137 Sayings of Ghanaian Origin

1. "One falsehood spoils a thousand truths." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "If you want to speak to God, tell it to the wind." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Hunger is felt by slave and king alike." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "It is the fool's sheep that break loose twice." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "A child who knows how to wash his hands dines with the elders." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "It is not everybody who is awake when the rain falls at night." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "A child who asks questions does not become a fool." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "What the cat sees and turns its eyes away from, the dog sees and barks at." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Loving someone who does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Much roaming about deprived the male rat of its fat." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "If you take your tongue to the pawnshop, you can't redeem it later." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "The parrot that knows how precious its feathers are does not build its nest by the roadside." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "There is bound to be a knot in a very long string." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "If we knew where death resided, we would never stay there." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "The stomach has no holiday." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "A slave does not choose his master." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "One cannot both feast and become rich." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "The poor man's main tool is his tongue with which he defends himself." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "No one tests the depth of a river with both feet." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Monkeys play by sizes." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "If power can be bought then sell your mother to get it." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path to begin a trail." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "You cannot kill an elephant with bullets of wax." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense. When you are inside you see that each tree has its own position to occupy." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "The moon moves slowly, but it gets across the town." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "If things are getting easier, maybe you're headed downhill." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Don't cry over spilt milk." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "If you store saliva in your mouth for too long, it turns into water." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Money is sharper than a sword." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "Only someone else can scratch your back for you." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "When you are sitting in your own house, you don't learn anything. You must get out of your house to learn." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Only the fool points at his origins with his left hand." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "When a man is coming toward you, you need not say, “Come here”." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "You cannot hide behind your finger." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "You must act as if it is impossible to fail." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Marriage is like a groundnut, you have to crack them to see what is inside." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Truth is a cure." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "In the presence of the head, the knee does not wear a hat." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "If a mad man snatches your cover cloth from you, you do not follow him naked to retrieve it." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "When a woman is hungry, she says, “Roast something for the children that they may eat”." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Yam is sweet, but one should eat it in the normal way, lest swallowing chokes him." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "A person who rides a bicycle or horse does not know that the ground is hot." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "Death has the key to open the miser's chest." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "If you do not spare a day to fix a door to your room, you will waste three years searching for your money but you will never find it." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "I call gold; it does not answer. I call cloth; it does not answer. It is the human being that counts." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "A lizard that knows how to hide grows to become a crocodile." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "If you find no fish, you have to eat bread." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "He who is guilty has much to say." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "Looking somewhere is better than not to look anywhere at all." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Let not what you cannot do tear you from what you can do." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "The antelope says that if you stay at one spot in the forest for far too long, you will become thirsty." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "You can always buy her back later." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "Rain wets a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "Even though we carry gunpowder on our head, we still smoke a pipe." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "We speak to the wise man in proverbs and not in plain language." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "In a community of beggars, stealing and not begging, is considered a crime." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "A woman is like a blanket, If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "It is a bad child who does not take advice." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "If you look at a king's mouth, you will never think that he ever sucked his mother's breast." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "It is the wife who knows her husband." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "If you are on the road to nowhere, find another road." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Even though the old man is strong and hearty, he will not live forever." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "The bitter heart eats its owner." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "If the hunter comes back with mushrooms, don't ask him how his hunt was." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "If you've not been on someone else's farm, you cannot say that you're the only true farmer." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "It is no shame at all to work for money." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "It's the fool's sheep that breaks loose twice." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "If it is not the will of God, you will not die." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "He who cannot dance will say, “The drum is bad”." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "The rich man may wear old clothes." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "Even though the eye is blind, it still contains sleep." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "If a woman gets rich she changes into a man." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "Patience is good, but hard to practice." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "The child who has not traveled anywhere before believes that his mother is the best cook." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "No one boasts of what belongs to another." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "The monkey says that yawning is contagious." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "Whatever is destined to succeed knows no failure." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "The old woman cares for the chicken and the chicken cares for the old woman." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "It is when someone loves you that he comes to your house." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one day." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "When a bachelor goes to sleep, he does not hide his entire body in the mosquito net." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "A crab does not beget a bird." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "The wealth of the greedy ultimately goes to the community." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "Hate has no medicine." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "A knife does not know who is its master." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "One lie ruins a thousand truths." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "No one points out God to a child." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "If you want someone more knowledgeable than yourself to identify a bird you do not first remove the feathers." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "He who tests the depth of a stream with both feet must be prepared to swim." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "If you blame the cat, you must blame the mouse as well." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "When I fall and you fall, it is fair play." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "Although the snake does not fly it catches the bird whose home is in the sky." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "One finger cannot pick a stone." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "If you are in hiding, don't light a fire." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "The cockerel drinking water raises its head to God in thankfulness." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

125. "When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

126. "Nobody is shamed twice." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

127. "A poor person has no friends." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

128. "One pole cannot build a house." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

129. "One tree cannot be a forest." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

130. "The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

131. "The poor man and the rich man do not play together." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

132. "No condition is permanent." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

133. "The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

134. "If one does not know, another man teaches him." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

135. "The chicken also knows when it's morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

136. "An army is driven back by courage and not by insults, however many." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

137. "No-one points his left finger at his hometown." (Ghanaian Sayings) Click to tweet