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A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria


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Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Hold a true friend with both hands
AFRICAN PROVERB Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
PERSIAN PROVERB Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade
ARABIAN PROVERB By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree
AFRICAN PROVERB If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
AFRICAN PROVERB When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. WILSON When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
EDWARD O. WILSON Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
AFRICAN PROVERB In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater...
GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.
VIKRANT PARSAI Tall buildings have always intimidated me,
but I somehow feel comforted, by an even taller tree...
AKASH MANDAL An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
LAO TZU It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...
MIRIAM MAKEBA I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...
MIRIAM MAKEBA When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB NOTHING GROWS WELL IN THE SHADE OF A BIG TREE.
G. RAGUNATHAN. There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you wan...
PATTY STONESIFER A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Sometimes, the indefinite article 'an' seems unnecessary to me. We can use 'a' instead of 'an'. It w...
MD. ZIAUL HAQUE The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30).
BIBLE In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and ...
CHINUA ACHEBE One must talk little and listen much
AFRICAN PROVERB A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.
VIKRANT PARSAI After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the Africa...
MELES ZENAWI Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
LES BROWN All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair
CLIVE ANDERSON Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:1...
BIBLE Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
CHARLES DICKENS Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda
AFRICAN PROVERB If you want a tall shade tree, draw a line directly down from the power line and plant 30 feet back ...
KEITH TALBOT African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL Tears are best dried with your own hand
AFRICAN PROVERB Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled wit...
GURU NANAK Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buff...
LORA M. CECERE The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the ki...
AARON LEE Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of ev...
V. S. NAIPAUL Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and ...
CHINUA ACHEBE These are a lot taller students than I have had. I hope by the end of the year no one's taller than ...
ASHLEY CRISELL When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta...
AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Eth...
GILES FODEN Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of na...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Why should I keep thinking and talking about a tree my fore fathers did not plant, I can plant one n...
SEGUN OLOGE It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia
AFRICAN PROVERBS That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERBS A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia
AFRICAN PROVERBS People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje
AFRICAN PROVERBS It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
AFRICAN PROVERBS To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide s...
EDWARD ABBEY An ant may well destroy a whole dam.
CHINESE PROVERBS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS A little water is a sea to an ant
AFGHAN PROVERB There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
IRISH SAYINGS Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For...
W.B. YEATS They were just taller than us.
LATOYA MILLS Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will...
ED ROYCE What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reor...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Darkness is more than a shade of nightfall. It is a feeling as though there has been an eclipse not ...
ANDREW KENDALL The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried awa...
AESOP Don't set sail on someone else's star
AFRICAN PROVERB No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
AFRICAN PROVERB You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade; it will eventually be caught by the light!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
KIOWA GORDON Do not worry about the fly that falls into your palm wine, worry about the frog that may be hopping ...
SEGUN OLOGE I think there's a lever on the side of your chair that might make you appear a little taller than yo...
PAUL JOHNSON He who digs a pit for others must invariably fall into it.
ESAN MAGAZINE A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations
ESAN MAGAZINE They're both power runners. Obviously, Brown's a lot taller than Henry.
DEXTER COAKLEY Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Wisdom does not come overnight
AFRICAN PROVERB To try and to fail, is not laziness
AFRICAN PROVERB Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.
SILVIO BERLUSCONI None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing should be built taller than that icon.
EDWARD RUBIN When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA “I saw a little ant climbing my feet. I told him, “you there little ant, you are climbing an uns...
YAMIN RASHEED One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
BIBLE A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
GERMAN PROVERB Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people
JAMES HOWELL

More African Proverbs

It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia
AFRICAN PROVERBS That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERBS A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia
AFRICAN PROVERBS People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje
AFRICAN PROVERBS It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
AFRICAN PROVERBS To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS When an old man dies, a library burns down.
AFRICAN PROVERB Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his...
