It’s better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.

More African Proverbs

• Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.
• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
• If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try spending the night with a mosquito.
• A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
• No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.
• Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
• He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you.
• Love is a despot who spares no one.
• A wise person will always find a way.
• The wise man never takes a step too long for his leg.
• When one is in love, a mountain top becomes a flat field.
• Seeing is different than being told.
• Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
• Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.
• A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
• Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.
• A small house will hold a hundred friends.
• Even the lion protects himself against flies.
• 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.