African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- Good actions are nourishment for youths, much more than words.
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- Those who waste time only hurt themselves.
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- You see this thing called blood there is nothing like it.
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- You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.
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- You cannot send a goat to rescue a lamb from a loin's attack.
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- You cannot amputate your genitals for being impotent.
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- You are not born a leader, you become one.
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- Wisdom is like a good skin bag every man carries his own.
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- Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg, it is the egg that suffers.
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- Where comes a great man he doesn't come alone.
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- When you cry for rain, you cry for mud too.
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- When the head of a snake is cut off, the rest of his body is an ordinary rope.
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- When one finger is swollen it affects the others.
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- When a rat swims with a frog, it dies of cold.
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- When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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- What you cook with dislike is what your bound to eat.
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- What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely finish is money.
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- Vision quest should be continuous.
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- You may say the cassava in your mouth is bitter, but it is only looking at the next one.
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- You can't walk before you can crawl.
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- You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.
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- You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.
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- You are invited to join the hunt when your nets are in evidence.
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- Wine is the drunkard's blanket.
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- Wherever something stands, another thing stands beside it.
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- Whenever something stands, another thing stands besides it.
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- When you chase a fellow man reserve the strength to switch you back when he recharges and turns.
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- When the head is big it cannot avoid punches.
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- When many trees fall on top of one another, a wise man removes the one on top first.
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- When a rat mocks a cat then you know there is a hole nearby.
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- When a cow is crying, a dog is making a party.
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- What will kill a dog first blocks its nose.
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- What is put in a basket before going to the market won't be the same thing returned in the basket.
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- Villages that posses culture will never perish even though they may be small.
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- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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- You can't tell the colour of somebody's cloth from his shadow.
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- You cannot name a child that is not born.
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- You can take a goat to the river, but you can't make it drink the water.
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- You always pick the fruits of what you plant.
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- Wine is not for the wrenched.
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- Where you've ever left without a quarrel is where you're about to return.
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- Whenever lightening strikes, everyone runs to cover his or her own head.
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- 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.
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- When the eye sees you then your bound to go for duty.
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- When kings lose direction they become servants.
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- When a new saying gets to the land of empty men they lose their heads over it.
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- When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared dinner for himself.
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- What we get takes away our troubles.
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- What is past is gone, what is hoped for is absent, for you is the hour in which you are.
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- Used recklessly then s/he must have inherited the misused property.
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- You've seen many Komo, but you haven't seen the wild beast.
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- You may choose your friends but not your neighbours.
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- You can't spread a net to catch a bird that is watching you.
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- You cannot lock up science in one head.
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- You can stay a thousand miles away from home and still see inside.
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- You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.
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- Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know it.
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- Where your mother is born, you can't call anyone a child.
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- When you're undressed then you're ready for anything.
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- When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
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- When the drummers change their beats the dancers must also change their Steps.
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- When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
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- When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.
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- When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.
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- What we do with pity another would call it strength.
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- What is in the yams that a knife doesn't know.
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- Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.
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- Your previous lies will contradict your future truths.
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- You may as well die fighting the enemy than live exploited and be persecuted by him.
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- You can't lead anyone further than you have gone yourself.
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- You cannot hide your nakedness from your bath bucket.
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- You can share the same bed but you can't share the same dream.
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- Worry is like a rocking chair it swings you back and forth and it takes you nowhere.
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- Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love.
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- Where you won't feast from, you sense it sooner than later.
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- When you're a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what gods should be appeased.
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- When weeds invade the land, it means the owner is absent.
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- When the cockroach decides to make the cock its friend it must be ready to end up in the cock's stomach.
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- When cats are hairdressers, rats will always go around with uncombed hair.
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- When a naked person promises you cloth beware.
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