AFRICAN PROVERB There is no medicine to cure hatred
AFRICAN PROVERB A good thing sells itself, a bad one advertises itself
AFRICAN PROVERB It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man
AFRICAN PROVERB A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
AFRICAN PROVERB No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
AFRICAN PROVERB Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
AFRICAN PROVERB The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
AFRICAN PROVERB When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
AFRICAN PROVERB Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
AFRICAN PROVERB When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
AFRICAN PROVERB A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
AFRICAN PROVERB When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
AFRICAN PROVERB Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he i...
AFRICAN PROVERB Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
AFRICAN PROVERB Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
AFRICAN PROVERB He who does not know one thing knows another
AFRICAN PROVERB Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
AFRICAN PROVERB If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
AFRICAN PROVERB Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
AFRICAN PROVERB When deeds speak, words are nothing.
AFRICAN PROVERB There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and y...
AFRICAN PROVERB He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers
AFRICAN PROVERB It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
AFRICAN PROVERB Where water is boss, the land must obbey
AFRICAN PROVERB If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
AFRICAN PROVERB You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
AFRICAN PROVERB If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry...
AFRICAN PROVERB For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
AFRICAN PROVERB Seeing is different than being told.
AFRICAN PROVERB If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt
AFRICAN PROVERB When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears
AFRICAN PROVERB Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is...
AFRICAN PROVERB By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed
AFRICAN PROVERB Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight
AFRICAN PROVERB Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.
AFRICAN PROVERB No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
AFRICAN PROVERB Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
AFRICAN PROVERB However long the night, the dawn will break.
AFRICAN PROVERB He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
AFRICAN PROVERB God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
AFRICAN PROVERB Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
AFRICAN PROVERB Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
AFRICAN PROVERB A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
AFRICAN PROVERB A camel never sees its own hump.
AFRICAN PROVERB A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly
AFRICAN PROVERB When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong
AFRICAN PROVERB One cannot count on riches. Somalia
AFRICAN PROVERB Don't set sail on someone else's star
AFRICAN PROVERB Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda
AFRICAN PROVERB One must talk little and listen much
AFRICAN PROVERB No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
AFRICAN PROVERB When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful
AFRICAN PROVERB Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river...
AFRICAN PROVERB Wisdom does not come overnight
AFRICAN PROVERB It is better to be loved than feared
AFRICAN PROVERB He who wants to barter, usually knows what is best for him
AFRICAN PROVERB A crab does not give birth to a bird
AFRICAN PROVERB Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
AFRICAN PROVERB Singing "hallelujah" everywhere does not prove piety
AFRICAN PROVERB Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan
AFRICAN PROVERB A barber does not shave himself
AFRICAN PROVERB If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance
AFRICAN PROVERB He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass
AFRICAN PROVERB Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end always found with n...
AFRICAN PROVERB Peace is costly but it is worth the expense
AFRICAN PROVERB There is no phrase without a double meaning
AFRICAN PROVERB He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad
AFRICAN PROVERB If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips
AFRICAN PROVERB Before shooting, one must aim
AFRICAN PROVERB The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERB A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
AFRICAN PROVERB When elephant steps on a trap, no more trap
AFRICAN PROVERB One cannot count on riches. Somalia
AFRICAN PROVERB Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth
AFRICAN PROVERB The world did not make any promises
AFRICAN PROVERB There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fas...
AFRICAN PROVERB Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand
AFRICAN PROVERB He who boasts much can do little
AFRICAN PROVERB If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, s...
AFRICAN PROVERB It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion
AFRICAN PROVERB By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti, Ghana
AFRICAN PROVERB The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana
AFRICAN PROVERB He who learns, teaches
AFRICAN PROVERB The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief
AFRICAN PROVERB The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia
AFRICAN PROVERB Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers
AFRICAN PROVERB Do me a favor during the rainy season, and I shall do the same for you during the dry season
AFRICAN PROVERB The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks
AFRICAN PROVERB You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla
AFRICAN PROVERB He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kikuyu, Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERB Being happy is better than being king
AFRICAN PROVERB A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
AFRICAN PROVERB Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off
AFRICAN PROVERB When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: "Come here
AFRICAN PROVERB A word uttered cannot be taken back
AFRICAN PROVERB We start as fools and become wise through experience
AFRICAN PROVERB A comb becomes bad when it hurts you
AFRICAN PROVERB Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole
AFRICAN PROVERB If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
AFRICAN PROVERB Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them
AFRICAN PROVERB When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled
AFRICAN PROVERB Poverty is slavery (Somalia)
AFRICAN PROVERB It takes a village to raise a child.
