African proverbs
African Proverbs152 proverbs“He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you.”
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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Love doesn’t listen to rumors.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb To try and to fail is not laziness.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb He who refuses to obey cannot command.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb A child is what you put into him.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin.
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MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
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Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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