African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- If you put a bone in the dog's mouth it doesn't bark.
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- If you haven't done anything evil then you shouldn't be worried about devils knocking on your door.
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- If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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- If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.
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- If you are digging a pit for your enemy, don't make it too deep, for you may fall into it.
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- If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.
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- If a man rides on the back of a tiger, he should never be surprised if he ends up in its tummy.
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- How ever big a rat is, it can't threaten a cat.
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- He who wakes up early in the morning receives a bundle of blessings.
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- He who pursues a hatched bird teaches it how to fly.
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- He who pelts another with paddles asks for stones in return.
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- He who is first to receive something forgets when his friend will receive their share.
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- He who fears fire cannot be a leader.
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- He who defects on the way finds flies on his way back.
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- He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
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- Going slowly doesn't stop one arriving.
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- Firewood yields ash.
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- Every bad person deserves a bad problem.
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- Even if you remain an island you must still be friendly to the sea.
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- Eating a lot does not satisfy greediness.
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- Don't see animals around the village and say there is nobody to hunt them.
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- Don't ever try to give a spear to a former mad man.
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- Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.
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- Call kinship with the hyena, and all hyenas are your friend.
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- Better to aim at comfort' than at luxury.
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- Be careful of the words you say each day, make sure each is nice and sweet, because may be in the days ahead, there will be some you'll have to eat.
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- Anything with a beginning also has an end.
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- An endless war shames even a hero.
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- All great truths begins as blasphemies.
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- A wise person must know the language, sayings, and tales of his society.
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- A talkative person is a traveller when he is tired, he keeps quiet.
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- A small shrub may grow into a tree.
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- A rock in the middle of the sea is never afraid of the rain.
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- A person's cleverness is not shown by how many words he utters at once but how he utters them.
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- A newly committed crime awakens sleeping ones.
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- A man who marries an outcast is like rain wasted in the forest.
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- A man is obliged to beat his own chest when he has no drum.
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- A lizard can't be a snake even without its limbs.
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- A juicy bone is useless to a dog with no teeth.
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- 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.
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- A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
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- A difficult journey will make you daring and harden your will.
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- A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
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- The evil everyone does lives after him or her.
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- The cultivator is alone, but those who eat are many.
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- The canary that dances along the bush path must have its drummer in the nearby bush.
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- The best dancer comes from the sitting lounge.
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- That which is about to die doesn't hear the drum beating.
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- Sudden frightening occurrence knows no brave person.
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- Society is like a pot it can't carry water when its broken.
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- Respect yourself, and you will get it back.
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- Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
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- One with more firewood than you, has more ash than you.
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- Once you've started a competition, you must carry it to the finish.
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- No problem is settled until it is settled right.
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- No matter how rich a man may be he cannot sleep on two beds at ago.
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- No matter how hungry the vulture, it will never eat grass.
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- No man can outwit the ancestors.
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- Moving water makes stagnant water move.
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- Man invented language to satisfy is deep need to complain.
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- Life is like shopping in a market; when you finish, you go home.
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- It's wise to do what you're born to do.
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- It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
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- It takes a whole village to raise a child.
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- It is only the early risers who succeed in filling their baskets with white ants.
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- It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.
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- Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
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- If you're not at the war front its easy to assume we didn't put up a good fight.
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- If you want to remove a mountain start with one stone at a time.
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- If you wait for the roasted liver to cool it will get cold in someone else's mouth.
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- If you point one accusing finger at others, three fingers will point at you.
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- If you haven't any sheep you won't know that a fox is a wild animal.
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- If you don't want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don't attend the monkey dance.
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- If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live in the mad.
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- If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?
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- If someone is walking towards you, you don't need to tell him If someone is walking towards you, you don't need to tell him "come here."
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- If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
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- How come that when I lost my sheep and could not find it, I was questioned; but the hyena who was found with the sheepskin is not questioned.
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- He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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