Sudanese Proverbs (40 Proverbs)
- Our wasted days are the days we never laugh.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Salt comes from north, gold from south and silver from the land of Whites, but the Word of God, the famous things, histories and fairy tales, we only find them in Timbuktu.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Someone who is pointing his finger to another person is not always aware that the four remaining fingers are pointing in his direction.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- That which does the cultivating is in the stomach.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A child is a child of everyone.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A stranger does not share the monkey.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- They have taken the cow by the horns in order to milk it better.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fatted ox where there is hatred.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- We desire to bequest two things to our children--the first one is roots; the other one is wings.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Empty stomachs have no ears.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- When Allah made Sudan, he laughed.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Even if a log lies in the water for a long time, it does not become a crocodile.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- You can't feed your donkey only when you need to ride it.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- If Nakedness promises you a piece of cloth, ask him his name.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- If our feet leave the earth we no longer live in peace.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- If you do something wrong to me, I forgive you. But I know that someday God will make you hit the son of a chief on the head. Then the chief will punish you.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Let rats fight with each other.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- No one likes to eat crumbs from a feast; everyone likes to sit at the table.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Not all the trees in the forest make good firewood.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- It is sad when the elephant dies, but the whole tribe can feed on it.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- If you are wearing shoes, you don't fear the thorns.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- If a dog bites you and you don't bite him back, it will say that you have no teeth.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Even the sharpest ear cannot hear an ant singing.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Eggs and iron must not be in the same bag.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Ebb does not follow ebb -- flood is in between.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A young crocodile does not cry when he falls in the water.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A termite can do nothing to a stone save lick it.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A naked man will often laugh at someone with torn clothes.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A little shrub may grow into a tree.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A dog cannot carry its puppies on its back.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- A big chair does not make a king.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- When a hen is brooding, another hen cannot sit on her eggs.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- The soup would be none the worse for more meat.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- The poor are excused from washing with soap.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- The hand suffers at work, but the mouth still must eat.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Don't cough in a hiding place.
(Sudanese Proverb)
- Let rats shoot arrows at each other.
(Sudanese Proverb)
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