28 Sayings of Sierra Leonean Origin

1. "Invite people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Only a monkey understands a monkey." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Even though chickens don't wash, their eggs are still white." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "A hundred aunts are not the same as one mother." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "A cow must graze where she is tied." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "An orange never bears a lime." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "A big fish is caught with big bait." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Proverbs are the children of experience." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "To try and fail is not laziness." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "However full the house, the hen finds a corner to lay in." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "It is the wandering dog that finds the old bone." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Death is the key that will open a miser's coffers." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "The cow must graze where she is tied." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "He who upsets something should know how to put it back again." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "A paddle here, a paddle there, the canoe stays still." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "A black cow also gives white milk." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "An elephant's head is no load for a child." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Sweet rice is eaten quickly." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "The elephant's head is no load for a child." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "It is better to be loved than feared." (Sierra Leonean Sayings) Click to tweet