If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try spending the night with a mosquito.

More African Proverbs

• 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.
• Children are the reward of life.
• If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do no harm.
• A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
• Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.
• When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.
• There is no fool who is disowned by his family.
• African Proverbs About Love
• Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
• When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.