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It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man
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A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
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No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
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The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
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When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
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When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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He who does not know one thing knows another
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
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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
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Where water is boss, the land must obbey
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
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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
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
God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, no...
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Family must look out for family.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Black people must stop acting like crabs in a barrel and work together.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
God can do anything but fail.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
A liar will steal and a thief will kill
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Life is short and full of blisters
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Jealous? Hate the game and not the player.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Love don't love nobody.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Money talks - everything else walks
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Once you go Black, you never go back.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
If you'll lie you'll steal and if you'll steal you'll kill.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
One monkey don't stop no show!
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
Mama's baby...Papa's maybe.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
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
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
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
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
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB
To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB
The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB
Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB
From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB
Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB
Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB
All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB
Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB
A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB
Silence implies consent.
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The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB
A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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