Akan (Twi) Proverbs-gctid23824

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As¢m a woka no gyina h¡ tw¢n wo.

The word that you speak stands and waits for you.

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Obi nto ntasu nto fam mfa n'ano mfa.
  Someone does not spit onto the ground and use his mouth to lick it up.
  (An exhortation for people not to take back their words.)

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Obi mp¢ a, obi p¢.

If someone doesn't like, someone (else) likes

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Worep¢ ¡baa aware a, wonto mmaa ho pe.

If you want to marry a woman, you don't speak disparagingly about women.

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Obi d¡ wo a, wo nso d¡ no bi.

If someone loves you then you (should) also love them some.

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Nsuo a ¢d¡ wo na ¢k¡ w'ahina mu.

It is the water that loves you that goes into your water pot.

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Obi tan wo a, ma ¡nya wo atany¢.

If someone hates you then let them obtain a good reason to.

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¡tan nni aduro.

Hatred has no medicine (cure).

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Wok¡ kuro bi mu a, dwom a ¢h¡ mmofra to no, w¡n mpanin na ¢to gyaa w¡n.
When you visit a town and hear children singing (songs) they are the songs which their elders sang and passed on to them.

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¡yere pa sen sika.
  A good wife is more valuable than money.

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Akwadaa nsu mpo a, y¢ma no nufuo

Even if a child doesn't cry, we give him/her the breast

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F¢f¢ na ¢y¢ f¢ nti na ¡baa tu mmirika a, ¡so ne nufuo, na ¢ny¢ s¢ ¢b¢te at¡ nti.

It is because of beauty that when a woman runs, she holds her breasts, it's not because they will tear off and fall.

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Obi mfa f¢re¢ nkyea ¡kwatani.

  One should not shake the hand of a leper out of deference.

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Ade¢ hia ¡denkyem a, ¡didi asuo mu; ¡nnidi kwae¢ mu.
   
  Even when the crocodile is in need, it finds its meals in the river, not in the forest.

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Amaniko: "Y¢ko a, y¢keka nwi so, na y¢ntutu ase¢."
  A fight among kinsmen: "We only bite off hairs but do not uproot them."