If a snake bites your neighbor, you too are in danger.
—African Proverb
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
—African Proverb
Topics: Past and Present, Tomorrow
You can’t look into a bottle with both eyes at the same time.
—African Proverb
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
—African Proverb
Topics: Lies
When there is no moon, you go by the stars.
—African Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
—African Proverb
An axe is sharp on soft wood.
—African Proverb
A fault confessed is half redressed.
—African Proverb
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
—African Proverb
If you chase two hares one will escape.
—African Proverb
If you destroy a bridge be sure you can swim.
—African Proverb
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
—African Proverb
Choose your neighbor before you buy your house.
—African Proverb
Better to stumble with the toe than with the tongue.
—African Proverb
The path is made by walking.
—African Proverb
Hate has no medicine.
—African Proverb
When poverty crosses the threshold love flies out the window.
—African Proverb
Topics: Poverty
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow.
—African Proverb
Topics: Rain
A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
—African Proverb
Topics: Peace
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
—African Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Proverbs, Perseverance, Persistence
The tongue is harder than the stick.
—African Proverb
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
A good case is not difficult to state.
—African Proverb
The death of many is not wailed.
—African Proverb
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
—African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
—African Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Silence is talk too.
—African Proverb
Ashes fly back in the face of him that throws them.
—African Proverb
Sorrow doesn’t kill—reckless joy does.
—African Proverb
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
—African Proverb