African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- A short person touches where he can reach.
(African Proverb)
- A rat stinks, but it has its own home.
(African Proverb)
- A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.
(African Proverb)
- A man's in-law is his spirit.
(African Proverb)
- A man who after his dying speech doesn't die, bears the same guilt.
(African Proverb)
- A man can't challenge his spirit in a wrestling match.
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- A lazy man plants on a mad bark as an excuse for not planting.
(African Proverb)
- A hungry calf cannot frisk happily over another with a full stomach.
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- A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out.
(African Proverb)
- A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
(African Proverb)
- A dog you don't feed will never heed your call.
(African Proverb)
- A cowardly hyena lives longer.
(African Proverb)
- The fish that dirties the water will forever swim in dirty water.
(African Proverb)
- The dog never minds not to laugh.
(African Proverb)
- The cock that loses its pace time of cockadoodle should be dressed otherwise it will misguide you.
(African Proverb)
- The bravery of a lion doesn't protect it from the spear of a hunter.
(African Proverb)
- The arrow that missed the head of its target will never hit the tail.
(African Proverb)
- Tears never flow in the house of a coward.
(African Proverb)
- Sometimes the spirits speaks for you and sometimes the spirits makes you speak.
(African Proverb)
- Shall we kill a snake and carry it in our hand when we have a bag for putting long things in?
(African Proverb)
- Quiet people are like still water their deep.
(African Proverb)
- Only the owner can free his home from mice.
(African Proverb)
- One only realises the importance of a well when the water dries up.
(African Proverb)
- Of what good is giving birth when later there regrets of disrespect.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how well tamed a lion, it will one day go back to the bush.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how much milk a cow has, you cannot milk butter from it.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how far you have walked in the wrong direction certainly you have to turn back and take the right direction.
(African Proverb)
- Never lose heart because whatever is hot must in the end turn cold.
(African Proverb)
- Milk and honey have different colours, but they share the same house peacefully.
(African Proverb)
- Living near a lake doesn't mean you eat fish whenever you need.
(African Proverb)
- Language is not plain.
(African Proverb)
- It's the orator's wit to make a story appear old.
(African Proverb)
- It's better to eat pepper and be happy than to eat honey and be sad.
(African Proverb)
- It is when one holds the sacrificial lamb that he begins to seek the gods.
(African Proverb)
- It is not the things in the soup that I am afraid of but perhaps the person I am eating with.
(African Proverb)
- It is better to be kind to our neighbors than to cross the world to offer incense to our ancestors.
(African Proverb)
- In a strange land one should always move near one's kinsmen.
(African Proverb)
- If your husband has many wives, the only sure way for him into you're the bedroom is through a delicious meal.
(African Proverb)
- If you want to eat a monkey, don't look in its eyes.
(African Proverb)
- If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
(African Proverb)
- If you live in a glasshouse you should not throw stones.
(African Proverb)
- If you have a dog to worship you, you must have a cat to ignore you.
(African Proverb)
- If you decide to dress up a lizard you should count for its tail.
(African Proverb)
- If you cannot moan in a true cultural manner then it means your laughing.
(African Proverb)
- If the sun said it had power over the moon then let it come and shine at night.
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- If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
(African Proverb)
- If a bachelor who uses firewood for cooking runs away in the morning to avoid removing the ash; he will have to deal with it when he comes back.
(African Proverb)
- Him with a bold head knows how to protect it through thorns.
(African Proverb)
- He who swallows an old man vomits grey hair.
(African Proverb)
- He who knows that he has enough is rich.
(African Proverb)
- He who has got experience can milk a running cow.
(African Proverb)
- He who doesn't know how a snake smells shouldn't walk into the forest.
(African Proverb)
- He who asks you to converse ends up telling others that you're shouting.
(African Proverb)
- Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
(African Proverb)
- Generosity has its disadvantages.
(African Proverb)
- Every time an old man dies it is as if a library has burnt down.
(African Proverb)
- Even two friendly dogs cannot share a single bone.
(African Proverb)
- Even boiled water can extinguish a fire.
(African Proverb)
- Don't water your friend's garden when yours is full of weeds.
(African Proverb)
- Don't look at the visitor's face but at his stomach.
(African Proverb)
- Do not throw away the oars before the boat reaches the shore.
(African Proverb)
- Death is a thief.
(African Proverb)
- Book stands by itself and experience stands by itself.
(African Proverb)
- Before you begin to trade in blame look in the mirror.
(African Proverb)
- At a hunting expedition you cannot apportion the meat before you kill the animal.
(African Proverb)
- An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
(African Proverb)
- An egg shouldn't be deceived by the hardness of its shell; it cannot challenge a stone in a fight.
(African Proverb)
- A woman who runs holding her breast has got nothing pursuing her.
(African Proverb)
- A village without the elderly is like a well without water.
(African Proverb)
- A spiritual leader is able to see the past, present and the future.
(African Proverb)
- A short man is not a boy.
(African Proverb)
- A rat never goes near a cat's celebration venue.
(African Proverb)
- A person is what he eats.
(African Proverb)
- A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
(African Proverb)
- A man should not, out of pride and etiquette, swallow his phlegm.
(African Proverb)
- A man and a goat can be friends but it would be foolishness for the goat to pay the first visit.
(African Proverb)
- A lazy fly cannot have a taste of a fresh wound.
(African Proverb)
- A house is for a voyage but a tomb is for eternity.
(African Proverb)
- A good leader was once a good follower.
(African Proverb)
- A fool and his money is one big party.
(African Proverb)
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