South African Proverbs (64 Proverbs)
- Once you have found your first diamond, you will never give up looking.
(South African Proverb)
- Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.
(South African Proverb)
- One who enters a hut does not smell the termites roasting in the boiler.
(South African Proverb)
- When a bird builds its nest it uses the feathers of other birds.
(South African Proverb)
- people are people through other people.
(South African Proverb)
- When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them backs down or lies down.
(South African Proverb)
- Roasted locusts eaten at night bring dangerous dreams.
(South African Proverb)
- When you climb the mountain and reach the top, do not forget the branches shrubs that helped your footing.
(South African Proverb)
- The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now.
(South African Proverb)
- When you have touched a woman, you have struck a rock.
(South African Proverb)
- The drums of war are the drums of hunger.
(South African Proverb)
- Where there is honey, there are bound to be ants.
(South African Proverb)
- The dupe who takes possession of a lame ox is seldom recognized as a fool.
(South African Proverb)
- The foot pains in sympathy with the toe.
(South African Proverb)
- The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like the moonlight.
(South African Proverb)
- A termite grows up in dry wood, and yet comes to maturity.
(South African Proverb)
- The greatest death is laughter.
(South African Proverb)
- An Elder does not break wind in public, but in a latrine.
(South African Proverb)
- The impatient person eats goat; the one who hesitates eats beef.
(South African Proverb)
- By pounding the dough the bread will rise.
(South African Proverb)
- The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not.
(South African Proverb)
- It is hunger that killed the man with many wives.
(South African Proverb)
- The poor man's proverb is never quoted.
(South African Proverb)
- It is the snake that smells the rat.
(South African Proverb)
- The strength of the crocodile is in the water.
(South African Proverb)
- Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced.
(South African Proverb)
- The woman who always complains and is never satisfied with anything is like an annoying flea on the foot.
(South African Proverb)
- No one drinks medicine on behalf of a sick person.
(South African Proverb)
- Two wives, two pots of poison.
(South African Proverb)
- When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too.
(South African Proverb)
- If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
(South African Proverb)
- When you have a lot to do, start with a meal.
(South African Proverb)
- If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.
(South African Proverb)
- When the elephant is slain all the tribes gather together to eat of it.
(South African Proverb)
- Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day.
(South African Proverb)
- What the poor man says is not listened to.
(South African Proverb)
- He! He! He! You begin with the meal before the water is boiling!
(South African Proverb)
- The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.
(South African Proverb)
- He who has no intelligence is happy with it.
(South African Proverb)
- The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
(South African Proverb)
- He has not married a woman for she is the equal of a man.
(South African Proverb)
- The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
(South African Proverb)
- He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion.
(South African Proverb)
- The pool has dried up, and the fish is in trouble.
(South African Proverb)
- Behold the iguana puffing itself out to make itself a man!
(South African Proverb)
- The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.
(South African Proverb)
- Before you milk a cow tie it up.
(South African Proverb)
- The heart is like a goat that has to be tied up.
(South African Proverb)
- The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
(South African Proverb)
- The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as a fool.
(South African Proverb)
- No stake ever grew old with the bark on.
(South African Proverb)
- No man can perfectly empty a pot with a ladle.
(South African Proverb)
- No hill without gravestones, no valley without shadows.
(South African Proverb)
- You are not great just because you say you are.
(South African Proverb)
- If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
(South African Proverb)
- A crime eats its own child.
(South African Proverb)
- A fool is a wise man's ladder.
(South African Proverb)
- Abundance does not spread; famine does.
(South African Proverb)
- Almost is not eaten.
(South African Proverb)
- As great birds die the eggs rot.
(South African Proverb)
- Even the maid has a family.
(South African Proverb)
- Old age does not announce itself.
(South African Proverb)
- Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer.
(South African Proverb)
- Walls have ears, and little pots too.
(South African Proverb)
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