12 Beninese Proverbs
1. A great affair covers up a small matter.
2. Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
3. Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
4. Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
5. Many words do not fill a basket.
6. Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
7. The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.
8. The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
9. There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.
10. What you give you get, ten times over.
11. Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.
12. Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
12 Beninese Proverbs