49 Ashanti Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. When a woman is hungry, she says, "Roast something for the children that they might eat."
 - 42. When rain beats on a leopard it wets it, but rain does not wash out its spots.
- 43. When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.
- 44. When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him.
- 45. When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
- 46. When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
- 47. When you go to someone else's house and the owner is squatting there on the ground, you do not ask for a stool.
- 48. Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
- 49. You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
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