African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- The cat may look like a lion, but that does not make it a lion.
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- The best preparation for tomorrow is to make sure today's work is superbly done.
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- That you eat in the morning passes you through the day.
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- Sunshine always follows a dark night.
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- Some birds are not meant to be caged there feathers are to blight and there meant to fly.
(African Proverb)
- Roots do not know what a leaf has in mind.
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- People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.
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- Only a fool believes that the clouds obscure the splendour of the moon
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- One cannot put out fire with fire.
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- No sweat, no sweet.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can't bite water.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how angry a rat may be it will be eaten by a cat.
(African Proverb)
- Music speaks louder than words.
(African Proverb)
- Man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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- Life is the beginning of death.
(African Proverb)
- Keep your friends close but remember to keep your enemies closer.
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- It's not the aroma of the soup that tells you whether it's sweet or not, but it's the tongue's taste.
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- It's always hard to convince a hungry person.
(African Proverb)
- It is only when you look down that you can see your nose.
(African Proverb)
- It is impossible to tie a knot without the thumb.
(African Proverb)
- It costs you your good spirit to steal than buying or seeking.
(African Proverb)
- If you're not thankful then you're a wizard.
(African Proverb)
- If you want to smear somebody's face with mud, be prepared to dirty your hands.
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- If you want a better tomorrow do good today.
(African Proverb)
- If you run too fast you bypass a safe place you would have hidden yourself.
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- If you hide a sick person, your lamentation alarm will only announce his death.
(African Proverb)
- If you fill your head with pride you will lack space for wisdom.
(African Proverb)
- If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
(African Proverb)
- If you are not an animal you will never find yourself in a trap.
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- If the banana pest doesn't die it will always reach at the ripe banana.
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- If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.
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- However hot the sun, it will never dry the sea.
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- He who wanders along the beach doesn't eat his rice dry.
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- He who reminds you or corrects you is better than he who slanders you.
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- He who is grown up should respect and love others.
(African Proverb)
- He who feeds the child must be allowed to lick his fingers.
(African Proverb)
- He who dies of over eating doesn't wither.
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- He is a wise man who has no worries about the things he doesn't have but he rejoices for those things that he has.
(African Proverb)
- Good music goes with good food.
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- Follow the liar right to his door.
(African Proverb)
- Every exit is an entry to somewhere.
(African Proverb)
- Even if you're rich, you cannot bury yourself.
(African Proverb)
- Eating is kinship.
(African Proverb)
- Don't seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt you may he break his neck.
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- Don't expect to be offered a chair when you are visiting a place where the chief sits on the floor.
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- Do not eat the fingers that feed you.
(African Proverb)
- Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice.
(African Proverb)
- Better to bit your tongue than biting your words.
(African Proverb)
- Be careful of what you own because what you own might eventually own you.
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- As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.
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- An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.
(African Proverb)
- All plants are our brothers and sisters and they talk to us and if we listen we can hear them.
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- A wise saying goes without say.
(African Proverb)
- A thorn under a baobab tree pricks deeper.
(African Proverb)
- A snail that doesn't crawl with its shell should be ready to die.
(African Proverb)
- A ruined people are as miserable as a dog in the house of death.
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- A picture is worth a thousand words.
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- A nice place is never yours.
(African Proverb)
- A man who never recognises is mistakes will never know peace.
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- A man is taller than every mountain he climbs.
(African Proverb)
- A lizard longs to sit down but its tail doesn't let it.
(African Proverb)
- A king is like a lake, you can't dispense him, otherwise, you risk drowning.
(African Proverb)
- A guard dog cannot watch two homes at once.
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- A gentle politician doesn't promise to build bridges where there is no water.
(African Proverb)
- A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
(African Proverb)
- A difficult journey will make you daring and harden your will.
(African Proverb)
- A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
(African Proverb)
- The eye cannot bear loads yet it can tell heavy objects from light ones.
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- The danger that threatens the hunting dog, threatens the hunter too.
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- The cat and the mouse can't be neighbors for long.
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- The best mirror of all is an old friend.
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- That you don't give birth too, you let him or her carry a stone on the head.
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- Sweet and sour walk hand in hand.
(African Proverb)
- Soldiers don't cry.
(African Proverb)
- Roaring lions kill no prey.
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- Patience over wins a lot of ill.
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- One's name remains above the grave.
(African Proverb)
- One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta in a pot.
(African Proverb)
- No sin goes unpunished.
(African Proverb)
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