If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

More African Proverbs

• If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
• Once you carry your own water, you’ll remember every drop.
• Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.
• The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
• A man’s ruin lies in his tongue.
• If anyone makes you laugh, it is not always because they love you.
• A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.
• However long the night, the dawn will break.
• Children are the reward of life.
• If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do no harm.
• A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
• Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.
• When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.
• There is no fool who is disowned by his family.
• African Proverbs About Love
• Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
• When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
• To love someone who doesn’t love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
• He who does not know one thing knows another
• A wise person doesn’t fall down the same hill twice.
• He who refuses to obey cannot command.
• Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
• All monkeys cannot hang from the same branch.
• It takes a village to raise a child.
• African Proverbs About Wisdom
• Having a good discussion is like having riches.