Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.

More African Proverbs

• Even the maid has a family.
• If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
• He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself.
• If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.
• Don’t set sail on someone else’s star.
• A wise man fills his head before emptying his mouth.
• When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.
• If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
• Love is a painkiller.
• Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
• If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.
• He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
• No medicine exists that can cure hatred.
• Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
• Examine what is said, not who is speaking.
• The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
• Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit.
• Love doesn’t listen to rumors.
• If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
• No man can outwit their ancestors.
• A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
• Wisdom does not come overnight.
• We desire to bequeath two things to our children; the first one is roots, the other one is wings.
• Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls.
• Your body is a temple of knowledge.
• When a bitter woman takes over the house, the family she rules is doomed.
• Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.