More African Proverbs
- 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.
- If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a whole family.
- A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
- You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.
- To try and to fail is not laziness.
- A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man.
- Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining.
- A roaring lion kills no game.
- It is hard to cure madness that originates in the family.
- Don’t meddle with a family feud.
- Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
- One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside.
- The mother hen does not break its own eggs.
- One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
- A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies.
- Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.
- It is better to live as a lion for one day rather than years as a sheep.
- One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.
- No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.