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.