AFRICAN PROVERB The chicken is never declared in the court of hawks. - Cape Coast, Ghana
AFRICAN PROVERB The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way
AFRICAN PROVERB When making a fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone
AFRICAN PROVERB He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense
AFRICAN PROVERB Sitting is being crippled
AFRICAN PROVERB A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake
AFRICAN PROVERB Tears are best dried with your own hand
AFRICAN PROVERB When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB The best sauce is cooked in an old pan
AFRICAN PROVERB Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant
AFRICAN PROVERB When the music changes, so does the dance
AFRICAN PROVERB The frog does not run in the daytime for nothing. - Igbo, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERB when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong
AFRICAN PROVERB Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends
AFRICAN PROVERB Hold a true friend with both hands
AFRICAN PROVERB The sun does not forget a village just because it is small
AFRICAN PROVERB The fool speaks, the wise man listens
AFRICAN PROVERB To try and to fail, is not laziness
AFRICAN PROVERB Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth
AFRICAN PROVERB By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree
AFRICAN PROVERB harry harry bird lays one egg
AFRICAN PROVERB Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle
AFRICAN PROVERB If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
AFRICAN PROVERB Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die
AFRICAN PROVERB One cannot both feast and become rich. (Ashanti tribe)
AFRICAN PROVERB One cannot both feast and become rich. Ashanti tribe
AFRICAN PROVERB The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia
AFRICAN PROVERB I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
CHINESE PROVERBS Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
CHINESE PROVERBS He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself
CHINESE PROVERBS A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
CHINESE PROVERBS A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books
CHINESE PROVERBS A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by consta...
CHINESE PROVERBS One joy shatters a hundred griefs
CHINESE PROVERBS If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are ...
CHINESE PROVERBS It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting
CHINESE PROVERBS Education is not received. It is achieved.
CHINESE PROVERBS Politeness wins the confidence of princes
CHINESE PROVERBS When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for lif...
CHINESE PROVERBS A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
CHINESE PROVERBS Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
CHINESE PROVERBS Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like
CHINESE PROVERBS Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
CHINESE PROVERBS If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
CHINESE PROVERBS To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
CHINESE PROVERBS He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool for...
CHINESE PROVERBS Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manne...
CHINESE PROVERBS Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes
CHINESE PROVERBS The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities
CHINESE PROVERBS Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others th...
CHINESE PROVERBS The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
CHINESE PROVERBS The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything...
CHINESE PROVERBS Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day
CHINESE PROVERBS The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
CHINESE PROVERBS If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
CHINESE PROVERBS There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn
CHINESE PROVERBS Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
CHINESE PROVERBS Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases
CHINESE PROVERBS To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on steppin...
CHINESE PROVERBS Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERBS Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
CHINESE PROVERBS I give thee flight without wings.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS He who shares my bread and salt is not my enemy.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS At the narrow passage, there is no brother and no friend.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
AMERICAN PROVERBS The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
AMERICAN PROVERBS It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
AMERICAN PROVERBS A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
AMERICAN PROVERBS Never swap horses crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERBS The early bird gets the worm.
AMERICAN PROVERBS If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
ARABIAN PROVERBS Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are o...
ARABIAN PROVERBS A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
ARABIAN PROVERBS The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERBS A friend is known when needed.
ARABIAN PROVERBS None but a mule denies his family.
ARABIAN PROVERBS Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
ARABIAN PROVERBS If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
ARABIAN PROVERBS Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
ARABIAN PROVERBS When danger approaches, sing to it.
ARABIAN PROVERBS If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
CHINESE PROVERBS If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the qu...
CHINESE PROVERBS Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.
CHINESE PROVERBS