More African proverbs
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Lovers do not hide their nakedness.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb The axe forgets but the tree remembers.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he married.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb Love doesn’t listen to rumors.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
African ProverbAfrican Proverb To try and to fail is not laziness.
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