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When a naked person promises you cloth beware.
(African Proverb)
When a chick ignores its mother's warning, the eagle grasps it for a meal.
(African Proverb)
What use to cover a mend in the Mona Lisa with a crayon.
(African Proverb)
What is in a heart of a sober man is on the tongue of a drunkard.
(African Proverb)
Until the snake is dead do not drop the stick.
(African Proverb)
Your mother is the bodyguard of your father.
(African Proverb)
You have to heal the wound before it ignores the medicine.
(African Proverb)
You can't jump a swamp before you reach it.
(African Proverb)
You cannot lean on air.
(African Proverb)
You can see the fowl's innerness when the wind is blowing.
(African Proverb)
Work is good, as long as you don't forget to live.
(African Proverb)
Whoever stands in need of honey should not be afraid of bees.
(African Proverb)
Where you killed from is not where you eat from.
(African Proverb)
When your opponents are you're friends there must be problems ahead.
(African Proverb)
When water stays for long it stinks.
(African Proverb)
When the cock craws the heart of a debtor skips a bit.
(African Proverb)
When bad luck chooses you as a companion, even a ripe banana can remove your teeth.
(African Proverb)
When a monkey doesn't get a banana, he eats chillies.
(African Proverb)
When a cat wants to eat its own kitten it accuses them of smelling like rats.
(African Proverb)
What the gods keep for the poor, no man can destroy.
(African Proverb)
What grows quickly, dies quickly.
(African Proverb)
Until the rotten tooth is pulled out cautiously, the mouth will not have rest.
(African Proverb)
Too much happiness brings tears in our eyes.
(African Proverb)
To a man who only has a hammer in his tool kit, every problem looks like a nail.
(African Proverb)
Those who judge before they know the facts will learn to shed tears.
(African Proverb)
There is no point in living if we cannot take back our culture.
(African Proverb)
The world has changed dramatically.
(African Proverb)
The water in your well can be very hot, but it will never cook your rice.
(African Proverb)
The thread follows the needle.
(African Proverb)
The spirits are the strength and counsel to the living.
(African Proverb)
The restless grasshopper only finds rest in the gizzard of a bird.
(African Proverb)
The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.
(African Proverb)
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
(African Proverb)
The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.
(African Proverb)
The key that unlocks is also the key that locks
(African Proverb)
The hand assists the foot, but the foot cannot do the same.
(African Proverb)
The fox must be chased away first after that the hen might be warned against wandering into the bush.
(African Proverb)
Until a crab finds itself in a very hot pot of soup, it will never understand that water can be both cold and hot.
(African Proverb)
Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to break.
(African Proverb)
Time lost is lost forever.
(African Proverb)
Those who have not crossed the river yet should not laugh at those who are drowning.
(African Proverb)
There is no need to point out the obvious.
(African Proverb)
The world does not make promises to anybody.
(African Proverb)
The voice that comes to borrow is more humble than the voice that comes to sake payment.
(African Proverb)
The teeth that stink together are the ones to bite the meat.
(African Proverb)
The sparrow says: The sparrow says: "I have not eaten..
(African Proverb)
The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.
(African Proverb)
The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
(African Proverb)
The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered down.
(African Proverb)
The mind of a fool is like a broken pot it will hold no wisdom.
(African Proverb)
The insect that eats the leaf is under the leaf.
(African Proverb)
The grindstones can neither be used as a stool nor a headrest.
(African Proverb)
The forest not only hides man's enemies but its full of man's medicine, healing power and food.
(African Proverb)
Unless the broken tooth is thrown out the mouth will continue to chew with caution.
(African Proverb)
To whom to much is given we require too much from him.
(African Proverb)
Time is a teacher.
(African Proverb)
Those who have friends in the kitchen don't starve.
(African Proverb)
There is no day that goes without the moon and no day that goes without sunrise and sunset.
(African Proverb)
The world about us.
(African Proverb)
The visitor who goes away without eating never comes back.
(African Proverb)
The teeth that cannot move in unison cannot bit a piece of meat.
(African Proverb)
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes didn't have tears.
(African Proverb)
The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.
(African Proverb)
The one you minimise could be eating meat everyday.
(African Proverb)
The mouth that speaks a lot is liable to hunt a friend.
(African Proverb)
The man, who eats alone, dies alone.
(African Proverb)
The hyena sleeps with the sheep.
(African Proverb)
The greatness of man's male organ don't call it an hydro cell.
(African Proverb)
The fly had life even before the dog had its wounds.
(African Proverb)
United we are a rock, divided we are sand.
(African Proverb)
To travel is to see, to return is to talk.
(African Proverb)
Time is a healer.
(African Proverb)
Those who give birth to nincompoop it's not their wish.
(African Proverb)
There is no better mirror than a best friend.
(African Proverb)
The words you say to tell the truth are as important as the decision to be truthful.
(African Proverb)
The venemous snake cannot be seen in the Savannah.
(African Proverb)
The tears of a man flow into the stomach.
(African Proverb)
The song sang by men when going to hunt is not the same song they sing when they come back.
(African Proverb)
The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.
(African Proverb)
The one whose foot you heal kicks you with it.
(African Proverb)
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