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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.