The mother hen does not break its own eggs.

More African Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say.
• Where there is love, there is no darkness.
• 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.
• A bird that flies off the Earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground.
• A real family eats from the same cornmeal.
• Only a fool tests the depth of a river with no feet.
• When deed speaks, words are nothing.
• Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
• Nobody is born wise.
• If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them?