African Proverbs (1906 Proverbs)
- No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.
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- No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.
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- No matter how black a cow is the milk is always white.
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- Never insult your enemy while you're laying down unless there is someone else standing by.
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- Men fall only in order to rise.
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- Life without battle is life without victory.
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- Knowledge is like a garden, if you don't cultivate it you cannot harvest it.
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- It's only when you aim at one spot that your urine foams.
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- It's better to be punished for telling the truth than to be rewarded for saying lies.
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- It is the spirit that walks a person through darkness.
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- It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become pregnant.
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- It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.
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- If you've never been to a pit latrine, you will never know that cockroach is a chief.
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- If you what the hyena to eat a person then tie on him goats ears.
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- If you want to blame the fox, then blame the hen too.
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- If you see your brother being scalped, put water on your hair.
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- If you kill time, you'll bury opportunities.
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- If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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- If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.
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- If you borrow from an eagle you will always be looking up in the sky.
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- If the needle doesn't pass, the thread doesn't follow.
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- If an insect as ever bit you when you see it, you kill it or run away.
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- I have learnt your language so I can damn you.
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- He who will be a man can be seen from how he stretches is little manhood.
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- He who says what will I do will never lack what to do.
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- A chief may have more wives than he can remember but you dare not try to share his wives with him.
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- A bird may fly off the earth and land on an anthill, but it will still be on the ground.
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- A chief in the village never sees the devil.
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- A bird doesn't forget one who killed off his feathers during the rain season.
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- A chameleon can only change its colour but never change its skin.
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- A bird doesn't alert his fellow bird that a stone is coming.
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- A centipede is not crippled by the loss of one limb.
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- A beggar's knees are supple.
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- A cat keeps its crawls inside until it meets a mouse.
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- A beautiful one hurts the heart.
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- A cat in its castle has a lion's teeth.
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- A barren woman is like a leaking pot.
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- A canoe peddler doesn't tell the crocodile he has along snout until he's crossed the river.
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- A bad wound deserves strong medicine.
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- A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck.
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- A bad habit is like fire you can't play with it and expect not to get burnt.
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- A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly.
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- A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food.
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- A bush that doesn't rotate baskets must not grow mushrooms.
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- A bachelor's wife doesn't have ears.
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- A boy may cry; but a man as to conceal his pain.
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- A bachelor should always spend minimum time with a friend's wife.
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- A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
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- A bottle that believes it's cracked to smile it will end up on the dustbin.
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- A baby on its mother's back doesn't know the journey is long.
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- A child doesn't belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the ancestors.
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- A blind person knows his environment more than a visitor with eyes.
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- A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles.
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- A bird with fire on its tail burns its own nest.
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- A child among elders converses with its ears.
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- A bird that prays for rain will find its self soaked.
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- A chief should not create a new law when he is angry.
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- A bird that flies off the earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground.
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- You can tell ripe corn by its look.
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- When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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- Treat your guest as a guest for two days -- then on the third day give him a hoe.
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- The water can only flow thanks to the well.
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- The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks.
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- The best morsels are never given to a beggar.
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- One who does what he says is not a coward.
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- If you're going home, you don't get wet.
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- If a man makes soup of his tears, ask him not for broth.
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- He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
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- Don't show a hyena how well you can bite.
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- An elephant does not die from one broken rib.
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- A lie has many variations, the truth none.
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- You can only know the fleas in the bed you have slept in.
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- The calf is not afraid of the mother's horns.
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- Travel and you will see them, sit and they will come to you.
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- The viper assumes the colors of his surroundings.
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- The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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- That which is exceptionally good is a forerunner of something bad.
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- Nothing wipes your tears away but your own hand.
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- If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son.
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- If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.
(African Proverb)
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