When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.

More African Proverbs

• 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?
• Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.
• One day in the life of a wise man is worth a fool’s entire life.
• A united family eats from the same plate.
• Just because the lizard nods his head, doesn’t mean he’s in agreement.
• Wisdom does not come overnight.
• A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself.
• However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin.
• The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
• The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.
• Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.