When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
—African Proverb
He who has an egg in his pocket does not dance.
—African Proverb
Topics: Dance
A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
—African Proverb
Topics: Peace
It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion.
—African Proverb
Topics: Solitude
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
—African Proverb
Topics: Babies
Evil knows where evil sleeps.
—African Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
—African Proverb
Topics: Acceptance
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Words, Action
You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.
—African Proverb
Topics: Absence
To try and to fail, is not laziness
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Laziness
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
—African Proverb
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
Events follow one another like the days of the week.
—African Proverb
Topics: Follow, Events
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
—African Proverb
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
The night is the king of the shadows.
—African Proverb
Topics: Kings
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Live patiently in the world; know that those who hate you are more numerous than those who love you.
—African Proverb
Topics: Patience
Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
—African Proverb
Topics: Patience
He who does not know one thing knows another
—African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
To deny God’s existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The iron never takes advice from the hammer.
—African Proverb
Topics: Advice
Proverbs are the children of experience.
—African Proverb
Topics: Experience
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.
—African Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Fools, Water, Foolishness
The death of many is not wailed.
—African Proverb
The chicken also knows when it’s morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.
—African Proverb
Topics: Morning
A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend.
—African Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
—African Proverb
Topics: Garden
If you’re going home, you don’t get wet.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
—African Proverb
Topics: Love