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Good actions are nourishment for youths, much more than words.
(African Proverb)
Those who waste time only hurt themselves.
(African Proverb)
You should know what's being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might eat a forbidden food.
(African Proverb)
You do not beat a drum with one finger.
(African Proverb)
You cannot think you could teach a fish to swim.
(African Proverb)
You cannot beat a child to take away its tears.
(African Proverb)
You ask for the ancestors' help and then help yourself.
(African Proverb)
Wise sayings are men.
(African Proverb)
White ants can do no harm to a stone.
(African Proverb)
Where many are gathered, there is much to be said.
(African Proverb)
When you give a friend a goat, you have to let go of the leash.
(African Proverb)
When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.
(African Proverb)
When one man's curse falls on a person another one breaks it.
(African Proverb)
When a slippery ground lies ahead do not laugh at those who have fallen.
(African Proverb)
When a dog cannot bite, it has a bone in its mouth.
(African Proverb)
What you do with injustice often backfires.
(African Proverb)
What kills a calf comes from the udder.
(African Proverb)
Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.
(African Proverb)
You never know a line is zigzag until you put a straight line against it.
(African Proverb)
You could destroy everything I have believed in and your father before you and his father before you.
(African Proverb)
You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
(African Proverb)
You cannot be a mouse and bat at the same time.
(African Proverb)
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
(African Proverb)
Wisdom outweighs strength.
(African Proverb)
While the sun is shining, bask in it.
(African Proverb)
Where God boils his yam that is exactly where the devil roasts his fish.
(African Proverb)
When you fight fire with fire, somebody is going to get hurt.
(African Proverb)
When the hunter returns and is holding mushrooms, don't ask him about how his hunt went.
(African Proverb)
When one hand is injured the other nurses it, when both hands are injured they nurse each other.
(African Proverb)
When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn't leak.
(African Proverb)
When a cricket is quiet, it is digging.
(African Proverb)
What you eat now comes out later.
(African Proverb)
What is tightly rapped is known by only the rapper.
(African Proverb)
War is a bad chisel with which to curve out tomorrow.
(African Proverb)
You see this thing called blood there is nothing like it.
(African Proverb)
You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.
(African Proverb)
You cannot send a goat to rescue a lamb from a loin's attack.
(African Proverb)
You cannot amputate your genitals for being impotent.
(African Proverb)
You are not born a leader, you become one.
(African Proverb)
Wisdom is like a good skin bag every man carries his own.
(African Proverb)
Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg, it is the egg that suffers.
(African Proverb)
Where comes a great man he doesn't come alone.
(African Proverb)
When you cry for rain, you cry for mud too.
(African Proverb)
When the head of a snake is cut off, the rest of his body is an ordinary rope.
(African Proverb)
When one finger is swollen it affects the others.
(African Proverb)
When a rat swims with a frog, it dies of cold.
(African Proverb)
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
(African Proverb)
What you cook with dislike is what your bound to eat.
(African Proverb)
What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely finish is money.
(African Proverb)
Vision quest should be continuous.
(African Proverb)
You may say the cassava in your mouth is bitter, but it is only looking at the next one.
(African Proverb)
You can't walk before you can crawl.
(African Proverb)
You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.
(African Proverb)
You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.
(African Proverb)
You are invited to join the hunt when your nets are in evidence.
(African Proverb)
Wine is the drunkard's blanket.
(African Proverb)
Wherever something stands, another thing stands beside it.
(African Proverb)
Whenever something stands, another thing stands besides it.
(African Proverb)
When you chase a fellow man reserve the strength to switch you back when he recharges and turns.
(African Proverb)
When the head is big it cannot avoid punches.
(African Proverb)
When many trees fall on top of one another, a wise man removes the one on top first.
(African Proverb)
When a rat mocks a cat then you know there is a hole nearby.
(African Proverb)
When a cow is crying, a dog is making a party.
(African Proverb)
What will kill a dog first blocks its nose.
(African Proverb)
What is put in a basket before going to the market won't be the same thing returned in the basket.
(African Proverb)
Villages that posses culture will never perish even though they may be small.
(African Proverb)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
(African Proverb)
You can't tell the colour of somebody's cloth from his shadow.
(African Proverb)
You cannot name a child that is not born.
(African Proverb)
You can take a goat to the river, but you can't make it drink the water.
(African Proverb)
You always pick the fruits of what you plant.
(African Proverb)
Wine is not for the wrenched.
(African Proverb)
Where you've ever left without a quarrel is where you're about to return.
(African Proverb)
Whenever lightening strikes, everyone runs to cover his or her own head.
(African Proverb)
When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.
(African Proverb)
When the eye sees you then your bound to go for duty.
(African Proverb)
When kings lose direction they become servants.
(African Proverb)
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men they lose their heads over it.
(African Proverb)
When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared dinner for himself.
(African Proverb)
What we get takes away our troubles.
(African Proverb)
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