African

Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls.
A bird that flies off the Earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground.
Just because the lizard nods his head, doesn’t mean he’s in agreement.
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
When you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes but the monkey remains.
A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother.
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.
The wise man never takes a step too long for his leg.
If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
Children are the reward of life.
To love someone who doesn’t love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a whole family.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Don’t set sail on someone else’s star.
Examine what is said, not who is speaking.
Your body is a temple of knowledge.
A real family eats from the same cornmeal.
Wisdom does not come overnight.
True love means what’s mine is yours.
It is better to be loved than to be feared.
No person is born great. Great people become great when others are sleeping.
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
When one is in love, a mountain top becomes a flat field.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do no harm.
He who does not know one thing knows another
A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside.
A wise man fills his head before emptying his mouth.
The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
When a bitter woman takes over the house, the family she rules is doomed.
Only a fool tests the depth of a river with no feet.
A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself.
To get lost is to learn the way.
Truth should be in love and love in truth.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom.
If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try spending the night with a mosquito.
Seeing is different than being told.
Once you carry your own water, you’ll remember every drop.
A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
A wise person doesn’t fall down the same hill twice.
You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.
The mother hen does not break its own eggs.
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.
Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit.
Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.
When deed speaks, words are nothing.
However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin.
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member.
A child is what you put into him.
Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you.
A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.
He who refuses to obey cannot command.
To try and to fail is not laziness.
One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
Love doesn’t listen to rumors.
A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say.
Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he married.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers.
The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
Lovers do not hide their nakedness.
No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.
The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man.
A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies.
Love is a painkiller.
If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
Where there is love, there is no darkness.
Nobody is born wise.
The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.
If you heal the leg of a person, do not be surprised if they use it to run away.
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges, and the foolish build dams.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
A man’s ruin lies in his tongue.
There is no fool who is disowned by his family.
All monkeys cannot hang from the same branch.
Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining.
Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.
Even the maid has a family.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
No man can outwit their ancestors.
If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them?
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Tomorrow belongs to people who prepare for it today.
Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
Wisdom is wealth.
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you.
Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.
If anyone makes you laugh, it is not always because they love you.
African Proverbs About Love
It takes a village to raise a child.
A roaring lion kills no game.
It is better to live as a lion for one day rather than years as a sheep.
If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.
A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.
It’s better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.
Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.
The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?
Family must look out for family.
Love is a despot who spares no one.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
African Proverbs About Wisdom
It is hard to cure madness that originates in the family.
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.
He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself.
He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
Wisdom does not come overnight.
One day in the life of a wise man is worth a fool’s entire life.
Do not call a dog with a whip in your hand.
If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you brother.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it.
Love doesn’t rely on physical features.
A wise person will always find a way.
Even the lion protects himself against flies.
However long the night, the dawn will break.
When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
Having a good discussion is like having riches.
Don’t meddle with a family feud.
No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.
If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.
No medicine exists that can cure hatred.
We desire to bequeath two things to our children; the first one is roots, the other one is wings.
A united family eats from the same plate.
When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.
When an old man dies, a library is burned with him.
He who loves, loves you with your dirt.
Do not look where you feel. Look where you slipped.