Once you carry your own water, you’ll remember every drop.

More African Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.