Friday, February 19, 2021
African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- Good actions are nourishment for youths, much more than words.
(African Proverb)
- Those who waste time only hurt themselves.
(African Proverb)
- Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine is supposed to be your food.
(African Proverb)
- You can't inject new ideas in a man's head by cutting it off.
(African Proverb)
- You can never sow rice and expect to harvest maize.
(African Proverb)
- Who takes a hut, also takes the rats and cockroaches.
(African Proverb)
- When your house is on fire you don't choose who to help you put out the fire.
(African Proverb)
- When the bells are in water they can't make any sound.
(African Proverb)
- When a man curses his own child it is a terrible thing.
(African Proverb)
- What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger.
(African Proverb)
- You may choose your friends but not your neighbours.
(African Proverb)
- You cannot lock up science in one head.
(African Proverb)
- You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.
(African Proverb)
- Where your mother is born, you can't call anyone a child.
(African Proverb)
- When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
(African Proverb)
- When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
(African Proverb)
- When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.
(African Proverb)
- What is in the yams that a knife doesn't know.
(African Proverb)
- You do not beat a drum with one finger.
(African Proverb)
- You cannot beat a child to take away its tears.
(African Proverb)
- Wise sayings are men.
(African Proverb)
- Where many are gathered, there is much to be said.
(African Proverb)
- When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.
(African Proverb)
- When a slippery ground lies ahead do not laugh at those who have fallen.
(African Proverb)
- What you do with injustice often backfires.
(African Proverb)
- Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.
(African Proverb)
- Your feet will take you away from home but your stomach will bring you back.
(African Proverb)
- You can't hide the smoke when the house is burning.
(African Proverb)
- You can leave without a friend but never without a neighbour.
(African Proverb)
- Who owns too much, remains unhappy.
(African Proverb)
More African Proverbs (Based on Topics)
Man - Nature - Wisdom & Knowledge - Water - Birds - Friendship - Dogs - Life - Money & Wealth - Lions - Time - Mothers - People - Fool - Fire - War & Peace - Truth - Cats - God - View All African Proverbs
Buy books and product about African @ Amazon