African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- A fish will not live out of water but will prefer air to hot water.
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- A dog knows its master but not its master's master.
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- A corn swallowed by a fowl will never germinate in its belly.
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- The eyes that beheld the chief don't fear for a court official.
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- The dead man doesn't know the value of his coffin.
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- The cheapest way to win a person is by a smile.
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- The bird, which flaps its wings too much, will drop its feathers.
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- The animal hide can best be straightened and smoothened when still fresh.
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- Talking is cheap until you hire a lawyer to do it for you.
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- Something that doesn't talk how does it refuse.
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- Search for a friend with no faults and you will remain with no friends.
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- Pregnancy could not be covered with the hand.
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- Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.
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- One doesn't call a hyena to displine a troublesome goat.
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- Not everything on the body that swells is a boil.
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- No matter how tall a camel is, it will never get taller than the hair on its back.
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- No matter how long and winding the road might be, it will always lead you to your destination.
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- No matter how big the butterfly may be, it cannot be called a bat.
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- Never dump your old pot just because you have bought a new one.
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- Men die but words live on.
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- Life is your ability to breath out every time you breathe in.
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- Knowledge is better than wealth, you have to look after wealth, but knowledge looks after you.
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- It's only the ant that hears the whispers of the sand.
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- It's better not to rise at all than to rise and fall.
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- It is the cloth of an orphan that is often given to the guest.
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- It is no disgrace at all to work for money.
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- It is a man with a harp who should decide how he is going to sleep.
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- If you're very unkind today don't expect favours tomorrow.
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- If you were in a place you take care of it has if it where yours.
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- If you want to catch a black goat you make haste before it's dark.
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- If you see wrongdoing or evil and say nothing against it, you become its victim.
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- If you keep your head and heart going in the right direction you don't have to worry about your feet.
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- If you give a handshake to the leopard, next time he will come for an embrace.
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- If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.
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- If you befriend a mosquito it will still attack you at night.
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- If the goat rejects the grass, its belly is full.
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- If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.
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- However loud an ant shouts from the ground, no one will hear it.
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- He who wants to plant corns must make peace with the monkeys.
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- He who sacks his wife because she eats a lot will end up marrying a cannibal.
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- He who is not beaten by the sun or the rain, will eventually be beaten by the hunger.
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- He who forgets his past is lost.
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- He who doesn't clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
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- He that dines with the gods must do so with a very long spoon.
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- Good things are hot.
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- Foolhardiness made the rat try to jump over the fireplace.
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- Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
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- Even the dog leaves the market.
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- Eating what you plant is better than begging for leftovers.
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- Don't throw away your nets if you catch nothing, you never know what the gods are planning next.
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- Don't insult the dead.
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- Do not insult a crocodile while your feet are still in the water.
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- Clothes should not be made for an unborn child.
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- Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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- Be humble in making demands even when making your demands.
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- As soon as you question someone's integrity, it is a reflection of your own.
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- An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.
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- All war follow a demonstrate failure of difficulty diplomacy.
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- A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her badly and she will go wild.
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- A tree climber begins from the bottom not the top.
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- A snake can shade its skin but it still remains a snake.
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- A scared dog barks to pretend to its master but a brave dog bits to protect him.
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- A potter eats from a broken piece of his pots.
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- A parent should not give up modelling their children because the ancestors too never give up on us.
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- A man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foofoo is no longer searching for soup.
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- A man must suffer in silence.
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- A long lasting visitor grinds the wine.
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- A kinsman in trouble has to be saved, not blamed.
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- A hen's curses have never killed the eagle.
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- A goat does not always graze in the same place.
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- A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
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- A dog gives birth to a dog.
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- A cock says it's because of the situation it is faced with that it has its knees in the opposite direction.
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- The eye looking at the sun will not need an adviser before it blinks.
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- The dead are among us.
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- The cheapest way to improve your looks is to wear a smile.
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- The bird is up in the sky but its eyes are on the ground.
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- The ancestors may annoy you but don't make a mistake of annoying them back, they may annoy you forever.
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- Take what you need and leave our land the way you found it.
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- Someone who wants everything looses everything.
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