashanti Proverbs Image

One cannot both feast and become rich.

The poor man and the rich man do not play together. Ashanti Proverbs Image

The poor man and the rich man do not play together.

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people. Ashanti Proverbs Image

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

There is no medicine to cure hatred. Ashanti Proverbs Image

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another. Ashanti Proverbs Image

What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another.

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful. Ashanti Proverbs Image

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.

When a man is wealthy he may wear an old cloth. Ashanti Proverbs Image

When a man is wealthy he may wear an old cloth.

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk. Ashanti Proverbs Image

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. Ashanti Proverbs Image

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

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

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

When you go to someone else’s house Ashanti Proverbs Image

When you go to someone else’s house

Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile Ashanti Proverbs Image

Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile

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

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

He who cannot dance will say: the drum is bad. Ashanti Proverbs Image

He who cannot dance will say: the drum is bad.

He who is guilty is the one that has much to say. Ashanti Proverbs Image

He who is guilty is the one that has much to say.

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