God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now
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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 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.
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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
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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
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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
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AFRICAN PROVERB He who learns, teaches
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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
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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
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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 Loose lips sink ships
AMERICAN PROVERB A mill cannot grind with water that is past.
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't cry over spilled milk
AMERICAN PROVERB Feed a cold; starve a fever
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
AMERICAN PROVERB Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
AMERICAN PROVERB When it rains, it pours
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't hide your light under a bushel
AMERICAN PROVERB Ignorance is bliss
AMERICAN PROVERB Always count the cost.
AMERICAN PROVERB There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
AMERICAN PROVERB The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB The best things in life are free.
AMERICAN PROVERB Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
AMERICAN PROVERB You don't put robbers to work in a bank
AMERICAN PROVERB A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
AMERICAN PROVERB The wish is the father of the deed
AMERICAN PROVERB Cunning men deal in generalizations.
AMERICAN PROVERB Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
AMERICAN PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
AMERICAN PROVERB Variety is the spice of life
AMERICAN PROVERB It's never over till it's over
AMERICAN PROVERB If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
AMERICAN PROVERB A clear conscience is a good pillow.
AMERICAN PROVERB Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
AMERICAN PROVERB Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
AMERICAN PROVERB You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too
AMERICAN PROVERB If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you look back, you'll soon be going that way.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's.
AMERICAN PROVERB Hope is the nurse of misery.
AMERICAN PROVERB He that lives on hope will die fasting.
AMERICAN PROVERB Each day provides its own gifts.
AMERICAN PROVERB Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
AMERICAN PROVERB Diligence is the mother of good luck.
AMERICAN PROVERB Character is what you are in the dark.
AMERICAN PROVERB Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
AMERICAN PROVERB Advice is least heeded when most needed.
AMERICAN PROVERB A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
AMERICAN PROVERB A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
AMERICAN PROVERB A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
AMERICAN PROVERB A good son makes a good husband.
AMERICAN PROVERB A contented mind is a continual feast.
AMERICAN PROVERB Never swap horses crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERB If you can't lick 'em, join 'em
AMERICAN PROVERB Too many cooks spoil the broth
AMERICAN PROVERB For want of a nail the kingdom was lost
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AMERICAN PROVERB People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
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