It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. - Ethiopia


African Proverbs

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More 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
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