African Proverbs on Birds (29 Proverbs)
- You can't spread a net to catch a bird that is watching you.
(African Proverb)
- You cannot stop planting cereals just because birds are going to feast on them.
(African Proverb)
- The sweet flying ants will never be birds.
(African Proverb)
- The restless grasshopper only finds rest in the gizzard of a bird.
(African Proverb)
- The hunter who is tracking an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.
(African Proverb)
- Though the sky belongs to the bird it can't fly when it's raining.
(African Proverb)
- If a bird does not recognise a tree, it will not rest on it.
(African Proverb)
- If a bird bills the rock then it trusts its beck.
(African Proverb)
- The corpse of a bird does not decompose in flight, but on the ground.
(African Proverb)
- The bird, which flaps its wings too much, will drop its feathers.
(African Proverb)
- By coming and going, a bird constructs its nest.
(African Proverb)
- The bird is up in the sky but its eyes are on the ground.
(African Proverb)
- Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
(African Proverb)
- The best way to catch a bird is not by scaring it away.
(African Proverb)
- A severely under paid hungry teacher in a renovated, well-equipped classroom, can perform just as well as a bird without feathers can do in a hanging, decorated cage.
(African Proverb)
- Some birds are not meant to be caged there feathers are to blight and there meant to fly.
(African Proverb)
- A restless grasshopper eventually ends up in a birds teeth.
(African Proverb)
- No one knows if a bird in flight has an egg in its stomach.
(African Proverb)
- A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.
(African Proverb)
- A feather is just a delicate thing when removed from a bird because it carries the bird everywhere in the world.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how high the bird flies, a hunter sets is trap on the ground.
(African Proverb)
- It s the discontented fish that envies the solely bird.
(African Proverb)
- It is only a mad dog that barks at a flying bird.
(African Proverb)
- It is easier to catch a bird at night than day.
(African Proverb)
- In the birds' court, a cockroach never wins his case.
(African Proverb)
- If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
(African Proverb)
- A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly.
(African Proverb)
- A bird may fly off the earth and land on an anthill, but it will still be on the ground.
(African Proverb)
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