Wherever man goes to dwell, his character goes with him.
—African Proverb
Topics: Character
The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The unborn baby that fears criticism will never be born.
—African Proverb
Topics: Babies
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Music, Dance
You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.
—African Proverb
Topics: Absence
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
—African Proverb
Topics: Sleeping, Peace, Ambition
Blessed are those who can please themselves.
—African Proverb
Topics: Blessings
The way you bring up a child is the way it grows up.
—African Proverb
The house of the heart is never full.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
Let a wrong-doing repeat itself at least three times: the first may be an accident, the second a mistake, but the third is likely to be intentional.
—African Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
—African Proverb
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
—African Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Words, Action
If relatives help each other, what harm can be done to them?
—African Proverb
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Future, Tomorrow
If a woman gets rich she changes into a man.
—African Proverb
Topics: Change
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
To one who knows no better, a small garden is a forest.
—African Proverb
Topics: Garden
You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
—African Proverb
He who has a boss is not the master of his burden.
—African Proverb
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.
—African Proverb
Topics: War, Fighting
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
—African Proverb
Topics: Duty, Proverbs
Silence gives rise to peace and with peace comes security.
—African Proverb
Topics: Silence, Peace
By his deeds we know a man.
—African Proverb
Topics: Secrets of Success
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
—African Proverb
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
—African Proverb
Topics: Garden
A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
Keep your tents apart and your hearts together.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart, Togetherness
There is no phrase that doesn’t have a double meaning.
—African Proverb
Topics: Meaning
An axe is sharp on soft wood.
—African Proverb
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
—African Proverb
Topics: Advice
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
—African Proverb
Topics: Integrity
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.
—African Proverb
Topics: Questions, Proverbs
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
—African Proverb
Topics: Punishment
Haste has no blessing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Blessings
You cannot dance well on only one leg.
—African Proverb
Topics: Dance
Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night.
—African Proverb
To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting.
—African Proverb