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